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The official explanation if a benign one: "Armed security guards will be on hand at 36 unemployment offices around Indiana in what state officials said is a step to improve safety and make branch security more consistent."
Pontiac, whose muscle cars drag-raced down boulevards, parked at drive-ins and roared across movie screens, went out of business on Sunday.
The way this works is that the slower a ship sails, the fewer times it can make a round trip per year. Thus purposely sailing slowly reduces the effective supply of ships. It's a response to insufficient shipping demand relative to the size...
The president, who is "much smarter" and "more inspirational" than any of his opponents, could benefit from a confrontation with Iran because it would strike up a war machine that would pull the US out of economic stagnation, Broder argues.
There's a good chance that the server pouring your coffee and the parking attendant valeting your car has a bachelor's degree, or even a doctoral degree.
The U.S. economy is a "fiscal train wreck" waiting to happen that risks ushering in a period of stagnation featuring by minimal growth, high unemployment and deflationary pressure, U.S. economist Nouriel Roubini wrote on Friday.
A temporary foreclosure-sale freeze announced by Bank of America 12 days ago gives most distressed homeowners little hope of avoiding a foreclosure but raises a host of new concerns among housing analysts.
The year’s most popular discount shopping event, referring to the Friday after Thanksgiving, is arriving ahead of Halloween this year, with some promotions beginning this week and others throughout November.
I passed up the obvious title: "Heckuva Job Larry!" That was the moment of President Obama's appearance on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart that set all Americans cringing. Yes, he really said that Summers "did a heckuva job." The candidate that
How many bailouts does it take to get to the center of a hyperinflationary collapse? Three? Or maybe just one continuous undefined fiat injection…
The overwhelming volume of sell transactions relative to buy transactions by company insiders over the last six months in key leading sectors of the market is the worst Alan Newman, has ever seen since he began tracking the data.
This is not a complete thought, but I see a failure point. What happens when you have a class of people that are landless and disenfranchised?
Do we spend $1 trillion a year on foreign policy? That was a claim recently made by Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX). The statement got the attention of the folks over at Politifact. They reviewed it, and they found it to be true:
Taking into account the approximately 14 million new job seekers in the future, then the December 2007 unemployment rate will not be met until April 2021! Welcome to the new normal. Of course, both of these analyses assume...
Barack Obama: "No more taxpayer funded bailouts of Wall Street Institutions"
Support hard money advocate and Ron Paul clone Deon Long for Florida District 24
The population of peak earners has peaked and is in the process of crashing. The peak earnings and thus peak spending statistically occurs at age 46.5 in the United States and the Baby Boomers aggregate peak is now beyond peak!
Start-up activity fell to an average of just 3.7% of all jobseekers in the first two quarters of this year, down from 7.6% in the first half of 2009 and 9.6% in the second half, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc, reports WSJ.
"We really wanted to create that sense of excitement, that sense of urgency," said Target spokeswoman Molly Hanus.
We’re fast approaching the critical 1,040 “support” on the S&P 500 – below which technical analysts tell us there is a dark abyss that includes a retest of the March 2009 lows.
The economy is one sick puppy and we are seeing first hand now what it looks like once the crutch of government support is taken away.
As it stands, the Democrats face a potential wipeout in November. If the stock market crashes in July, August and September, that would seal a Democratic defeat of potentially epic proportions. If I were in the Fed, and my compliant political lackeys
The dive to 66.5 in the University of Michigan consumer sentiment for July takes the index back to August 2009 levels. Just awful. Even by November 2002 (12-months after the recession ended in 2001) consumer sentiment was at 84.
Glushken Sheff economist Dave Rosenberg keeps finding more evidence for a double dip. July economic data has been soft -- and "this all follows a very bad May and June... so what we have is a downtrend in the making, not a blip."
Austrian theory acknowledges both the “seen” and the “unseen” effects of government policy, while Keynesian theory ignores the unseen in the pursuit of managing this thing we call “GDP” at all costs.
The biggest hit was, as usual, experienced by revolving credit accounts, which fell by a 10.5 annualized rate to $830.8 billion, from $838.2 billion in April, and just north of $910 billion a year earlier. The bottom line is that consumers retrench..
A day of reckoning is rapidly approaching.
The bigger picture is that the U.S. economy is more over-leveraged than it ever has been before, and we are caught in a debt spiral that is basically impossible to unwind.
Bernanke knows how unpopular he and his fascist institution are right now after all of the crimes they have committed in plain view since 2008. As such, he knows he needs cover for QE2 and that means some sort of deflationary shock that scares...
Shares of Goldman Sachs have begun a move lower on very heavy volume as we are hearing that controversial banking analyst Meredith Whitney has lowered her earnings estimates on the stock ahead of the company's quarterly results...
