When the first economic stimulus package was awarded, I said then that $600 wasn’t going to get much done and I was right.People paid their light bill or credit card bill with it. They didn’t buy new t.v.s, computers or cars. When they voted the $700 Billion dollar financial institution bailout, I was also skeptical [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Stock market’
Economic Stimulus and what it Means to We The People
Posted: 25th January 2009 by ê¿ê in Money & PoliticsTags: bailout, credit crunch, Financial meltdown, Stock market
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Is This Bailout Working for You?
Posted: 29th September 2008 by ê¿ê in Money & PoliticsTags: Democratic Party, Economic bail out, John McCain, National Public Radio, Republican, Stock market, taxpayers, Wall Street
I’m an on-again off-again news listener. During the week, I have a radio at work tuned to NPR radio as is my car radio. My husband swears they are a force of the Democrats and gnashes his teeth and pulls his hair at my listening to it. I keep telling him it’s because of the [...]
Financial Giants Falling Like Flies
Posted: 15th September 2008 by ê¿ê in Money & PoliticsTags: Bank of America, Federal government of the United States, Financial Services, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, Stock market, Subprime lending, United States
Image via Wikipedia Reports of financial giants like Lehman Brothers filing bankruptcy while others are being gobbled up by their competitors i.e. Merrill Lynch being bought by Bank of America have caused the international stock markets to fall and the US Market is sure to follow suit. It’s almost like a feeding frenzy amongst the [...]
Something Horrible Happened!
Posted: 14th July 2008 by ê¿ê in The WorldTags: Business, Cancer, Conditions and Diseases, Construction and Maintenance, depression, Health, House, Lung, mental health, Stock market, suicide
I ususally work from home on Tuesdays as I tend to have meetings scheduled on Tuesday nights, but last week I worked from home on Thursday. It was fortuitous for me that my week worked out that way. I work in a high-rise office building. It’s part of a two building complex that’s joined by [...]
