Category: politics

President Barack Obama’s Soaring Stock Market »

If you did the smart thing and invested in the stock market in 2009 because we finally had a Democrat in the White House again then you are likely very wealthy today.
The Dow has gained 5867 points over the past two years since it bottomed out at 6,509 on March 9th of 2009 (this was […]

Health Care Reform Is Essential For The US Economy »

Reform Is Essential
Health care reform is essential not only because our current health care system is broken as far as the health of the American people (we rank below every other western country in health care outcomes and we rank 50th in life expectancy) but because our current system will eventually bankrupt our entire […]

What Are The Right Wing Loonies Protesting With Their “Tea Bagging” Protests? »

Consider this: President Obama plans on signing into the law the largest middle class tax cut in US history. He also wants to raise taxes on the richest 5% of Americans (those making more than a quarter million dollars a year) to the rate they were at in the 1990s under President Clinton (and if […]

How Much Lower Can The Stock Market Go? »

I wish I could say that we are now at a “bottom” but I don’t think we can say that with any real confidence. There’s a chance the stock market will continue to go down for quite some time.
And I wouldn’t trust the folks at CNBC either.
The fact is, the economy will probably keep getting […]

The Bush Recession (Depression?) »

This post on the Huffington Post has me thinking about the current economic crisis and how dangerous it is on many levels (including politically.)
It’s important to remember that this economonic down turn has absolutely nothing to do with our current President and everything to do with the inept Bush administration. It’s so important because we […]