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Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 8, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link for synopses of the year's most noteworthy business stories to date: GDP growth, immigration reform and border control, the job markets, income growth and inflation, the stock and bond markets, Visa's IPO, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, Bear Stearns, the oil and gold markets,... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.5/5 (8 votes cast)

The Stock Markets' Obama Factor

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 7, 2008 · Comments (10)

In January and February the stock markets were dropping faster than Ted Kennedy dropping off a bridge. As everyone certainly remembers, that was a time during which Obama was scoring caucus and primary victories more often than Eliot Spizer once scored with call girls. Then Clinton won big-time in Ohio... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (13 votes cast)

Business News Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 7, 2008 · Comments (2)

Click the below link for musings about Microsoft-Yahoo and economic growth. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (5 votes cast)

Economy Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: May 2, 2008 · Comments (6)

Click the below link for info about incomes and inflation and job growth.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (8 votes cast)

Rx For Better Healthcare

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (5)

Click the below link for info and musings about the Bush administration's health savings accounts and the related issues of tax policies, the liberal media, partisan politics and legislative reforms.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (5 votes cast)

Economy Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (12)

Believe it or not the country has not gone into a recession. As of March 31 there had not been a single quarter of negative real GDP growth, much less the two consecutive negative quarters that economic conventional wisdom holds is necessary to declare a recession. The economy grew at... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.7/5 (15 votes cast)

The Border

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 30, 2008 · Comments (7)

Here's a link to an outstanding article -- especially by media standards -- regarding the interrelated topics of immigration reform, border control, the war on terror, public policies, labor economics and partisan politics. As they say, read the whole thing. The entire article is a fountain of information and is... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (10 votes cast)

Newspaper circulation continues to tank

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 29, 2008 · Comments (11)

The Audit Bureau of Circulation has released circulation figures on the nation's top twenty newspapers, and the overall news isn't good. ABC is an independent organization which measures paid circulation of participating newspapers and magazines. They are necessary to verify to advertisers that the numbers being quoted are accurate. The... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (10 votes cast)

There Will be Blood

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 28, 2008 · Comments (8)

The Bakken shale formation in North Dakota holds up to 167 billion barrels of oil with over 1 percent being recoverable using current technologies. The new study released Monday said 2.1 billion barrels of oil presently are recoverable in North Dakota's portion of the shale formation, where oil-producing rock is... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.2/5 (14 votes cast)

Business/Immigration Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 25, 2008 · Comments (2)

Click the below link for snippets about (1) a key immigration enforcement measure and its potential costs to employers, and (2) the government's quest to hire more prosecutors to handle criminal cases -- including alien smuggling -- along the Southern border. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (6 votes cast)

Congress Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 24, 2008 · Comments (2)

Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democrat scheme to subject the country's business community to waves of frivolous and vexatious job discrimination lawsuits. Democrat leaders pushed for a vote on the bill with full knowledge it would fail as an election year stunt that specifically was designed to rile up... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (7 votes cast)

Business Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 23, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link for musings about the Liberty Mutual-Safeco insurance buyout and the insurance industry in general. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (3 votes cast)

Business Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 16, 2008 · Comments (5)

Click the below link for snippets about retail sales, inflation, economic growth, Brazilian oil and yet another pro-business, anti-Democrat plaintiffs' lawyer court decision.... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.6/5 (7 votes cast)

Business Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 15, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link for musings about the Delta - Northwest airline merger.... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.3/5 (6 votes cast)

Mind Your Own Business

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: April 13, 2008 · Comments (17)

Wow, talk about prescience. Yesterday, Dafydd ab Hugh went after Barack Obama's call for "more corporate accountability." Then, this morning, the Boston Globe decides to echo Obama's call for Congress to get in on the compensation of CEOs. I am reminded of the old rebuttal some people said to the... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.9/5 (12 votes cast)

Supreme Court Review

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 10, 2008 · Comments (1)

The most newsworthy cases -- gun rights, death penalty, voter laws -- have yet to be decided. Click the below link, however, for synopses of the 07-08 term's most important Supreme Court rulings to date: a case involving federal securities laws, a decision involving principles of Federalism, the International Court... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (5 votes cast)

2008 Business News Review

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: April 8, 2008 · Comments (5)

Click the below link for synopses of the year's most important business stories to date: the job markets, immigration reforms and border control, income growth and inflation, the stock and bond markets, VISA's IPO, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department, Bear Stearns, the guilty plea of sleazebag securities lawyer... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.4/5 (7 votes cast)

The US economy is busted

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 7, 2008 · Comments (13)

Don't say I'm a boob for writing about this. It used to be a high point of Goldy Anthony's life. Every six weeks or so, as a kind of personal morale booster, she and a group of girlfriends would make appointments to see a Beverly Hills plastic surgeon for little... [Full Story]

Rating: 4/5 (4 votes cast)

Absolut®-ly nuts

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: April 5, 2008 · Comments (19)

A controversy has erupted over an Absolut® vodka ad campaign in Mexico which depicts the US-Mexican border as it was in the early 1800s - with Mexico controlling California and much of the Southwest, report Deborah Bonello and Reed Johnson for The Los Angeles Times: The colorful ad, created by... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.6/5 (17 votes cast)

The Knucklehead of the Day award

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: April 4, 2008 · Comments (20)

Today's winner is Wal-Mart. They get the award for the following. The Department of Justice has sued Wal-Mart Stores Inc. on behalf of a former airman, claiming the company didn't give him his job back after he was discharged from the military, the department announced Monday. The lawsuit on behalf... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.7/5 (10 votes cast)

Oil Slick

Posted by Jay Tea · Published: April 2, 2008 · Comments (18)

Well, the heads of the big oil companies got called before Congress yesterday to explain why the hell the price of gas is so high. And it wasn't pretty. I'd like to join the chorus of those slamming Big Oil. I'd really like to, especially since I'm probably gonna pour... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.8/5 (17 votes cast)

Like oreo cookies without the cream filling

Posted by Bill Jempty · Published: March 27, 2008 · Comments (15)

From the 'You got to be kidding me files'- Playboy magazine without the nudity. MANILA (AFP) - The Philippines will get its own edition of Playboy magazine -- only without the nudity that made the US version famous, the editor-in-chief of the local edition said Thursday. The Philippine edition will... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (6 votes cast)

Iowa, other US states lead world in high corporate taxes

Posted by Jim Addison · Published: March 24, 2008 · Comments (6)

Nearly half of US states, including most of the most populous states, have combined state/federal corporate tax rates higher than even Japan (the country with the overall highest national rate), according to Paul L. Caron at Tax Prof. Read the report from The Tax Foundation and see the entire list... [Full Story]

Rating: 4.1/5 (7 votes cast)

Dollars and Senseless

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: March 22, 2008 · Comments (0)

Click the below link for musings about the stock and bond markets. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 3.8/5 (4 votes cast)

Business News Update

Posted by Jayson Javitz · Published: March 15, 2008 · Comments (4)

Click the below link for musings about Bear Stearns, inflation and immigration law reforms. ... [Full Story]

Rating: 5/5 (4 votes cast)

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