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Vietnam's Growing Economy Bucks World Recession Trends

The developing economy of Vietnam seems to be so far defying the worldwide recession trend that is sweeping through much of the industrialized world including Asia with annual growth in the 12% range while so many other world economies slow...

Posted on November 17, 2008 12:40 PM

Can Detroit Really Be Saved? History Isn't Good

As Detroit continues to beg Washington for immediate financial aid to avoid financial collapse, and both Nancy Pelosi and President-Elect Barack Obama seem very willing to offer this aid, the fact of the matter is that the history of rescuing...

Posted on November 13, 2008 5:20 PM

Big Banks Banking On McCain

Employees of many of the major banks and other financial institutions that will benefit the most from the $700 billion dollar bailout package that John McCain voted for are also among his biggest campaign contributors by far according to FEC records.

Posted on October 30, 2008 10:09 AM

Herbert Hoover's Great Grand-Daughter Advises GOP On Economics & Politics

No figure of the last 100 years of American history has been more disgraced with causing the destruction of the American economy than Herbert Hoover, yet the GOP is employing the great grand-daughter of Hoover, Margaret Hoover, to advise the...

Posted on October 25, 2008 10:41 AM

Colin Powell's Endorsement Of Barack Obama Proves A Consensus For A Moderate Government And Foreign Policy Ready To Regain World Respect

Former Secretary Of State and Former General Colin Powell's endorsement Of Barack Obama is an important message to the nation that Barack Obama will have a centrist moderate government that is trustworthy by bringing in a wide cross-section of the...

Posted on October 19, 2008 8:39 PM

Failed Bank WAMU Pays CEO $18 Million For Just Three Weeks Of Work

The collapse and federal seizure of Seattle based Washington Mutual became the largest bank failure in American history. And CEO Alan Fishman, a Brooklyn banker who was just hired on September 7th to replace ousted CEO Kerry Killiger, will receive...

Posted on September 28, 2008 2:30 PM

Another Republican Administration, Another Economic Crisis

Wednesday night's economic panic address by Bush is only the latest example of yet another economic crisis during yet another Republican administration. The funny thing is America's #2 political party always wants to run the country, but then never seems...

Posted on September 25, 2008 11:50 AM

Home Foreclosures & The Penthouse Pet

Posted on September 22, 2008 3:04 PM

John McCain's Role In The $160.1 Billion Lincoln Savings & Loan Collapse

This morning in Green Bay, Wisconsin, John McCain, a former major figure in the 1989 Lincoln Savings & Loan Scandal and the $160.1 billion dollar collapse, with his running mate, Sarah Palin, under her own ethics investigation in her state...

Posted on September 19, 2008 1:49 PM

Will The Pro-Corporate Welfare McCain-Palin Ticket Cut Your Wages Or Benefits?

It is typical Elmer Fuddry for this wacky campaign in which McCain makes a crazy statement, then his advisors go into damage control mode. But such a goofy approach to serious economic issues should be a serious warning to the voting public that McCain may be a high economic risk to their family.

Posted on September 15, 2008 4:55 PM

Newt Gingrich's Absurd "Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less" Myths

When disgraced former Speaker Of The House, Newt Gingrich isn't using God to endorse his own ideas, he still finds some other way to generate donations, make some noise, keep his name in the news, sell books, or support his...

Posted on September 13, 2008 12:30 PM

Not Your Father's Small Car Business

General Motors announced new plans to build a new small car to adapt to the recent consumer demand for smaller more fuel efficient automobiles since gasoline prices hit such a high spike in the $4 a gallon neighborhood. The cost...

Posted on August 22, 2008 2:38 PM

Texas Oilman, T. Boone Pickens, Advances Plan To Break Foreign Oil Dependence

Normally reliable conservative Texas oilman, T. Boone Pickens, is advancing a progressive and bold, entirely realistic new plan to make the United States energy independent that is drawing praise from environmentalist organizations such as the Sierra Club. The core of...

Posted on July 15, 2008 3:52 PM

The U.S. Economic Meltdown While McCain Campaigns For Free Trade Abroad

Yesterday's bad news of the huge decline in automobile sales was yet another heartbreaking reminder of how impotent and out of step the Bush White Administration has become with management of the American economy, yet John McCain only seems to...

Posted on July 2, 2008 4:05 PM

Obama or McBush? The Choice is Clear

Barack Obama offers the change America wants. John McBush offers four more years of the same old crap.

Posted on June 11, 2008 11:00 AM

Some Conservatives Blaming Minimum Wage Earners For Biggest Unemployment Increase In 22 Years

Some conservatives are now advancing what has to be the most absurd and worst possible explanation of the root causes for the huge unemployment up-tick that was the worst in 22 years. They are unbelievably actually blaming minimum wage earners...

Posted on June 8, 2008 7:50 AM

There's No Ford In The Future For American Labor

At one time the United States had a great many automobile makes including Essex, Packard, Desoto, Franklin, Durant, DuPont and hundreds more brands. But even steel industry tycoon Henry J Kaiser proved with the failure of his Kaiser brand of...

Posted on June 4, 2008 6:00 PM

Millions Go Without Heating Oil Because Of Failed Bush War For Oil

Many Americans including the elderly and the working poor are now having to do without heating oil as a price of a barrel of oil has quadrupled from just $28 a barrel when Bush was elected in November 2000 to...

Posted on April 21, 2008 5:46 PM

Bush Administration And Toy Industry Work Together To Keep Toxic Toys In American Stores

The Bush Administration has actively worked along with lobbyists and toy industry retailer organizations to keep higher levels of toxic substances in toys sold in the United States than in the EU, and the Bush Administration has even worked with...

Posted on March 24, 2008 8:00 AM

It's the Economy, Obama

Obama talks about how he'll do it instead of what he'll do! Clinton has the experience, and the specific plan. We need to invest in our futures. We need solutions. We need Clinton.

Posted on March 17, 2008 7:30 AM

Is The Iraq War Causing The Recession?

With so many bad economic dominoes falling into place creating a perfect storm of problems for the American economy, ranging from sharply higher energy prices, inflation, an economic and real estate slowdown and a sinking American dollar, you cannot help but blame the failed 'war for oil' in Iraq as being the cornerstone that helped to trigger this latest downfall for the American economy.

Posted on February 28, 2008 1:00 PM

Manufacturers Find New Ways To Market Unsafe Sleepwear For Children

Product liability lawyers and the federal government have helped to establish strict safety standards for children's sleepwear that is fire resistant, however many large retailers are finding new ways to market cheaply made imported potentially unsafe children's sleepwear and circumvent...

Posted on February 2, 2008 9:00 AM

Bush's NRA Plan: Buy A $600 Chinese HDTV From Wal-Mart Today, Pay Interest On The National Debt To Chinese Banks For Decades

Mr. Bush has yet another brilliant plan before he leaves office: A national economic recovery act solely based on the notion that if only every family in America just had an additional $600 in tax cuts, despite the huge federal...

Posted on January 25, 2008 5:00 PM

Howard Dean on Economy and Campaign Rancor

Howard Dean, the former governor and presidential candidate who now is the chairman of the Democratic National Committee, says that the tough rhetoric in the primaries will prepare the candidates for the rough and tumble of the general election.

Posted on January 25, 2008 2:00 PM

Romney Lies his Way to Michigan Victory

Mitt "I'll tell you anything you want to hear" Romney came out on top in Michigan's primary today, which I think foreshadows more wins ahead for Barack Obama.

Posted on January 15, 2008 10:00 PM

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