Today, more than fifty per cent of U.S. residents are single, nearly a third of all households have just one resident, and five million adults younger than thirty-five live alone.
If Henry Kissinger is right, U.S.-China relations are the single most important bilateral relationship, he said.
The central planners in Washington must be feeling pretty good about themselves these days and the way in which they are single-handedly re-shaping the U.S. auto industry.
Thanks to him and Tesla, unlike even five years ago, there are now hundreds of car makers who are producing electric cars, including every single major U.S. company.
What this new architecture design highlights is the fact that single persons are now the largest segment of the U.S. population.
In every single big U.S. city rents are projected to rise faster than inflation in 2011, from 3% in some cities to 10% in others.
According to a 2008 survey by the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 9.8 million single mothers versus 1.8 million single fathers.
Peter Merrill, a principal at the accounting firm of PriceWaterhouseCoopers, argues that the shift to pass-through companies may be the single most important reason why U.S. corporate tax revenues are so low.
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Given that Karzai has not indicted a single senior official of his own government, U.S. officials are skeptical that he will act without overt American pressure.
Volpon said that single-digit policy rates in Brazil will not be permanent like they are in the U.S.. This would require further policy changes to bring the neutral rate even lower.
Increasingly, U.S. policymakers are looking at a more diverse diplomacy that no longer seeks to pick a single winner (and acknowledges silently that the U.S. may no longer be powerful enough to do so), but that attempts to encourage multiple players to prevent the Game being lost.
They enjoy a much lower rate, in the single digits in countries like Japan and UK, where corporate tax rates are similar to that in the U.S., with American companies falling in the middle of the two.
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