Detroit—The city of Detroit filed the largest municipal bankruptcy case in U.S. history Thursday afternoon, culminating a decades-long slide that transformed the nation’s iconic industrial town into a model of urban decline crippled by population loss, a dwindling tax base and financial problems.
The 16-page petition was filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Detroit.
Detroit is 18.5 billion dollars in debt.
#1. Jay-Z – Magna Carta Holy Grail – 527,000 (527,000)
#2. Ciara – Ciara – 58,000 (58,000)
#3. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 39,000 (478,000)
#6. Kanye West – Yeezus – 29,000 (459,000)
#7. Wale – The Gifted – 28,000 (237,000)
#10. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 22,000 (913,000)
#24. Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off – 10,000 (148,000)
#40. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 7,400 (966,000)
#50. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 6,200 (517,000)
#164. Tony Touch – The Piece Maker 3 (Return Of The 50 MC’s) – 2,400 (2,400)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
A dramatic thriller based on real events, THE FIFTH ESTATE reveals the quest to expose the deceptions and corruptions of power that turned an Internet upstart into the 21st century’s most fiercely debated organization.
McDonald’s has partnered with Visa to make a website dedicated to showing its employees how to properly budget their peasant salaries. However, what it actually does is illustrate the fact that it is nearly impossible to get by on minimum wage in America as shown in this “example” budget chart:
An eMarketer report predicts that mobile payments in the United States will break the $1 billion barrier this year and then hit $58 billion by 2017.
The eMarketer study defines such payments as “transactions for goods or services made by scanning, tapping, swiping or checking in with a mobile phone at the point of sale.” They differ from mobile commerce, which is defined as purchasing items on a mobile device. The researcher predicts mobile commerce sales will hit $38.4 billion this year.
#1. J. Cole – Born Sinner – 58,000 (439,000)
#2. Wale – The Gifted – 50,000 (208,000)
#3. Kanye West – Yeezus – 39,000 (431,000)
#8. Macklemore & Ryan Lewis – The Heist – 24,000 (890,000)
#23. Mac Miller – Watching Movies With The Sound Off – 13,000 (138,000)
#24. Pretty Lights – Color Map Of The Sun – 13,000 (13,000)
#32. Kendrick Lamar – good kid, m.A.A.d city – 10,000 (959,000)
#42. Lil Wayne – I Am Not A Human Being II – 7,600 (511,000)
#107. Starlito – Cold Turkey – 3,800 (3,800)
#193. Jay-Z – The Black Album – 2,500 (3,516,000)
* data comes from Nielsen Soundscan, rounded to nearest thousandth for units above 10,000, nearest hundredth for units below 10,000.
The average rent for an apartment in New York City (excluding Staten Island) is $3,017 a month. This is the first time the average rent has exceeded $3,000.
“The average New York rent was more than 50 percent higher than second-place San Francisco, where rent grew 1.1 percent from the first quarter to $1,998.82,” reports Reuters. “Oklahoma City was the cheapest market, at an average of $571.03 a month, up 0.6 percent
Releases Sept 17, 2013
Detroit is a place that attracts a certain type of individual. Someone that’s both tough and independent.
That’s especially true for the women who have chosen to stake their claim in one of the nation’s most complicated cities. Fearless, talented, and ambitious, these women are shaping Detroit’s future.
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