First, the US numbers… In the United States on Friday, a crucial measure of manufacturing activity fell to the lowest level in 28 years in December. The Institute for Supply Management, a trade group of purchasing executives, said its manufacturing index was 32.4 in December down from 36.2 in November. “Manufacturing activity continued to decline [...]
How would you like to be the deciding vote in the Senate right now? LA Times explores… Vice President-elect Joe Biden and Obama’s incoming budget director, Peter R. Orszag, have met with Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) about economic stimulus legislation. Obama’s team has consulted Rep. Michael N. Castle (R-Del.), an expert on education, about school [...]
“One of the mythologies is that it was the vice president that somehow was pulling the strings on foreign policy in the first term and made it very ideologically driven and that somehow in the second term, the vice president’s influence is in decline and, therefore, somehow the real Bush has come forward, and we [...]
Looks like all that money and influence peddling won’t stop Dems from pushing this hot button issue off to the side for a while. From WSJ: It hasn’t been much noticed, but the political ground is already shifting under Big Labor’s card-check initiative. The unions poured unprecedented money and manpower into getting Democrats elected; their [...]
For me, the meaning of “worst” is definitely in the eye of the beholder. Because while a lot of wealth was lost, the silver lining was that many economic ills were exposed before something truly cataclysmic happened. There’s no doubt that our economy is hurting right now, but just imagine what would have happened if [...]
Yesterday afternoon, a Muslim family with nine members including three children was ordered off an AirTran flight from Reagan National to Orlando. Passengers claimed members of the family had made suspicious remarks. The family claims they were just discussing the safest place to sit on the plane. The FBI cleared the family and helped them [...]
Find out… I worked in local news when I was in college for the Fox affiliate here in Kansas City and having a good sense of humor is almost essential for the job. Because most people in the news business are horribly paid and the only satisfaction one usually gets is from moments like these. [...]
A writer from The Onion is selling one on eBay. No, seriously… My name is John Harris, and I am a staff writer at The Onion, America’s Finest News Source. I am selling a joke that I can’t find a contextual home for. To be fair, it’s less of a joke and more of a [...]
The New York Times covers three small businesses in the NYC area and it’s pretty sobering stuff. Whatever stimulus plan we see after Obama gets in better help these folks directly otherwise the economy simply isn’t going to pick back up. Do you own a small business? How tough have things been recently?
First off, Happy New Year to you and yours. Hope everybody had a great time. Now then…the guy who should be hosting Meet The Press is instead discussing the expectations of Obama’s first three months. I agree that it’s less the first 100 days as it’s the first 6 months to a year. But the [...]
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