Feb11
How ‘Legatus’ Brought Down Wall Street Apparently, this same guy also predicted back in November 2008 that that market would take a dive on 2/09. I found this on Google Finance.
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Posts Tagged ‘Economy’
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Feb09
$3.9B in hurricane aid still unspent By Brad Heath, USA TODAY WASHINGTON — A massive effort to fix public works destroyed more than three years ago by the Gulf Coast hurricanes remains largely stalled, leaving more than $3.9 billion in federal aid unspent and key repairs far from complete. The scale of that job is […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Feb05
Up to now, I have been using the FY 2009 budgets of various cities with a significant Black population to help readers get a picture of just how much money is being wasted in this stimulus bill. For this post I am going to put aside the stimulus bill number and compare it to the […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan30
h/t: suitablyflip.com
Jan30
From the Washington Post Spending on the National Polar Orbiting Environmental Satellite System, a program to generate weather and climate data, has doubled over the last 14 years to $12.5 billion — even though none of the satellites have been launched. More from Taxpayers for Common Sense A tri-agency project that will circle the globe […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan30
The Golden State isn’t Feeling all That Golden These Days
by Duane on January 30th, 2009 at 2:07 amPosted In: Economy
Just heard from my neighbor last evening that his due to some restructuring plans with his employer, they will be moving ASAP out of state. That now brings the total amount of empty homes in our cul-de-sac to 6 out of 10 homes total. Just got the official word from Gov. Schwarzenegger that our tax […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan28
Next time someone starts complaining about how inner-city public schools don’t have enough to do x,y,z, slap ‘em with some of this madness. Last evening I took some time to look over the “stimulus” bill. The following are just some of the things that stuck out to me as unrelated to economic recovery. Later on […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan26
Peter Schiff was one of those whose prediction back in ’06 of the current recession was spot on.
Jan16
How To Boost Support For A Stimulus Package
by Duane on January 16th, 2009 at 4:36 pmPosted In: Economy
Calif. tax refunds to be delayed starting Feb. 1
Jan16
Sign of the times, I guess. What’s crazy is that they just built one about less than a year ago not too far from me. Circuit City to shut down
From abcnews.com Obama will acknowledge that he is making his pitch after the Bush administration has spent trillions of dollars, only to see the nation’s fiscal prospects sour even more as critics worry that resulting deficits could last for generations. In remarks prepared for this morning’s appearance at George Mason University in Virginia, Obama will […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Jan05
Combine all the bailouts so far and we are way over the $1 trillion mark. This does not include Obama’s American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan bailout. The bailout so far: $7.8 trillion Michael Rainey As Peter Cohan noted earlier this week, the size of the corporate bailout in the U.S. is far larger than most […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dec18
Apparently not. Mayors’ infrastructure request full of pork, critic says CNN Special Investigations Unit A report to Congress that requests $73.2 billion to pay for infrastructure projects around the country includes plans for a polar bear exhibit, an anti-prostitution program, a water park ride, zoos, museums and aquatic centers, CNN has found. (more…)
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