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Restaurant.com - Bold Face Liars, Bad for Business
Thu Jun 30, 2011 7:26 PM EDT
It's not very often that I feel compelled to shout out from every rooftop a word of warning to my colleagues in the world of small business. In fact, I don't think I've ever been so infuriated that I felt it necessary to "call-out" a big company as "bold-face liars and cheats".
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Obama's More-for-Less Health Care Doesn't Add Up: Caroline Baum
Seeded on Mon Aug 3, 2009 7:03 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
It doesn't add up and anyone that is honest will know that it's an impossible dream to come out as they are telling us. I haven't found a single doctor who want's to stay under the proposed plan as it is today.
Solar cycle linked to global climate
Seeded on Sat Jul 18, 2009 8:45 PM EDT (EurekAlert!)
About time someone with some credibility is finally publishing that there may be other greater factors in climate science.
So, How About We Jail Congressmen?
Seeded on Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:10 PM EDT (Silicon Alley Insider)
Sounds like a great idea to me. How many congressmen do you think we can get to support it.
Insure 47 Million People for 85 Years or Reform the System Over 10 Years for the Same Price
Sat Jun 20, 2009 6:53 PM EDT
Why is it that our representatives in government can't ever see the forest through the trees. There's not one thing they do better than the private sector except waste money and resources.
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House Bill HR1787 Poised to Kill Owner Financed / Creative Real Estate
Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:55 PM EDT (Investors Edge and US Gov.)
The U.S. Senate is considering a bill that would severely limit the way you do business as a creative homeowner, small property investor or real estate agent/broker and, more importantly, is an inexcusable infringement of the property rights of all Americans.
Government Bailouts May have Stifled Economic Recovery
Seeded on Thu Jun 11, 2009 12:04 PM EDT (NuWire Investor)
Well now, there's a revelation for you. Who would have thought that government intervention could lead to unfair advantages of "selected favorite BIG companies" being bailed out over their financially stable competitors. What an upside-down world that turns out to be.
Has Capitalism Failed?
Seeded on Wed Jun 10, 2009 9:44 AM EDT (Street Wise Blog - Globe St.)
"Capitalism has failed" is a popular outcry today but those who believe this have misread the causes of our current economic conditions.
Ballmer Says Tax Would Move Microsoft Jobs Offshore
Seeded on Wed Jun 3, 2009 10:35 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
At-a-boy BO... sure looks like you've figured out how to win over the hearts and minds of America's employers. More than 2000 car dealers down the drain, Detroint employment decimated and now the software companies don't see the "incentive" to keep jobs in the USA.
Obama Stimulus Slow to Trickle Into �Real Economy�
Seeded on Tue Jun 2, 2009 11:50 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
The Administration is surprised that the tax cut -- er, reduction in Payroll Deduction which began in April, has failed to spur retail spending.
U.S. Recession May Soon End, Business Economists Say
Seeded on Wed May 27, 2009 12:01 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Remember, these are the same people that require 12 months of hindsight to tell us whether we're in a recession or not, so it's likely we'll be in recovery long before they actually realize it.
Missing Link? Fossil Discovery Hearalded
Seeded on Fri May 15, 2009 1:52 PM EDT (Wall Street Journal)
In what could prove to be a landmark discovery, a leading paleontologist said scientists have dug up the 47 million-year-old fossil of an ancient primate whose features suggest it could be the common ancestor of all later monkeys, apes and humans.
Is America About to Go Broke?
Seeded on Thu May 14, 2009 11:31 AM EDT (MSN)
Government obligations for Social Security and Medicare may soon exceed the combined net worth of every household and nonprofit organization in the country.... and that's only two of the entitlement programs.
U.S. Energy Dept to award $10 billion for auto retooling | Cuts Hydrogen Fuel Cell Research
Seeded on Sun May 10, 2009 5:02 PM EDT (Detroit News)
The Obama administration plans to award $10.1 billion in advanced technology retooling loans to the auto industry this year.
U.S. Economy: Manufacturing, Confidence Increase
Seeded on Sat May 2, 2009 12:09 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
A bit of good news although slim, is still good news.
Oil Floods Rotterdam, Europes Largest Port, as Demand Drops
Seeded on Wed Apr 29, 2009 10:05 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
"...Rotterdam can store 11.9 million cubic meters of crude, port data from 2007 show. That's equal to about 75 million barrels or enough to supply the 27-nation European Union for about five days....."
If Banks Are Too Big to Fail, Take an Ax to Them: David Pauly
Seeded on Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:34 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Sheila Bair, chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., endorsed the notion of limiting bank size Monday when she said the government should abolish its "too big to fail" policy and establish a new authority for taking over and winding down broken financial companies.
Obama May Get His Hands a Little Dirtier Pushing Campaign Agenda
Seeded on Wed Apr 29, 2009 9:17 AM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
He's enjoyed an impressive 100 days of gushing blind support. If he fixes the economy, banking, banking regulators and ratings agencies I'd be happy.
U.K. Couple Must Demolish Cyprus Home, EU Court Says
Seeded on Tue Apr 28, 2009 10:19 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
And I thought buying in Brazil, Columbia and Honduras was risky. 64,000 people have been waiting more than 3 years for title deeds in Southern Cypress while vacation home buyers in North Cypress are faced with losing land, paying to tear down homes they built and damages to boot.
Treasury Announces New Plan to Aid Mortgage Holders
Seeded on Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:47 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
I must be living wrong. Never won a scholarship, grant or lottery and have never qualified for help from the government. Sure would love to owe money on a home about now.
U.S. Economy: Confidence Index Rises Most Since 2005
Seeded on Tue Apr 28, 2009 8:23 PM EDT (Bloomberg.com)
Maybe, just maybe people are getting tired of holding their ankles --- and waiting for another axe to fall. Many things can be purchased at the lowest prices in damn near or decade or more. Paitence (prudence) my a@%, let's go out and buy something!
"Too Big to Fail" Challenged by FED OFFICIAL
Seeded on Thu Apr 23, 2009 9:15 PM EDT (NuWire Investor)
Several Harvard economists authored a white paper in March that stated the largest banks are INSOLVENT, and not ILLIQUID as Treasury has assumed. They also stated that the Treasury's strategy to heal these banks is the wrong medicine for insolvency.
Global Warming - Increasing Hot Air.
Sun Apr 12, 2009 4:41 AM EDT
Wouldn't you know it, after all these years, the world really is flat.
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Summer of Outrage II - There Will Be Blood
Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 3:25 PM EDT (The Accidental Hunt Brothers Blog)
.....Even though the economy continues to struggle, investors are looking ahead to time when the massive rescue efforts by central banks and governments gain traction.
Stop Making Sense
Seeded on Sun Apr 5, 2009 6:20 AM EDT (American Thinker)
I've been suffering under the wrong paradigm for decades. All this time I thought what mattered was "reality." How wrong I've been.
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