Archive for March, 2009

Obama’s team actually prefers foreign car brands

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Ooops, it seems that many on  President Obama ’s team, including those seeking to save the American automobile industry, do not actually drive vehicles from that American automobile industry. According to a study by the Detroit News and a White House parking lot survey by Politico.com, neither do Obama’s White House staffers. Before leaving for Europe (where the Secret Service had pre-placed Obama’s new armoured Cadillac), the president dished out some rhetorical tough love Monday t

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Business Internet Marketing Opportunity-5 Steps To Finding One

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

More money online thanks to a lucky combination, that is  what people call Internet marketing opportunity. The source of such a fortunate event can be found anywhere, in a book or marketing guide, in a TV show, on a web site providing marketing tips, in a piece of advice you get by word of mouth and so on. Sometimes people are not even aware they could be missing or letting go an important business Internet marketing opportunity that could be the a turn of luck in a company’s development. Regard

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Ben Eason maintains ownership in Creative Loafing bankruptcy court ruling

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Ben Eason, whose family started Creative Loafing in Atlanta in 1972, was vindicated in a federal bankruptcy court in Tampa today, as a judge ruled against a lender’s effort to take control of the nation’s second-largest chain of alt-weekly newspapers. Judge Caryl E. Delano said despite contradictory (and flawed, in her estimation) reports about the chain’s value since going into Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in September 2008, there was no evidence given that Eason’s management of the media

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Department of Energy Releases $6 Billion in Funding for Environmental Cleanup

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

photo: Gene via flickrThe DOE is all about doling out the money lately (and good thing too): Today Energy Secretary Chu announced that $6 billion in funding allocated in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has been released for acceleration of environmental cleanup work: Soil and groundwater restoration, transportation, waste disposal, clean-up and demolition of former weapons complexes: Chu said that thousands of jobs will be created across 12 states by the release of funding, adding, ”

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Obama Takes the Wheel

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

This is from Ken Blackwell, a member of the Club’s board of directors: Obama Takes the Wheel By Ken Blackwell President Barack “the Redistributor” Obama says he has no interest in running General Motors. Too late. When you fire the CEO, you run the company. It’s always prudent not to read too much into one government action, or sometimes even two. But by the time you see three consistent actions you can often discern a pattern. We’ve long since passed three actions of massive gov

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Find Free Church Accounting Software

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

by Nathan Jackson Managing a Church’s finances can be extremely challenging, especially on a limited budget. To make things worse, the economy is currently down meaning your church probably isn’t receiving as many donations as before. Finding some free church accounting software could save your church money. Many Internet sites offer free church management software. However, these offers can be misleading. The following is a list of web pages that offer free church software along with any po

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Air America – five years later (Part II)

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

When Al Franken opened up the microphone just after noon eastern time on Wednesday March 31, 2004, the upstart Air America Radio network was officially born. And, at that very moment, the vultures and cynics officially began speculating on their demise.Right-wingers, supposedly the champions of free enterprise and the Capraesque American dream of entrepreneurial achievement, were rooting for their quick death. Executives in the oft-cutthroat fraternity of the radio industry were understandably p

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The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

The Logistical Nightmare in Iraq283 Bases, 170,000 Pieces of Equipment, 140,000 Troops, and an Army of Mercenaries: By Jeremy Scahill ICHMarch 30, 2009 “AlterNet” – With last week’s announced escalation of the war in Afghanistan, including an Iraq-like “surge” replete with 4,000 more U.S. troops and a sizable increase in private contractors, President Barack Obama blew the lid off of any lingering perceptions that he somehow represents a significant change in how the U.S. conducts its foreign

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Global Investing News

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Report: U.K. Financials Cutting More Jobs; OPEC Prez Forecasts $75/Barrel; Oil Falls With Global Stocks; Chalco Scaling Back Spending; S&P Cuts Ireland’s Credit Rating; Investors Paid Cash for 40% of 2nd Home Purchases in 2008; Grain Prices Likely to Fall; Microsoft Settles Patent Suit The Confederation of British Industry forecasts that the United Kingdom’s financial-services sector may cut up to 15,000 jobs , or 1.4% of the industry’s workforce, in the second quarter, B

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Today’s technical outlook: Expect more downside

Tuesday, March 31st, 2009

Filed under: ETF Investing , Technical Analysis , S and P 500 , DJIA , Stocks to Buy Monday’s sell-off was caused by the forced resignation of General Motors’ (NYSE: GM ) chief, and the threat that both GM and Chrysler would face bankruptcy. This classic example of a news-triggered correction, or perhaps even a confirmation of the bear market, came just as stocks were broadly overpriced. In addition to a sell signal from most of the internal indicators (most graphic being the st

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