TOP 20 CONCERT TOURS - 2012

1. (2) Madonna; $3,465,640; $160.64.

2. (3) Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band; $1,362,627; $93.95.

3. (4) Justin Bieber; $1,177,615; $74.59.

4. (5) Dave Matthews Band; $967,758; $73.76.

5. (6) Neil Young & Crazy Horse; $943,026; $94.00.

6. (7) The Who; $845,015; $85.86.

7. (8) Rush; $831,978; $82.21.

8. (9) Leonard Cohen; $804,309; $100.16.

9. (10) Red Hot Chili Peppers; $716,382; $60.53.

10. (11) Zac Brown Band; $624,017; $56.97.

11. (12) Trans-Siberian Orchestra; $568,771; $51.47.

12. (13) Carrie Underwood; $535,017; $58.50.

13. (14) Bob Dylan; $467,504; $77.77.

14. (15) Eric Church; $309,161; $40.27.

15. (17) Jeff Dunham; $308,952; $58.16.

16. (20) Tobymac; $163,114; $27.40.

17. (18) The Moody Blues; $160,360; $68.27.

18. (19) Wiz Khalifa; $156,077; $41.83.

19. (New) Bassnectar; $144,666; $39.03.

20. (New) "So You Think You Can Dance"; $135,972; $56.66.



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Konur og fjármál

Ben was a single guy living at home with his father and working in the family business.

When he found out he was going to inherit a fortune when his sickly father died, he decided he needed to find a wife with whom to share his fortune.

One evening, at an investment meeting, he spotted the most beautiful woman he had ever seen.

Her natural beauty took his breath away."I may look like just an ordinary guy," he said to her, "But in just a few years my father will die and I will inherit $200 million".

"Impressed, the woman asked for his business card and three days later, she became his stepmother.

Women are so much better at financial planning than men.

Forbes.com’s kynnir hæst launuðustu hjónakornin í Hollywood:

 

1. Beyonce Knowles and Jay-Z ($122 million)

2. Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart ($69 million)

3. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie ($55 million)

4. Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith ($48 million)

5. David and Victoria Beckham ($46 million)

6. Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi ($36 million)

7. Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson ($35.5 million)

8. Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy ($34 million)

9. Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes ($33.5 million)

10. Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow ($33 million)

Þessi kona kann að spara

The World’s 25 Most Valuable Soccer Teams

1 Value of team based on past transactions and current stadium deals (unless new stadium is pending) without deduction for debt.
2Includes stadium debt.
3Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
NM: Not Meaningful.
Sources: Deloitte and Touche; company documents; Forbes.

 

Teams by country.:

England: 9
Germany: 6
Italy: 4
Spain: 2
France: 2
Scotland: 2

Three things:

i. Congratulations to Manchester United, who were met with this honor by news that even with a record turnover and two trophies last year, their debt is still ’soaring’. Now at a solid £700m. Or, to keep this in dollar terms, $1.02 billion.

Something says that top spot doesn’t quite tell the whole story.
ii. The Prem will tank eventually. It’s inevitable and not even the 39th game can don a shiny enough cape to save the day.
iii. Spain and Italy had better stop worrying about England and start looking back towards Germany, where the smart buck would say the Bundesliga is about to make it a Big Four.

Kanye West Louis Vuitton Sneakers Prices $800- $1,200 Per Pair

 

Hluthafafundur Disney's vekur mikla athygli

Today is Disney's annual shareholders meeting being held in Northern California where Pixar is located. And we know from past experience they can be an ornery bunch especially when the stock is down 47% from a year ago. (Remember, they targeted Michael Eisner, almost gave him a No Confidence vote, which basically convinced him to resign). Now the Mouse House is under fire again -- for giving Bob Iger a "Golden Coffin". No, that isn't a typo. There are Golden Parachutes (every bigwig gets those). Golden Retirement Packages (reserved for MVPs like Peter Chernin and Jack Welch). Now Golden Coffins, where CEOs get paid even after they die.

And it stinks like a rotting corpse.

The financial media made much of the Golden Coffin given Comcast chief Brian Roberts: a $47.5 million bonus if he dies on the job. (The check would go to his heirs, of course.) There's also $13.2 million in continuing pay, plus restricted stock, for a total post-death payout of $75 million. Comcast claims the continued bonus and pay for five years after Roberts' death offsets the lack of a company-funded retirement plan worth tens of millions of dollars.

Now it's come out that Disney has promised to keep paying CEO Robert Iger's salary for three years if he dies before leaving his job. His estate will get $4.5 million upon his death. "Pay is supposed to be for performance," Cornish Hitchcock, a lawyer who crafts shareholder proposals filed by Amalgamated Bank LongView Funds, complained to MSN Money columnist Michael Brush. "If an executive is dead, you are not getting performance."

Yet Brush says "Golden Coffins" aren't rare. In 2006, at least 17% of Fortune 100 companies said their CEOs were entitled to death benefits, according to one executive compensation research firm. "Companies defend these deals as a kind of life insurance. Disney, for example, explains that death benefits 'can be an important inducement to attract and retain executives who seek to provide economic security for their families in the event of their death.' " Brush writes.

"But consider what these CEOs earn while alive: Comcast's Roberts got pay, bonus and incentive stock worth $46.8 million over two years (2006 and 2007), according to the company, and he reaped $22.5 million by exercising stock options last year. His heirs would also get $223 million from a life insurance policy on which the company pays premiums.

"Iger made $58.2 million in pay, bonus, options and incentive stock over two years (2007 and 2008), according to company reports, and he has a pension plan that was recently worth $8 million. Does he really need a $4.5 million death benefit? Maybe that's why Disney recently agreed to stop offering death benefits to newly hired execs."

Here's more on the issues behind today's Disney annual shareholder meeting from CNBC's Julia Boorstin in a very well done scene-

Ráðherrar beðnir að redda Jóni láni - ( Glanni Glæpur strikes again )

Glanni Glæpur strikes again

Fimm ráðherrar drógust inn í afgreiðslu láns sem Icelandic Glacial hafði óskað eftir hjá íslenskum banka í lok síðasta árs. Ólafur M. Magnússon, forstjóri Mjólku, segir sögu um sms-skeyti og símtal sem augljóslega voru ætluð ráðherra en komust í hans hendur fyrir tilviljun. Þau bera merki þess að pólitísk afskipti séu á leið inn bankastarfsemina á nýjan leik hér á landi.

Samband var haft við fimm ráðherra fráfarandi ríkisstjórnar til þess að liðka fyrir láni til Icelandic Glacial, vatnsátöppunarfyrirtækis Jóns Ólafssonar í lok síðasta árs. Þetta fullyrðir Ólafur M. Magnússon, forstjóri Mjólku, sem fyrir tilviljun fékk sms-skeyti og síðar símtal fyrir mistök sem gaf þetta til kynna. Sjálfur hefur Ólafur ekkert út á aðferðir fyrirtækja að setja við að bjarga sér, en fordæmir við afturhvarf til pólitískrar fyrirgreiðslu ríkisbankanna.

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