Tag: business
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October 31, 2009 11:18 AM EDT --
I watched Mr. James Galbraith (the younger) on Bill Moyers' Journal, on PBS last night. He said that we should offer early retirement to guys like me.
The youth of today, he says, need to be employed. . . .
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November 06, 2009 06:42 PM EST --
I am calling for the impeachment, or recall, or whatever you call it, to yank these Congressional Hispanic Caucus idiots out of the US Congress, and ban them from ever setting foot in it again.
These . . .
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August 07, 2008 11:50 AM EDT --
Cirque du Soleil (Circus of the Sun), founded in 1984, and based in Montreal provides some of the most unique shows available on the stage (and in the tent) today. Each show has its . . .
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March 12, 2009 09:30 AM EDT --
There was an article a few days ago bemoaning the fact that all the news is negative.
I say there is positive news out there. I see it often. I'm not talking about fluff pieces about kittens . . .
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November 17, 2008 08:25 PM EST --
Most of the economy was farm related at one time in our past. Today, the farm bill that passed last year to bolster the income of corporate farms owned by millionaires, puts farming squarely into the category . . .
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February 26, 2009 10:02 AM EST --
In an era of reduced consumer spending, it would seem obvious for businesses to be extra attentive to customer service and customer satisfaction. In my experience, that has simply not been the case. . . .
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March 13, 2009 09:28 AM EDT --
We are still in a recession, but economic downturns have a way of forcing change.
Today's stories of positive news:
1.) Swiss banks will begin to cooperate in criminal investigations. The . . .
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September 23, 2008 01:52 AM EDT --
Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations.
Of those, 47 are U.S.-based.
The overall share of federal taxes paid by U.S. corporations is now less than 10 percent, down from 21 . . .
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August 01, 2008 11:43 AM EDT --
As the economic cycle that is being called stagflation plays itself out in the United States, Europe and elsewhere, the question that rises to the surface is: Are we being set up for a fall of mega-economic . . .
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September 30, 2008 07:05 AM EDT --
The stock market will likely open strong today, and well it should. Yesterday, the market lost one trillion dollars in value, and bloodbaths like that have been historical buying opportunities. . . .
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February 16, 2009 04:34 PM EST --
There are cycles to the economy, and a world-wide depression seems to be one of them, but a large middle class is a doubtful part of the cycle.
The end of WWII, women in the workforce, the baby boom, . . .
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March 30, 2009 10:53 PM EDT --
Okay, we have had one day to soak up the news that Rick Wagoner is resigning as head of GM, apparently pushed by Obama. The reaction has come from both sides of the political spectrum. GM employees: . . .
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September 22, 2008 09:02 PM EDT --
"I am not a Democrat who believes that we can or should defend every government program just because it's there," Obama said at a rally in Green Bay. "We will fire government managers . . .
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September 28, 2008 11:49 AM EDT --
The strange bedfellows of far left activists, and House Republicans took on bailouts this weekend, with all the expected results. After doubling the size and complexity of the bill every couple of hours, . . .
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March 20, 2009 05:44 PM EDT --
Pension plans. A search for "pension bailouts" gets 1,910,000 hits. Now normally, the dollar ammounts involved here would get most peoples attention, and any retirement plan that has this much . . .
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September 16, 2008 08:34 PM EDT --
Economic conditions in America - if not the world - might be likened to a fish-tailing trailer hooked to a Volkswagen.
I learned about the science of fish-tailing the hard way one day as I sped down . . .
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September 21, 2009 02:09 PM EDT --
That's right. It pays to be green. According to a story by Fiona Harvey published in the September 18, 2009 Financial Times (the London version of the Wall Street Journal), "[b]usinesses selling low-carbon . . .
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February 27, 2009 05:54 PM EST --
The money spent on the TROUBLED ASSET RELIEF PROGRAM (TARP) has remained a hot button issue.
Do you want to know if your bank or other banks in your area received funds?
Check the list from . . .
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August 09, 2008 12:39 PM EDT --
We the people need to ask the candidates the right questions and get their commitment to the answers. What got the nation into the mess we are in right now?
Iraq could have . . .
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September 20, 2008 02:22 PM EDT --
A do nothing Congress is by definition a shortage of centrists. In the 1970's, a quarter of Congress were aisle-crossing centrists, there is no shortcut to a "do something" congress other . . .
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