DrumBeat: January 13, 2009
Analysis: Global power demand to languish in 2009 The outlook for energy commodities this year remains grim, says a new report from Merril Lynch ... management, contractor mistakes and Iraqi neglect, U.S. auditors say in a new report similar to many others examining the country's reconstruction. Released Tuesday, the report from the office [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 01:35:34
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Fox News Blames Democrats for Financial Crisis, Bill Clinton Agrees
Going very much against the media meme that the current financial crisis is all George W ... at this moment. ELIZABETH DOLE (R), NORTH CAROLINA SENATOR: My constituents, and indeed taxpayers across ... to the dismay of such folk actually agreed with a Fox News segment aired on Tuesday's "Special Report [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 15:25:23
Rahm Emanuel Gets It Wrong Again-- His Tone Deaf War Against Comedy Central And Stephen Colbert
Maybe Emanuel should be giving advice to the Lynn Westmorelands of the world Rahm Emanuel's control of the Democratic congressional caucus' communications apparatus has guaranteed that he would get undue credit for the Democratic House victories in 2006. I'm sure it was his political genius that also was decisive in the John Tester, Jim [more...]
Date: 2008-08-14 01:00:00
'A Destroying Wind'
-- by Dave Thus says Yahweh: Behold, I will raise up against Babylon and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind.. [more...]
Date: 2008-06-01 16:01:07
How good is your state's "election readiness"?
Yesterday the creator of the Iowa Voters blog let Bleeding Heartland readers know that "The Brennan Center ( ... , Oregon, California, North Carolina, and our neighbors Missouri and Minnesota). I agree ... with help from Sean Flaherty of Iowans for Voting Integrity) has released a major report [more...]
Date: 2008-10-18 16:18:25
John Edwards Stiffs the Kids, Cancels Scholarships... Hello Media?
Yes, there are two Americas. The one where John Edwards used to have a scholarship program that he intended to set up as an example for all of ... on his pilot scholarship program in North Carolina. It was for the kids... now it isn't. As the media ... Hill, North Carolina, Senator John Edwards today announced his plan to make college more affordable [more...]
Date: 2008-07-31 14:18:55
Checking in on the… Ivy League
David Zeitlin is the RTC correspondent for the Ivy League. Let’s see … what to report from the Ivy League from the last two weeks. Hmm ... and Harvard Celebrate the Win Over BC (photo credit: NBC Sports)When Harvard (9-6) pulled off that shocker ... No. 1 team in the land. And two, how ’bout that Tommy Amaker, huh? While I agree that Harvard is the best [more...]
Date: 2009-01-17 02:22:00
DrumBeat: September 16, 2008
Oil at 7-month low on Wall Street woes Crude futures fall more than $4 a barrel as economic concerns fuel market fears that demand for energy will not recover any time soon. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Oil prices settled at a seven-month low Tuesday as the meltdown on Wall Street pulled the oil market's focus to the economic slowdown that has [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 14:05:01
Where’d the bailout money go? Shhhh, it’s a secret
WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where’s the money going? [more...]
Date: 2008-12-22 15:59:38
Everything We Knew About Real Estate Is No Longer True
The Sun Sentinel reports from Florida. “For South Florida’s sluggish housing market, ... report.” “Analysts say any portability-fueled boost in home sales was swamped by stronger forces pulling down the real estate market in Florida and nationwide: crumbling home prices, tightening credit [more...]
Date: 2008-08-12 14:28:35
State of the AmLaw 200 Blogosphere, November 2008
Law firm marketing and business development professionals have been politely getting after Kevin McKeown, our VP of Client Development, for an updated report on large law's use of blogs. Innovators, such as Gloria Fox at Blank Rome, are looking for hard data for their law firm's management that their competition has effectively [more...]
Date: 2008-12-01 16:14:23
Got TARP? How About Tax Haven Subs?
As we arrive (almost) at the inauguration of the new administration, we are still facing an enormous financial system problem, headed by banks that got too big and gorged on the profits from speculating in risky derivatives at a cost ultimately to be borne by the taxpayers [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 20:53:31
“We can put light where there’s darkness, and hope where there’s despondency in this country ... S. Bernanke, chairman of the Federal Reserve, laid out the latest terrifying news: The credit markets ... easy credit, consumers who took on mortgages they could not afford and Wall Street chieftains [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 16:01:46
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Date: 2009-01-16 14:29:00
DrumBeat: January 13, 2009
DrumBeat: January 13, 2009 Analysis: Global power demand to languish in 2009 The outlook for energy commodities this year remains grim, says a new report from Merril Lynch. Neither cold winter temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere ... , U.S. auditors say in a new report similar to many others examining the country’s reconstruction [more...]
Date: 2009-01-15 00:06:24
Alcoa lays off 15,000, US economy moves toward depression
By Tom Eley Less than one week into 2009, new economic data indicate the US will not quickly rebound from the crash of 2008 ... as many as 3,000 teachers; in North Carolina the Robert Bosch Corp. will fire one tenth ... unemployment, in North Carolina the number of fired workers trying to sign up online for either new [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 20:15:40
Dole Still Wallowing in Anti-Atheist Bigotry
NC State Fair: Elizabeth Dole Image by Digital Papercuts via FlickrI've already said everything I plan to say about the despicable nature North ... ) Subscribe to Atheist Revolution Tags: North Carolina, Elizabeth Dole, campaign, bigotry, atheist ... Carolina Senator Elizabeth Dole's campaign of bigotry. Now that Dole has sunken even lower [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 19:53:15
The Best Gubernatorial Campaign of 2008
The Best Gubernatorial Campaign of 2008 Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels handily defeated his Democratic opponent despite a tough landscape for incumbent Republicans and the fact that Obama carried the state. (AP Photo/ Indianapolis Star, Frank Espich) Yesterday we started our year-end awards by naming state Sen [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:30:35
Did Racism Help Cause the Mortgage Crisis? The Rise of Sandy Weill and Citigroup
Photo: United for a Fair Economy The State of the Dream copyright © 2008 Ralph Brauer ... on a Baltimore loan company named Commercial Credit that specialized in predatory lending. The tale ... of color. Commercial already had a shady reputation when Weill moved in on it. In 1973 the FTC [more...]
Date: 2008-12-21 05:13:51
DrumBeat: October 7, 2008
A Gift From the ’70s: Energy Lessons The presidential candidates claim to see America’s energy future, but their competing visions have a certain vintage quality. They’ve revived that classic debate: the hard path versus the soft path. The soft path, as Amory Lovins defined it in the 1970s, is energy conservation and power from the sun, [more...]
Date: 2008-10-07 13:15:04
Guest Post from Kristin Teigen of Poligots: North Carolina Road Trip
The MOMocrats are proud to welcome Oregon-based political blogger and honorary MOMocrat Kristin Teigen who just got back from volunteering for Obama in North Carolina. She files this report. I spent the last week and a half traveling around rural North Carolina, gaining, in part, a very different perspective [more...]
Date: 2008-10-31 17:04:44
Following the Market Dive
Following the Market Dive By Mike Nizza The Closing Bell, 4:05 p.m. To end the day, an A.P ... on the economic situation up north. Updated: A government report on Friday morning showing that Canada ... whose Conservative Party faces the voters on Tuesday. As the credit crisis expanded in the United [more...]
Date: 2008-10-10 14:16:38
Franken to Coleman: Where's The Beef?
request to prevent certification of the recount until claims regarding alleged double-counted ballots are resolved. Nor will it require any further efforts from the counties in pursuit of such ballots. The Court decided simply that Coleman hadn't presented enough evidence, [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 07:19:00
The United States Paymasters Of The Army & Navy
There is one thing That both military services could not do without that was money for pay and other reasons. Being a paymaster sounds like a easy job, not so, and as you read about them you will find it was a hard and some times a dangers job. Some paymasters would be killed for their money, many would be robbed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 23:59:00
CRA and Fannie and Freddie as betes noire
There is so much chaff floating around about the roles of Fannie and Freddie and of the Community Reinvestment Act in the current crisis, despite the best efforts of economists like Jim Hamilton , Mark Thoma and Janet Yellen, that it seems worthwhile to once again go through some of the arguments that have been forwarded [more...]
Date: 2008-10-21 19:03:56
Inside the Mind of John McCain: On Picking Palin
Inside the Mind of John McCain: On Picking Palin Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz) held forth today on his decision to choose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky) John McCain is not a man who likes to be psychoanalyzed. So, when he gets reflective -- even for a short time -- it's worth noting [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 21:25:43
DrumBeat: October 2, 2008
John Michael Greer: Cassandra's View In this setting, the presentations and talk at the conference took on a surreal quality, as though the global civilization we were discussing – the one running out of cheap and easily available fossil fuels – was on some other planet [more...]
Date: 2008-10-02 14:01:45
Bretton Woods Inc - Bounced check/overdraft fees paid by state
Because you write about state-specific issues, thought you may like to see a new report that details the amount of bank and credit union NSF/ODP ... ;STORY=/www/story/01-12-2009/0004953295&EDATE= Banks and Credit Unions Collect ... by banks and credit unions in 2008. The research by bank strategist G. Michael Flores reveals the amount [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 15:02:23
GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips - October 1, 2008
GOPUSA ILLINOIS Daily Clips for October 1, 2008 includes news and commentaries on the following topics: Republican Party candidates, elected officials, party leaders, and events Republican Party platform issues including promoting a strong national defense, respect for the rule of law, individual responsibilitiy, traditional values, etc [more...]
Date: 2008-10-01 13:56:09
Bloomberg: Ackman Was Right On MBIA Ambac
Bloomberg: Ackman Was Right On MBIA Ambac In something we all knew a year ago if not far longer, Bloomberg says Bill Ackman Was Right: MBIA, ... North America may fall first. The company's credit rating has been cut by 17 levels to CCC from AAA ... of a AAA credit rating and may be headed for the bottom of the scale. That once-unthinkable scenario [more...]
Date: 2008-06-19 23:44:50
It’s Like Watching A Storm Moving Your Way
The Pittsburg Tribune Review reports from Pennsylvania. “Teresa Hunt worries she’ll have to quit school if she doesn’t find ways to supplement her mortgage payments. She wants to offer discounted rent to someone who would watch her children a few days a week [more...]
Date: 2008-08-21 14:10:35
Obama, Bill Ayers: Ayers Wanted to Kill 25 Million Die-Hard Capitalists
the Tribune asked Obama to run for president in 2006. Obama’s campaign mastermind, David Axelrod, used to work for the Chicago Tribune. One would assume he still has a few friends that work at the paper. And friends do favors for friends. The following video details a few unpleasant facts about Barack Obama and what little is known about his [more...]
Date: 2008-10-23 14:27:14
Eco Clothing Store Owner Sued for $20M After Exposing Scam
When business owner Leslie Richard of eco-clothing store The Oko Box was first contacted by Vision Media Television, ... with a $20 million dollar lawsuit – an amount that a small business like The Oko Box could never ... of scams on consumer-report websites like the Ripoff Report. Leslie wrote about what happened [more...]
Date: 2008-08-19 16:15:07
Obama Wants McCAIN Investigated Over ACORN
"There is a fifth dimension beyond that which is known to man. It is a dimension as vast as space and timeless as infinity. It is the middle ground between truth and fiction, between the MSM and fantasy, and it lies between the pit of man's fears and the summit of a fair election. This is the dimension of ACORN. YOU HAVE NOW CROSSED OVER TO.... [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 15:47:43
Credit Default Swaps Traders Downgrade Fannie and Freddie
According to Moody's, the ratings implicit in credit default swaps on Fannie and Freddie treat the government-sponsored enterprises as if they are ... that market. From Bloomberg: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, ranked Aaa by the world's largest credit ... . Credit-default swaps tied to $1.45 trillion of debt sold by the two biggest U.S. mortgage finance [more...]
Date: 2008-07-09 05:30:38
Throw the Flag: Cynic’s Guide to College Football, Week 3
While USC and Oklahoma fans are busy checking flight and hotel plans for the national title game, Throw the Flag, HHR’s resident cynic is back to report on the uglier side of Week 3 in college football.1 ... and let off the throttle, mercifully not scoring in the fourth quarter.So which is the real UCLA [more...]
Date: 2008-09-16 14:43:00
Top Frugal Colleges Of 2009. Is Stanford A Cheap College?
at Stanford University, CA, United States photo credit: matsuda ... .) 3. Princeton University (Princeton, N.J.) 4. Rice University (Houston, Texas) 5. Yale University ... schools in the report. Similar Posts 10 Ways To Make Your Stuff Feel New Again Free Creative Ideas [more...]
Date: 2009-01-12 13:00:07
Where'd the Bailout Money Go? Shhhh, It's a Secret
Where'd the bailout money go? $350 billion later, banks won't say how they're spending it By MATT APUZZO Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON December 22, 2008 (AP) It's something any bank would demand to know before handing out a loan: Where's the money going? But after receiving billions in aid from U.S [more...]
Date: 2008-12-23 02:42:49
The Constitution And Paper Money
by Dr. Clarence Carson, FEE.org The United States Constitution does not mention paper money by that name ... on the power of the states in Article I, Section 10. It reads, “No State shall . . . emit Bills of Credit ... was technically described as bills of credit at that time. The description was (and is) apt. Such paper [more...]
Date: 2009-01-02 22:46:07
House and Senate Race Roundup, 7/28
NM-Sen: This barely qualifies as "news" anymore, but Rasmussen's latest poll shows Democratic Rep. Tom Udall with a big fat wide lead in his Senate race over Republican Steve Pearce. From Rasmussen: Udall (D) 59 Pearce (R) 34 Udall has enjoyed a consistent 20-30 point polling lead for months now [more...]
Date: 2008-07-28 21:10:57
AP: Palin Has Checkered History On Ethics Issues
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose reformer image took a hit in a report concluding she abused her powers to settle a family score, ... last year that she failed to report on disclosure forms, despite criticizing state legislators [more...]
Date: 2008-10-14 22:23:08
Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/29/2008
USABankruptcy of US Banks: Can Islamic Banking Help?Bosnian Immigrants Build Des Moines MosqueDear Hank: Here’s How to End the Credit Crisis at No Cost ... to be strict about credit rating system to restrain chances of any further bankruptcy.Interestingly, since [more...]
Date: 2008-09-30 00:56:00
January 8 - Microsoft/IBM Rumors Swirl - Jobless Claims Fall to 467,000 - Lenovo (China)/Dell (Ireland)/TDK (Japan) Layoffs - Spring Global Ends Jobs for 365 - 111 Depart at Trane - 1000 Less Jobs at Schlumberger - Layoff Outrage of the Day: Banks Offshoring IT Jobs -
The Layoff Outrage of the Day: Mike: I thought I would title the daily discussion to save readers any confusion about my intentions, which are simply to highlight a daily kick in the butt to the workers and taxpayers of America. Today I’ll discuss the often mentioned subject of outsourcing [more...]
Date: 2009-01-08 13:55:13
DrumBeat: October 20, 2008
The Folly Of A Depression Thesis We have several things working against us this time around, and few things working for us, compared to the 1930s. Here's a short list: ● In the 1930s we were resource-independent. Today we are near-absolutely dependent on foreign oil [more...]
Date: 2008-10-20 12:59:58
Gates of Vienna News Feed 9/26/2008
USAAnother Weatherman Terrorist a Player in Obama CampaignFederal Responses to Market Turmoil Europe and the EUBritish Identity Cards Will be Covered in EU SymbolsCologne: 2 Terrorist Suspects Arrested on KLM FlightGerman Bishops Back “Dignified” Mosques‘Laissez-Faire’ Capitalism is Finished, [more...]
Date: 2008-09-27 00:56:00
Wednesday Items
The Rothenberg Political Report has put out new 2010 Senate Ratings ... Party," Rothenberg sees four more Republican-held seats (North Carolina, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania ... seats (Iowa and Kansas) and two Democratic seats (North Dakota and Wisconsin). It is interesting [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 21:40:49
DrumBeat: January 14, 2009
DrumBeat: January 14, 2009 Obama energy goal hard to meet: Bodman WASHINGTON (Reuters) ... in energy prices, but this would not affect its $2.3 billion credit facility, the independent oil ... (Bloomberg) — Crude oil fell after a U.S. government report showed that stockpiles climbed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-16 17:22:13
Alaska Senate: Count the Votes!
Alaska Senate: Count the Votes! Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska and his supporters watch vote results showing the Republican ahead of his opponent on ... with roughly half of the 90,000 remaining ballots now counted, according to a report on the Anchorage Daily News website. Roughly 43,000 of the 90,000 outstanding votes had been counted as of 8 pm [more...]
Date: 2008-11-13 01:22:00
DrumBeat: January 14, 2009
Obama energy goal hard to meet: Bodman WASHINGTON (Reuters) ... prices, but this would not affect its $2.3 billion credit facility, the independent oil and gas ... (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil fell after a U.S. government report showed that stockpiles climbed [more...]
Date: 2009-01-14 13:55:13
51 First Amendment Case Victories since 06/2008. See the last 3 below with a grand slam case victory against Georgia Tech and inspite of the media...
3 more First Amendment Case victories below which now totals 51 since 06/08 see trail of all cases starting here at African American Pro-lifer threatened with 4 years in jail even though witness testified that no use of "force against them, threatened them, or..". Also, see a video report of this Georgia Tech case that you won't [more...]
Date: 2009-01-04 16:01:01
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