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1. S&P downgrade may act as a stimulus
(Money/Economy)

... fall, thereby raising the costs of imports, including gasoline. Coupled with weak real estate prices, this means small business should be braced for tough times. However, everything is not gloom and ...

2. How to create American jobs
(Opinion/Commentary)

... higher gasoline prices? America, land of the free – Who are we kidding? Congratulations – New Jersey ranks among the deadbeats for pension funding Do hedge fund managers deserve a lower tax rate? ...

3. President Obama fails in shortsighted attempt to lower gas prices
(Opinion/Commentary)

... especially unnecessary because gasoline prices had been dropping on their own, without any sort of market intervention by opportunistic politicians. The president should have noticed at the time of his ...

4. A naughty thought about U.S. corporate stock buybacks
(Opinion/Commentary)

... most money from higher gasoline prices? America, land of the free – Who are we kidding? Congratulations – New Jersey ranks among the deadbeats for pension funding Do hedge fund managers deserve a ...

5. Why should we care about Greece’s problems?
(World/International)

...  ALSO BY ROY NERSESIAN A new Federal Mathematics Competency Test OPEC unrest: Who makes the most money from higher gasoline prices? America, land of the free – Who are we kidding? Congratulations ...

6. Budget time in New Jersey shows why there should be term limits for state lawmakers
(Opinion/Commentary)

... without having to be taxed, e.g., food, clothing, shelter, cable, cell phone, gasoline, vacations, etc. From a practical perspective, think of all the money that would be saved by eliminating state, county ...

7. A new Federal Mathematics Competency Test
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  OPEC unrest: Who makes the most money from higher gasoline prices? America, land of the free – Who are we kidding? Congratulations – New Jersey ranks among the deadbeats for pension funding Do ...

8. Viva Riva! movie review: A lot of firsts for crime thriller
(Entertainment/Movies)

... return of Riva (Patsha Bay Mukuna) to his hometown of Kinshasa with a truckload of stolen gasoline. The city is experiencing a severe shortage, so Riva fully expects to make a fortune. He leaves the truck ...

9. Taxes
(Comments/Unsorted comments)

How do you arrive at $0.50/gallon in highway taxes? Gasoline is taxed at $0.184/gallon by the federal government and diesel is $0.244/gallon. So the excise taxes are about 1/2 what you claim them to ...

10. OPEC unrest: Who makes the most money from higher gasoline prices?
(World/International)

... New Jersey is a low-tax state as far as gasoline taxes are concerned at 10 cents per gallon. Other states are much more aggressive such as Connecticut and New York that tax about 25 cents per gallon plus ...

11. Cell phones and cancer: Now on list of risks
(Health/Healthquest)

... our daily lives? The study from WHO put cell phones on a list of possible carcinogens that includes DDT and exhaust from gasoline engines. And working as a hairdresser is considered riskier than using ...

12. Mega Millions and Powerball tickets online?
(Money/Economy)

... conveniences. The proposed bill has been amended to redistribute up to 5 percent of online sales among lottery agents. In January, Sal Risalvato, executive director of the New Jersey Gasoline, Convenience ...

13. America, land of the free – Who are we kidding?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... tax mileage on cars. The rationale is that fuel-efficient cars don’t pay as much as a gas guzzling SUV in gasoline taxes on a mileage basis. So a mileage tax is being proposed to punish those who do the ...

14. Gas saving tips for Memorial Day in New Jersey
(Money/Economy)

... reduced that to one trip a week and traded her Mercedes-Benz, which ran on premium gasoline, for a compact car. The rising price of fuel has made many people like Yesnia reconsider their holiday driving ...

15. 2011: A Commencement Oddity
(Life/Style)

... gasoline prices were going through the roof. But we pressed on, and managed to graduate. And combining our classroom learning with all of our life’s experiences, over the years we gained a lot of valuable ...

16. 8-year-old injected with Botox prompts legislation
(N.J./State)

... will consider legislation (A-3133) to change New Jersey law to allow retailers to offer promotional items, coupons or discounts to consumers purchasing gasoline. It will meet at 2 p.m. The Health and ...

17. Are we headed for a treasury default apocalypse?
(Money/Economy)

... on the scale required could actually be seen as trying to extinguish a fire with gasoline. The intervention would be viewed as compounding the inflation problem with a new flood of dollars pushing inflation ...

18. Congratulations – New Jersey ranks among the deadbeats for pension funding
(Opinion/Commentary)

...  The last nail in the U.S. coffin U.S. debt: Like watching a train wreck in slow motion Did you notice higher gasoline prices? Globalization creates jobs for China and not for U.S. Papering ...

19. Could summer gas prices in N.J. see a drop?
(Money/Economy)

... prices are the highest at $4.20 a gallon. Recent poll data from the Washington Post says that one out of three Americans blame greed, investors, and the oil companies for continued high gasoline prices. ...

20. Do hedge fund managers deserve a lower tax rate?
(Opinion/Commentary)

... for a century at around $2 per barrel (read 25 cents or less for a gallon of gasoline) in current dollars. Back when the dollar was pegged to the value of gold and the British pound and other currencies ...