Month: September 2008

Gold prices up. Crude oil prices up. Stocks dropping like a rock down. Foreclosures not slowing down. $700 Billion Dollars? Not enough, I guess. Maybe Plan A isn’t such a great idea. Saturday’s $700 billion junk...

Are Americans ready for a revolution?  What worse than the current meltdown of the financial sector, the unraveling of our economy, and burdening us and future generations with astounding debt is needed to convince...

The Emmys this year were replete with political innuendo and outright blatant commentary. I surely helped that two nomination-heavy films were John Adams, about our second president, and Recount, HBO’s tale of the...

Last night I had a very bad dream in which my October Social Security Retirement Check did not come. The rent was due, the cupboards nearly empty, and prescriptions needed filling at full price, because of the donut hole....

ABC News reports: In 2007, Wall Street’s five biggest firms– Bear Stearns, Goldman Sachs, Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley – paid a record $39 billion in bonuses to themselves. That’s...