Shady foreigners propping up NY’s real estate market
Fortune.com - By Chris Matthews - 9 February, 2015 Pedestrians pass in front of the Time Warner Center building at Columbus Circle in New York on January 24, 2014. Photograph by Ron Antonelli — Bloomberg via Getty Images U.S. corporate law makes it easy for foreigners to stash their wealth stateside. In a country beset by...
China’s mass underground eviction
The windowless underground shelters became tiny apartments for many people Beijing's government has evicted more than 120,000 people living in the city's disused air-raid shelters, it's reported. Authorities will begin redeveloping the spaces this year, after spending three years clearing people out of makeshift underground...
Check your ez-link fare for over-deduction
My wife and I, both seniors, take public buses all the time. Since the increase in bus fares last April, we have had to check our ez-link fare deductions every time, as we have encountered many instances of over-deductions. [Ed. By "over-deduction", the author means "over-charging".] Each time, it would be 5 cents to 7 cents...
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