Posts Tagged ‘economy’

Who is to blame for gas and oil prices? Americans only need look in the mirror.  If you tune into the news of late, what you'll find is heavy coverage of the problem of rising gas prices, record-breaking oil costs, and of course,  record-breaking profits for big oil.   What most Americans ...

Increased unleaded and diesel fuel prices are undoubtedly putting the screws to our economy. Higher fuel prices means higher shipping costs which, in turn, results in higher prices for anything that must be shipped a considerable distance from its point-of-manufacture/point-of-harvest to a sales outlet of any kind. Items fabricated from ...

One might think the greatest threat posed by OPEC member nations would be their tendency to funnel cash through various means into the hands of those hell-bent on bringing about our destruction. While this threat is real and, thanks to Venezuela at the very least, far less remote than ...

Another reason for non-Americans to hate the U.S. leadership: The credit crunch will globally cost $1.2 trillion (£600bn) according to a report from the bank Goldman Sachs.  When neo-conservatives comment on how Americans should not care about the opinions of foreign citizens, they're wrong.  Our actions affect everyone on this ...

I've come to understand and fall in love with the idea that government should remain as far away from the private space of citizens as possible.  Limited government is always ideal, protecting privacy and liberty should be at the core of every American soul.  However, it seems that Republicans have ...

Greed has knocked our country off its horse and getting back will be a challenge.  The AP is reporting that foreclosures on homes are at an all time high and attempts at assisting with the "rescue" have failed. Two percent of all mortgages are currently in foreclosure, according to a survey ...

Some political analysts and economists argue that the war is only compounding the effect of a sluggish economy and but for the war, our economy might be in better shape than it is now.  You can't get President Bush to agree, however.  According to Bush, the war is actually helping ...

Healthcare: Limited Supply vs. Unlimited Demand I must preface my column with the observation that there is at least one instance when an apparently-infinite demand for product can be sated by human hands. We are more or less able to feed ourselves which means that the human hunger for food ...

Shifting the economy in a new direction?  Is this the kind of change America wants? Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Sunday she might be willing to garnish the wages of workers who refuse to buy health insurance to achieve coverage for all Americans. The New York senator has criticized presidential rival Barack ...

President Bush seems concerned about the failing economy all of a sudden. The rhetoric about a healthy economy that he argued was simply experiencing a downturn is no more.  He is pushing Congress to get out his stimulus package plan and he's insisting (like with FISA legislation) that it arrive at ...

You'll be glad to know that President Bush's economy has slipped into the first recession in sixteen years. The US has entered its first full-blown economic recession in 16 years, according to investment bank Merrill Lynch. The last time we had such a recession was when President H.W. Bush was in office! David ...