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US and World Markets fall and Congress looks for blame.
Today’s markets plummted around the world reacting to the bailout bill, worries about the broader credit markets, and the lack of reaction by most Western governments to what is undoubtedly a broadening financial crunch around the world. Panic swept through the world’s financial markets, wiping $2.5 trillion from share values, amid concern that regulators and politicians were struggling to get a grip on the worsening crisis of confidence.
Republican Jobs: Senior Media Relations/Communications Professional - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD)
Senior Media Relations/Communications Professional - The Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), a non-profit, non-partisan policy institute focused on defeating terrorism and promoting democratic values, seeks candidates to lead our communications and media relations department. This person will manage the day-to-day operations of FDD’s press office and will work across the organization to enhance coverage [...]
Reform, not Rescue… Buy in, not Bail Out.
This is a restructuring, not a rescue. It’s a buy in, not a bailout. Congress and the White House need to realize that this effort’s main goal is the stabilization of the financial markets and the recapitalization of the financial system. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to Wall Street. It is not the time to take the taxpayer’s money and give it to homeowners who can’t pay their mortgages. We’re taking the taxpayers money and correcting an error we should have corrected over five years ago - making the markets more transparent and ensuring that people who benefit from risky deals also assume the downside to those deals when they go bad.
Who the heck reads this blog anyways?
For some time now, I’ve used various tracking software to get a sense of who reads my blog, and why. In part, I’ve tried to make better blog postings from the data. In part, it just satisfies curiosity and provides an ego boost. But it does reveal some things about the nature of the internet, [...]
Fight the smears - Obama tries to swift-boat Republicans?
I was listening to Limbaugh most of the week, and I must admit not until this afternoon was I able to visit the “famous” www.fightthesmears.com website, set up by the Barrack Obama campaign.
The purpose of this website is clear - intimidation of the “rightosphere” and conservative talk radio. The website picks out specific blogs to [...]
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