The article below was written by Paul  Krugman, Nobel Peace Prize winner in economics.Maybe he knows what he is talking about. It needs reforming; not destruction. My wife and I were thinking of going out for an inexpensive dinner tonight. But John…

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FCC allows Comcast  to buy NBC while Comcast also buys votes"As is normal in media mergers, the F.C.C. imposed a long list of conditions on the deal. They were outlined in an F.C.C. news release on Tuesday. The conditions are intended to ensure that…

FCC allows Comcast  to buy NBC."As is normal in media mergers, the F.C.C. imposed a long list of conditions on the deal. They were outlined in an F.C.C. news release on Tuesday. The conditions are intended to ensure that Comcast plays fair when…

What does the American auto industry, the health care industry, wall street firms and the banking ndustry all have in common; other than they were all on the brink of failure?These are industries where the production side of the industry is no…

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Blue Shield of California is planning to go forward with planned health insurance rate increases despite calls from government regulators to delay the move.The San Francisco-based insurer said Friday that it asked an independent…

The article below appeared in the New York Times on December 2,2010. THE MESSAGE IS RIGHT ON! It was written by Thomas M. Hoenig, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City"ThE world has experienced a severe financial crisis and economic…

This was first published in  November 2008 We are at a watershed moment in our economic history. We are in a recession but the way we do business after the recovery will be different from the post-recoveries over the last 70-years.In the past, we…

For some time I have been trying to understand why the stock market has recovered significantly since the crash of 2008/2009 while the housing market is still falling.Well, I finally arrived at a premise that makes some sense. It is supply and…

Mr. President, how stupid can you get?"He is a top executive at JPMorgan Chase, where he is paid as much as $5 million a year and supervises the Washington lobbying efforts for the nation’s second largest bank. William M. Daley also serves on the…

There is an old saying, “I can’t lay eggs but I know a good one from a bad one.”The results of G20 pretty much destroyed the basic premise of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s education policy stated in his article called “Back to School:…

As a nation that was founded by mostly Christians, one of our core principles is that it is a morale obligation of those that have been blessed with superior talents and gifts to help the needy. This includes providing basic health care to those who…

I find it very interesting that conservative talk show hosts who say that Obama wants to surrender some of our governance to the United Nations are the same people who claim we have done nothing to cause the Palestinians, and much of the Muslim…

Yesterday, I had an interesting conversation on a Tea Party website about how the oligopoly in Wall Street has had a detrimental affect onour economy and that the government should be enforcing anti-trust laws to break up the choke hold this…