NEWS: Wall St Week Ahead – Market stalls but no stress signs yet
Monday, June 6th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »(Reuters) - More bad days might be available for stocks in coming days, but traders aren't pressing the stress button. Not. With weak job growth and also the finish from the Federal Reserve's stimulus program looking traders hard, the five percent ...
Michigan’s Troubled Economy: It Could Be Worse
Tuesday, June 8th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »DETROIT -- Bad news on the automotive front pushed Michigan's October unemployment rate up to 7.7%. The jobless rate is the state's highest in 15 years (see chart above, click to enlarge), two-tenths of a percentage point higher than September's ...
Oil’s Perfect Storm May Finally Blow Over
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »UK Daily Telegraph --The perfect storm that has swept oil prices to $132 a barrel may subside over the coming months as rising crude supply from unexpected corners of the world finally comes on stream, just as the global economic ...
Forget Ethanol, What About Canada’s Oil-Sands?
Saturday, May 22nd, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »At a time when saying anything good about fossil fuels is like declaring war on the environment, it may seem like wishful thinking to press for an expansion of U.S. oil refining capacity. Yet it is precisely this sort of ...
Big Oil Is Not the Problem, It’s Big Government
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »Congressional ignorance of basic laws of supply and demand is at once bizarre, breathtaking and frightening. For example, in a speech delivered by New York Democratic Sen. Chuck Schumer on May 13, he urged the U.S. to force Saudi Arabia ...
1st Significant Increase in Int’l Students in US Since 9/11: India, China, Korea Lead
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »WASHINGTON D.C. -- The number of international students enrolled in colleges and universities in the United States increased by 3% to a total of 582,984 in the 2006-07 academic year, according to the Institute of International Education (IIE). This ...
