by Mac Slavo | Dec 10, 2009 | Headline News
In a sign of the times, a recent survey indicates that if consumers had to come up with emergency funds, they’d be hard-pressed to do so. Half of Consumers Surveyed Can’t Come up With $2,000: Almost half (46%) of 2,148 consumers surveyed recently said they...
by Mac Slavo | Dec 9, 2009 | Forecasting, Headline News
President Obama spoke about the economy at the Brookings Institution. “We acted to get lending flowing again, so businesses could get loans to buy equipment and ordinary Americans could get financing to buy homes and cars, to go to college, and to start or run...
by Mac Slavo | Dec 8, 2009 | Headline News
Ed Yardeni of Yardeni Research has performed a Cost Benefit Analysis of Jobs Stimulus created under President Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Act: The Obama Administration is touting that their stimulus program has saved or created 640,329 jobs since...
by Mac Slavo | Dec 8, 2009 | Headline News
If you’ve ever wondered where, exactly, on the totem pole the average American citizen lies, USA Today’s Corporate employers got scarce flu vaccine should make it quite clear: When the swine flu vaccine was most scarce, health officials gave thousands of...
by Mac Slavo | Dec 7, 2009 | Headline News, Marc Faber
Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, in a speech to the Economic Club of Washington, said that it is too early to declare a lasting recovery: The Fed chief’s speech to the Economic Club of Washington made clear he thinks the economy will struggle even...
by Mac Slavo | Dec 7, 2009 | Headline News, Tom of the North
Tom of the North at Outside the (Cardboard) Box writes a humorous piece on an employment model he calls the “Twofer.” In light of recent reports about the manipulation of global warming data to push through trillion dollar agendas and mandates, the...
