A CNN poll said 75% of U.S. citizens will not watch the royal wedding. ABC’s own online poll currently shows (as I write this) 427 are not “excited about the royal wedding”, 185 said yes they were “excited”.
Here in eastern Idaho a local TV station (KIFI, Idaho Falls) did their own local poll, the […] Continue Reading…
Sony is now being sued in the United States, by customers who’re upset that it took Sony more than a week to notify users of the biggest breach of security in Sony’s history.
The FBI’s Cyber Crimes Unit is now investigating. More than 77 million user accounts might have compromised, including credit card data.
U.S. led NATO warplanes bombed Libyan rebels, yet again.
Dr Hasan Malitan, who witnessed the accident, said Wednesday’s air strike hit a building where the rebels were holed up, killing 12 of them. This is at least the third time NATO has bombed the very people they’re supposed to be supporting.
The north eastern areas of Honshu, devastated by the March 11 disasters, will suffer major flooding.
The Land Ministry says the 9.0 earthquake caused a huge portion of the coast off Miyagi Prefecture, to sink. Many parts are now at or below sea level.
The ministry used lasers to check ground height on the Sendai Plain, […] Continue Reading…
Several big corporations who make products from soap to diapers, say they must pass on the higher prices they’ve been paying for raw materials.
“I don’t want to get into shoulda, coulda, woulda; but if you step back, if we didn’t have $1.8 billion in commodity cost increases this year, we would have […] Continue Reading…
“Why wasn’t the Fed providing these same sweetheart deals to the American people? The Fed was practicing socialism for the rich, powerful and the connected, while the federal government was promoting rugged individualism to everyone else.”-Warren Gunnels, adviser to Senator Bernie Sanders
The Federal Reserve is a privately run bank. It operates […] Continue Reading…
The Commodities Market “…is sending us the mother of all price signals. The prices of all important commodities except oil declined for 100 years until 2002, by an average of 70%. From 2002 until now, this entire decline was erased by a bigger price surge than occurred during World War II.”-Jeremy […] Continue Reading…
Despite years of denial, the Federal Reserve ( a privately run bank) is now saying inflation is a concern: “If we are going to have success in creating a long-run sustainable recovery with lots of job growth, we have to keep inflation under control.”-Ben Bernanke, Federal Reserve Chairman
The problem is so […] Continue Reading…
Job analysts were shocked Thursday, April 28, when the weekly first time unemployment claims jumped by 25,000.
“This is a major disappointment because it’s another move in the wrong direction. This is more than just a misstep for the job market. It’s a signal that the robust job growth we’ve seen recently is poised […] Continue Reading…
“Purchases are really dropping off by the end of the month even more than last year. This end-of-month [purchases] cycle is growing to be a concern.”-Mike Duke, CEO WalMart
WalMart executives are doubting claims of an economic recovery, because their sales are down.
Most WalMart shoppers are low income workers who live paycheck to […] Continue Reading…