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SURPRISE SHRINKAGE IN US ECONOMY: SPENDING’S NOT WORKING
Bloomberg: “U.S. stocks fluctuated between gains and losses, after benchmark indexes climbed to a five-year high, as data showed the economy unexpectedly shrank last quarter. Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest Internet retailer, jumped 4.5 percent after reporting gains in sales and North American operating margin. Chesapeake Energy Corp. surged 7.2 percent as Chief Executive Officer […]
MAYOR EMANUEL PUBLIC OFFICIAL TO BANKS: STOP SUPPORTING GUN MAKERS
January 29, 2013
Mayor Emanuel Chief of Staff: “Now we need you and other commercial banks to join this fight for safer streets. Collectively we can send a clear and unambiguous message to the entire gun industry that investors will no longer financially support companies that profit from gun violence.” Bank of America and TD Bank have received […]
WHAT IS THE VERIZON IPHONE PLAN?
January 23, 2013
NY Post: “Verizon Communications’ wireless unit yesterday missed Wall Street’s fourth-quarter profit estimates in large part because of the hefty cost of subsidizing iPhone sales — Verizon sold a record 6.2 million iPhones in the period, double what it did in the previous quarter. Verizon pays Apple about $650 per iPhone 5, sells it to […]
SAMSUNG BENDABLE SCREEN: TECH ROLLOVER
January 10, 2013
AP: “By showing off a phone with a flexible screen, Samsung is hinting at a day when we might fold up our large phone or tablet screens as if they were maps. The Korean electronics company provided a glimpse of such a device at a keynote speech Wednesday at the International CES gadget show in […]
THE BIG VOTE COUNTDOWN: 5 DAYS – GET GOVERNMENT OUT OF THE WAY OF SANDY
November 1, 2012
Obama is being hailed by the news media followers the past few days as being a real leader. Standing before a crowd he talked about state leaders affected by Sandy promising to do everything he can to get resources to them as quickly as possible. He again pushed the idea of why we can’t do […]
Q3 GDP 2%: FORWARD
October 26, 2012
Remember the job guarantees promised by Obama with the passage of stimulus? He said his policies would produce economic growth of 4.6% in 2012. The third quarter GDP of 2% averages our first three quarters at 1.77% making that 4.6% prediction off the map. WS: “The average GDP growth for the first three quarters of […]
UN SAYS BOYCOTT US COMPANIES IN ISRAEL WHILE OBAMA BOWS TO UN
October 26, 2012
Castro, Chávez, and Putin have endorsed Obama. That came after his UN speech last September when he praise the crowd saying: “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. … The future must not belong to those corrupt few who steal a country’s resources.” He’s both anti-America and anti-business in […]
THE BIG VOTE COUNTDOWN: 13 DAYS – A PLAN FOR JOBS
October 24, 2012
Obama’s new twenty page glossy arrives just after the final debate. Obama: “That’s how you build a strong, sustainable economy that has good middle-class jobs to offer.” Besides a lot of pictures it includes what Obama polices were and what they will be. Although far shorter than ObamaCare he does not anticipate it to be […]
January 30, 2013
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