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The US Could Save Billions Each Year By Switching To Electric Vehicles

Even though electric vehicles (EVs) are expensive, a recent study shows that green transportation could save the US tens of billions of dollars per year in the long run. The analysis used climate modeling and data on public health and vehicle fleets to show that EVs could prevent many premature...

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YouTube Is Worth $70 Billion On Its Own, Says BoA Analysts

“YouTube is a big asset that warrants a big valuation,” says Bank of America Merrill Lynch analyst Justin Post in a paper shared with Bloombergthis week, and boy is it a big number. According to Post and his team, the Google-owned online video giant would be worth $70 billion if valued on its own — a fraction of Google’s $370 billion market value. If it was placed in the S&P 500, only 66…

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[garik]

From Foreign Policy:

At least some of this wealth is reported to be held in offshore accounts, notably in Switzerland. But here's some bad news for Mubarak: On Feb. 1, the Swiss government passed an interesting piece of legislation that will make it much easier for countries to repatriate illictly-stolen wealth from past dictators. One of the first applications was the wealth of Haitian ex-strongman Jean-Claude Duvalier, which has now been frozen and may well return to the government in Port au Prince.