Tag: economy
member name: Dave McGill
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December 24, 2007 03:10 PM EST --
Last Saturday I was a guest again on the Bernard Schaer Show on KFUN 1230 AM in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The subject was the economy.
Despite my lack of energy as a result of a temporary but very . . .
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January 21, 2008 07:27 PM EST --
The foreign markets were off about 3% to 4% on Monday, and as of now, 7:00 PM (EST) Monday, the Dow futures are off about 450 to 480 points, an unusually high number, suggesting an ugly opening for . . .
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September 30, 2008 07:05 AM EDT --
The stock market will likely open strong today, and well it should. Yesterday, the market lost one trillion dollars in value, and bloodbaths like that have been historical buying opportunities. . . .
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June 26, 2008 09:26 PM EDT --
Earlier this week, the Federal Reserve Board declined to raise interest rates and, surprisingly, this may have been a factor in the Dow's 358 point drop today. It's surprising because generally . . .
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September 16, 2008 08:34 PM EDT --
Economic conditions in America - if not the world - might be likened to a fish-tailing trailer hooked to a Volkswagen.
I learned about the science of fish-tailing the hard way one day as I sped down . . .
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April 18, 2008 03:01 AM EDT --
Well, it might be a good idea to tighten our belts.
It's been reported that consumers represent over two thirds of this country's Gross Domestic Product, and it's becoming increasingly . . .
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June 13, 2008 04:35 PM EDT --
We have more oil on hand today, in this country, than we had in 2003 when the average, inflation-adjusted price of crude was $32.34 per barrel. At the same time, estimates of world-wide oil product . . .
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February 27, 2007 05:40 PM EST --
It started in China. Regulators there apparently looked at the level of personal loans supporting stock purchases and didn’t like what they saw. Their reaction, one day after the major . . .
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September 27, 2006 04:26 PM EDT --
History will show that the recession of 2007 was one of the most traumatic periods in our nation's history. It will be recorded that there were many causes including the money based political . . .
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March 14, 2008 03:53 PM EDT --
As the nation arguably draws closer to a possible financial meltdown than at any time in the past 79 years, it may no longer be relevant to question whether or not we are actually "in a recession." . . .
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October 17, 2009 06:09 PM EDT --
When the recession was initially setting in and workers were seeing their job security and life savings melt away, some wealthy Americans continued to gorge themselves at the trough of greed.
A growing . . .
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September 19, 2009 07:51 PM EDT --
While Wall Street crows that “it’s over,“ financial stress continues to cause great pain up and down Main Street. Like an iceberg, most of it lies beneath the surface, out of sight . . .
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November 29, 2009 05:47 AM EST --
Well-run corporation know at least one thing very well. They don’t put people associated with the creation of a problem in charge of solving it. They know that if they do, the appointees will become . . .
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October 16, 2008 04:32 AM EDT --
Pardon me, but does anyone else feel that McCain has become bitter, negative and way less than truthful? That was the main impression I got from the debate tonight,
On a day when the small amount of . . .
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December 03, 2006 11:12 PM EST --
As our Mideast allies verge on a state of panic, according to the LA Times, and as the prospect for three simultaneous civil wars in the region becomes more likely with each passing day, it is . . .
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July 27, 2007 06:17 PM EDT --
Risk is defined as the degree of fluctuation inherent in any given situation. Recent history has given us - if nothing else - an overabundance of fluctuations.
Optimism was king, no more than a . . .
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June 06, 2007 09:29 AM EDT --
If “the wheel” is considered the number one invention that we inherited from the earth’s primitive years, then perhaps, “the wall” should be number two.
In nine tenth’s . . .
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June 01, 2009 02:12 PM EDT --
With the dollar falling, the 10-year government bond yield up over 1.50% from a short time ago, oil approaching $70 per barrel once again, gold nearing $1,000 an ounce, and commodities, in general, up . . .
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March 03, 2009 03:31 AM EST --
Forget the Great Depression. According to Bloomberg News, the year-to-year percentage drop in the net earnings of the S&P 500 companies is already the worst since the year that George . . .
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January 16, 2009 11:59 PM EST --
What seems to be lost in the fanfare surrounding the current transfer of power to Barack Obama is that, in George W. Bush, we are losing the most fascinating, most controversial, most written-about . . .
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