Economics
Washington Post Leaders Question Gasoline Prices Hastert, Frist to Ask Bush for Probe Congressional leaders yesterday planned to ask President Bush to order investigations into possible price gouging by oil companies as crude oil prices hit new highs on world markets and average gasoline prices in the nation’s capital blew through the $3-a-gallon mark. House […]
Yahoo First-Quarter Profit Drops 22 Percent to $159.6 Million but Meets Analysts’ Expectations It wasn’t an apples-to-apples comparison because of new rules requiring companies to recognize the costs of their employee stock options. The change, imposed over strident protests from Silicon Valley, is taking an especially large bite from the profits of Yahoo and other […]
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Hillary Clinton, April 10 “The economy is working really well for many people. But if you look just over the horizon and below the surface there are some troubling issues.” Clinton said, “the rich are getting richer, everybody else is marching in place” and ” don’t think that’s good for us.” Is that so Hillary? […]
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from Harry Domash at MSN Money, A top blogger’s market-beating strategy Charles Kirk consistently scores far above the market by finding fundamentally strong stocks with weak, but improving, stock charts… Kirk’s blog caught Barron’s attention because his picks have soundly beaten the market since he started blogging in 2000. So who is this guy? You […]
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Have you tried BizzyBlog’s AM Coffee? It is a daily collection commentary with links to selected articles and blog posts on everything from economics to foreign policy and the media. He is also all over Ohio politics. It sounds like an interesting state politically, but compared to what we are dealing with in Mass., well, […]
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Via Don Luskin at Poor and Stupid, In response to criticism about a massive new pork project slipped into the emergency Iraq/Katrina appropriations bills yesterday, Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) lashed out at anti-pork bloggers and activists. â??I’ll just say this about the so-called porkbusters. I’m getting damn tired of hearing from them,â? Lott said. â??They […]
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We often hear that we need illegals to do the jobs “Americans won’t do.” Illegals do the jobs Americans would do if wages were not artificially depressed. We talked on our radio show last night about what to do about the 15 million illegals in this country . Some in Congress have proposed amnesty in […]
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