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Notice stocks are at the bottom.
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  Judge for yourself.  This is the actual language. Standard And Poors Report. Some highlights.  That I think represent the tone and bring out the points the media as usual is missing. My take, S&P reduced the rating because: 1) Recent events in Washington have left S&P doubtful congress can act effectively to deal...
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CNN Money Something I’ve said for years, the cost of shipping is considerable.  Not to mention the cost of oversight of overseas facilities.  ….He said when NCR looked at the cost of shipping products that weigh more than a ton each, as well as the need to have the plant close to the engineering staff...
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Third try at pasing a town budget tonight at the school. Sign in is at 6:30 PM.  Voting is expected at 7:00 PM. Will be a paper ballot.
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Do you find this funny? If so why? I have my theories.
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The sign in the Center of  Town says May 25th.  I read the 25th and assumed the month was right. THE NEXT BUDGET VOTE WILL BE ON JUNE 15TH  AT THE SCHOOL, SIGN IN STARTS AT 6:30pm. The third budget presented will look a lot like the 2nd, identical.  The BOF decided to re-present...
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See how easy it would be to cut the budget, this interactive site let’s you click your way to financial solvency. Not just for this year, but for the years to come. It’s actually not that hard or brain numbing. Today, you’re in charge of the nation’s finances. Some of your options have more...
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And all our congresspeople and senators voted for every single job killing law. The new unemployment data have been released and they don’t paint a pretty picture — literally and figuratively. The figure below is all we need to know about the success of President Obama’s big-government policies. The lower, solid line is from...
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This is the story of our Mothers and Grandmothers who lived only 90 years ago. Remember, it was not until 1920 that women were granted the right to go to the polls and vote. The women were innocent and defenseless, but they were jailed nonetheless for picketing the White House, carrying signs asking for the vote....
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In a separate survey of Republican likely primary voters, Rob Simmons trails Ms. McMahon 47 – 30 percent, with 14 percent for Peter Schiff. This compares to a 52 – 25 percent McMahon lead in a July 16 survey by the independent Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University. Looking at McMahon and Simmons, Republican voters say: •...
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Keynesianism didn’t work for Hoover and Roosevelt in the 1930s, didn’t work for Japan in the 1990s, and didn’t work for Bush in 2008. Proponents of this approach have a childlike faith in the Keynesian model and its ability to generate very specific (albeit completely inaccurate) numbers. The fault line in American politics is...
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Here is a new flowchart prepared for the Joint Economic Committee showing the healthcare system under Obamacare. It’s not as if it was not complex enough as it was. A system that only a Government bureaucrat could love. Just think of all the lovely interactions with Government employees we get to have trying to...
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So much for transparency Dunstan Prial reports: Under a little-noticed provision of the recently passed financial-reform legislation, the Securities and Exchange Commission no longer has to comply with virtually all requests for information releases from the public, including those filed under the Freedom of Information Act. The law, signed last week by President Obama,...
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From ATR.org In just six months, the largest tax hikes in the history of America will take effect.  They will hit families and small businesses in three great waves on January 1, 2011: (N.B. This version of the document contains even more tax hikes than the original version did) First Wave: Expiration of 2001...
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The Cato: The debate on extending the Bush tax cuts has begun. Those opposed to extension argue that the cuts would greatly increase the federal deficit. The first thing to note is that extending all the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts would lose the government about $216 billion a year in 2012 and rising...
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