“The competitiveness that I have on the floor carries over to athletics, which is an area I usually reign supreme in,” Craig Capurso, an options and derivatives trader at the New York Mercantile Exchange, told The Observer. “It is man versus man out here, and the better man will win.”
It was Sunday morning, and Read More
Who wants to spend tax money on new roads and bridges and infrastructure? Not the U.S.! We hate taxes here, after all.
The U.S. slowed down to from fifth to 24th in a ranking of infrastructure quality on a global level, according to a report released by the Council of Foreign Relations. And quality is not the only thing slowing down. Time and fuel wasted in traffic congestion cost the country $101 billion—or $713 per commuter in 2010. The percentage of economic growth in 2011 would have been .2 percentage points higher had the necessary infrastructure maintenance and improvements been made, according to the report, which was the first first installment of the Renewing America Report and Scorecard series. Read More
