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• Debt ceiling agreement was travesty, not real compromise: The recently passed and signed last-minute debt ceiling deal proved to be a real travesty, NOT a real compromise. Compromise implies that both sides gain something they wanted or needed, [...]
• Is there any way to re-elect President Clinton? He understands economics: Is there any way we might sort of “side step” the presidential term limits amendment and run Bill Clinton for president again? Please? He seems to be one of the [...]
• Worldwide financial crises turn people toward gold: I suppose it’s no secret that, in times of financial crisis, people turn away from negotiable currency and various sorts of stocks and bonds toward good old-fashioned precious metals. Not [...]
• Home repairs offer harsh distraction from news, newspapers: Sometimes I sit here trying to keep informed and make at least somewhat intelligent comments about “the news” — then sometimes I just get, should we say, distracted by home [...]
• Common sense helps you reduce identity theft risks: You don’t have to be paranoid to think someone’s out to get you — you just have to live in our credit-oriented world and read the daily accounts online and [...]
• Even in real estate hard-times, dream home raffles aid good causes: It’s exciting to know that, even in real estate hard-times, “dream home raffles” for charity generate aid for good causes. We’re having a “Dream Home raffle” to benefit St. Jude’s [...]
• Is the world filled with people who only know how to PANIC at the news?: Is the world really filled with people who only know how to react with panic when they read or hear the news? I ask because everything negative or dangerous going [...]
• More from the recession front lines: Even luxury car sales are declining: Alas, economic hard times are even hitting luxury car manufacturers and sales, according to an online article I read recently at a Tampa Bay area newspaper website. (You remember newspapers, [...]
• Economic crunch hurting, or are you flying under the radar so far?: So, is the economic crunch hurting you and/or your family, or are you flying under the radar so far? Certainly the state of the economy here in the U.S. and [...]
• Helpful information about why, how The Fed is handling economic crises: The CBS show “60 minutes” has a great interview and feature going on as I write this with Federal Reserve Chairman Bernanke. Very revealing, and it helps understand why the [...]
• Here’s hoping the stimulus plan will help the economy: Here’s hoping that gigantic federal stimulus plan will help the economy. Despite what Rush Limbaugh and others have said, it really is in the best interest of us all to [...]
• What, really, does the economy hold in store for us in 2009?: Give me your best guess — will the economy improve significantly in the U.S. and worldwide in the coming new year? I really don’t know, either. I spent some time [...]
• Biggest economic need in U.S. — replace panic with OPTIMISM: I’ve never been the sort of person who thought problems would just go away if I ignore them, but I’m starting to think a crucial ingredient that we MUST get [...]
• What, really, is the best treatment for our economic crises?: With all the talk of the failed bailout, someone needs to ask the question — What, really, is the best treatment for our economic crises? In my family, someone very [...]
• Certainly interesting to hear responses to failure of ‘bailout’ bill: I must say, watching a lot of CNN reports yesterday and today, that it’s certainly interesting to hear the many responses to the failure of that economic “bailout” bill. Many [...]
• Boneheads in Congress abandoned their leadership roles: It’s one thing for us average-know-nothing-much-about-economics Americans to resist a $700+ billion economic bailout plan. It’s a different matter for those self-serving boneheads we call Congressmen and Congresswomen to miss [...]
• Go ahead, I dare you — explain how the stock markets really work: The U.S. stock markets closed up yesterday. They remain, at this point in the late morning where I live, on a healthy uptrend. But yesterday the only economic news I [...]
• Have you spent your economic stimulus money before you’ve even gotten it?: A friend just sent me a Private Message on a forum I belong to, asking me whether I thought we were heading perhaps into another “Great Depression.” (For you youngsters [...]
• Call it a recession or not — it’s starting to really hurt people, isn’t it?: I have only one very small investment in stocks. In what’s left of a dividend reinvestment plan I wanted to try a couple of decades ago, I still own just [...]
• ‘Retail therapy’ to cure the blues? The government’s relying on you to spend: I guess I thought people on TV and the Internet were joking when they used the phrase “retail therapy” for those people who go shopping a lot when they’re feeling [...]
• Now we’re going to have to pay the tab — Bush’s ‘tax-cut-and-spend’ legacy: The president submitted a $3 trillion budget to Congress yesterday which, I’m told, cuts domestic spending and boosts defense spending. Not really a big surprise, is it, that a Republican [...]
• Ouch! Lost jobs for January could be another sign of U.S. going into recession: Remember that R-word none of us wants to utter regarding the U.S. economy? We just got another disturbing sign it could be right around the corner — the Labor Department [...]
• Will the ‘free money’ deal fall apart in the Senate? Will it all come too late? We’ll see: Some of the more politically astute out there in blogging land are starting to get restless — they’re realizing yesterday’s happy news about the tax rebates/stipends/”free money” checks loudly trumpeted [...]
• Low-life scum people out there are already starting tax rebate scams: Just heard on our local television news this evening that the low-life scum people out there who prey on others are already cranking up the scams regarding the prospective tax [...]