What a wild roller-coaster ride the last few days and certainly the last few hours have been!
I’m just relieved that the market is closed right now because I was getting dizzy watching it.
There’s a lot of wild stuff in today’s Ten Post Round-Up. But, before we get into that, let’s see what our favorite uncle [...]
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It’s a holiday weekend and I’m looking forward to relaxing with friends over the weekend and as always for me, catching up on paperwork and things pushed aside when I spend too much time here blogging. With gas prices ever soaring, AP News reports:
As consumers began hitting the road Friday for the Memorial Day weekend, [...]
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I filled my gas tank two days ago. $3.91 a gallon for regular. How much are you paying at the pumps? AP News reports tonight that “a national survey says the average price for regular gasoline rose about 17 cents in the last two weeks.”
The average price of self-serve regular gasoline on Friday was $3.79 [...]
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Oh, the pain at the pumps. It continues to get worse. Is there no end in sight? Apparently not and consumers think it will just keep getting worse.
Americans are already paying through the nose for gasoline, and they think it’s only going to get worse.
A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll found that 94% of respondents expect [...]
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It took a small item in my January 28, 2008 issue of Business Week magazine to do it but I finally really get where John Edwards was coming from in his approach to economic issues affecting the middle class. There is nothing automatically shocking, I suppose, about the British being more affluent now than we [...]
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Patrick Healy has a piece in the N.Y. Times blog The Caucus about a press conference on the Clinton campaign plane over Arizona on Saturday night. Healy notes “one interesting comment” from the presser:
She noted that at a conversation with a small group of voters in Los Angeles Saturday morning, no one brought up the Iraq war [...]
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Last night in the Democratic debate, Hillary Clinton brought up her early work for children and poverty and referenced her job at the Children’s Defense Fund. Read: Clinton draws on New Bedford lessons.
Also referenced in last night’s debate was Barack Obama’s ties to Tony Rezko. Read more here.
Hillary Clinton is planning beyond South Carolina. She [...]
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“The American people should not have to work so hard to get leaders who will actually help them…” — Hillary Clinton
Stepping aside from the clash during last night’s debate, I’ve been thinking about the statement above from Hillary Clinton in her closing argument in the debate. American’s are struggling in this ever tumbling economy just to get by. [...]
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I’m on the run today… heading out to Clinton campaign event here in the San Fernando Valley (Los Angeles).
I haven’t been out to see any of the candidates speak as of yet, mostly due to a lack of time or interest. As I reported here a few weeks ago, I did try to get a [...]
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As an only parent with a struggling small business I’m one of those Americans who’s worried about the economy. In truth, I’ve had concerns about the economy for years now. I’ve watched small businesses like my own struggling under the Bush administration for years and now, the sh*t has truly hit the fan.
I felt that [...]
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With the economy in a tail spin, regardless of what the last vestiges of deniers want to say, Paul Krugman took a look yesterday at the economic proposals of the various candidates on both sides of the aisle. Here’s a few observations from Krugman that I’ve re-interpreted for sake of brevity:
The short McCain: “a candidate [...]
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On Friday, there were new indications “that the spiraling subprime mortgage crisis is spreading from home loans to credit cards, potentially engulfing a far broader segment of Americans.” I thought when I heard the news… Wow… they’re catching on to what we already know around here.
How bad is it? Bad enough for Treasury Secretary Henry M. [...]
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