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Economy – The Outlook Is Your Outlook
The vast central swath through the middle of the American political spectrum representing a majority, seeks reasonableness from government. The majority expects its business to be conducted with some integrity, without the encumbrance of concrete boots of left or right extremism demanded by party affiliation. This expectation of common sense, and forthrightness has not... »
Do Not Believe The Pundits On China’s Century
China has created a massive middle class in a single generation, but it has yet to empower it. China will not soon be supplanting Americans, or Europeans, in the mall line-ups yearning for China-made-American-invented-branded-and-engineered products. American consumers are unconsciously pushing back the clock on that empowerment of the Chinese middle class through their dramatic... »
Demography and Economy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Demography and Economy: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Gordon E. Finley, Ph.D. The release on March 18, 2009, of preliminary childbirth data from the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) for 2007 has yielded mixed news – some good but most providing troubling insight into potentially crippling problems for American society and the American economy.... »
Obama, The Third Tell
Previous articles I have submitted observing certain “tells,” have hopefully laid useful stepping-stones in the analysis of Obama’s attitude or inclinations towards the nation he leads. The President has just delivered another significant reveal.?? During an attempt to turn positive in contrast to his consistent negative affirmations on the economy since his election, Obama said... »
America’s Overnight Transformation
The centerpiece of the Administration’s rushed, colossal bailout and stimulus program is the taxpayer support of the nation’s 20 largest banks. Treasury Secretary Geithner, former Federal Reserve Bank of New York President, is Obama’s point man on the aggressive plan to bolster the financial system. As he leads the charge to inject hundreds of... »
Consumers And Volatile Oil Prices
Consumers across North America daily check the wildly fluctuating prices of gasoline at their favorite neighborhood stations. Magically, prices change at all those pumps in unison. Just as strangely, pump prices have not dropped in step with the currently defeated price of crude.

 Price of crude oil today floats around USD$35 per barrel, down severely... »
A New And Different Shattering Of Assumptions
Will the best-connected voices, the CEOs cap-in-hand, be the most rewarded in the bailout line-up? The taxpayer will continue to borrow trillions of dollars to enable these bailouts of Wall Street, and it will be left to our children and grandchildren to figure out how these debts will be repaid. Can’t we... »
Bernanke And The Perpetuating Credit Card Swindle
“Don’t get yourselves in a knot over this one-half-of-one-percent-rate thing on the sub-slime, I mean sub-prime interest rate the Fed charges its friends, and quit wondering why you can’t get in on that good stuff. It doesn’t concern you, and has nothing to do with you. Never has, never will. That rate has no... »
Obama – The Second Tell
As follow-up to a November 21, ’08 article regarding signs that may reveal the direction that an Obama Presidency might take, the following presents another “tell.†This one is less innocuous, but may prove to be more expensive to America.

 Perceptions inside the current White House, when Bush and Cheney took office, were that incurring... »
Recession? Depression? Deflation? Inflation?
The world of internet search has become a reasonable gauge of a population’s concerns. Obama has almost disappeared from the top of the list and has been replaced by the economy. The shift suggests more than an elemental change in unfolding interests. The first has been a result of serious preoccupation with the new face... »
Spain-based Santander agrees to purchase of UK bank Alliance & Leicester
Alliance & Leicester (A&L), a major UK bank, has agreed to a deal regarding its sale to Banco Santander, a banking company based in Spain. The deal, which is worth £1.2 billion, means that shareholders will receive one share in Santander for every three shares they hold in A&L. Santander said in a statement that... »
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