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The world of mobile payments, combined with credit cards, is growing ever crowded at the moment. Now it’s getting even more jammed, as San Francisco-centric Card.io has just stepped into the ring.  And, as some analysts predict, it will give the newly launched Google Wallet a run for its money.

It’s already been in use on the iOS system (an operating system specifically geared for Smart Phones) and has made the leap to the Android brand of Smartphone, the #1 competitor of the iPhone, which is anticipating its next big roll-out in early October.

One very appealing quality about the Card.io system is that it is a lot faster than its Google counterpart, as it allows users to bypass the more time-consumer parts of the GWallet process (such as not having to type your credit card details in each and every time, which can become something of a pain).

All a user does is hold up their credit card to the phone’s camera. From t

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Tax reform has become a central issue in the presidential primary campaign, but how do the candidates’ tax plans compare? The various proposals vary considerably in their scope and intent, and it is important that they all be judged against a standard set of principles. Fortunately, a guide to those principles is now available from the Tax Foundation. 

The new study by Will McBride, Tax Foundation Fiscal Fact No. 286, “How to Judge a Tax Plan,” lays out the principles of sound tax policy and how to apply them to the tax reform ideas being put forward by the likes of Mitt Romney, Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, and the rest of the presedential primary hopefuls.

Background information on the tax proposals of the current candidates is available on the Tax Foundation’s Presidential Candidate Tax Plan Comparison. Users can compare the plans side by side and click through to original source documents.

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Falling living standards and the looming return to recession has failed to dent the British public’s sunny disposition, according to the results of David Cameron’s “happiness index”.

The poll found around three-quarters of adults in the UK are satisfied with their lives despite the continuing economic gloom.

The survey of 4,200 people asked participants to rank how happy or anxious they felt on the previous day on a scale from nought to ten. Just over one in every four respondents scored seven or more out of ten for happiness. The remaining one in four felt anxious.

Seventy six percent of people were estimated to have a rating of seven out ten or more when asked “how satisfied are you with your life nowadays”. When asked,

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