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*The Libya attack on the U.S. Consulate has stirred up the Middle East and also the U.S. elections. The attacks in Benghazi were tragic and required the U.S. to stand up and respond. The president and Secretary of State took to their podiums and condemned the attacks of those who were responsible, but Romney took [...]
*Twenty years after I graduated from college I still owe student loans. And since I didn’t’ owe enough, I went back to school and got a master’s degree with borrowed money. My mother keeps asking me to get a PHD, but I’m not going to pay anybody else to tell me how smart I am, [...]
*President Barack Obama has a lot of money. The Prez and his first lady, Michelle Obama, hold assets totaling between $2.6 million and almost $8.3 million, according to a recently released financial report. In 2010, the couple’s assets were valued between $1.8 million and $12 million. Since the presidential debates have heated up, Mitt Romney’s [...]
*Rap mogul Jay-Z said today he will perform two concerts at Carnegie Hall in February to raise money for his scholarship foundation and United Way of New York City – and he’s set the ticket prices from $500 to $2,500 in a deliberate attempt to woo wealthy individuals, such as hedge-fund executives and others tied [...]
*It has been a month since the protesters have settled in all over the world to protest the Wall Street bankers that have essentially turned the world’s economy upside down. Things in New York got a little violent over the weekend though as protesters were met with excessive force from New York’s finest. (more…)
*The who’s who of activism showed for the Martin Luther King, Jr. unveiling of his memorial on the mall and some of them were there doing double duty. The Wall Street protests have been going on all over the planet with several people going to the Supreme Court to have their say. According to the [...]
*Why is the American economy in trouble? Consider the following scenarios. Situation 1: The most basic aspect of economics is that Smith produces some product that others want. Perhaps he owns an apple orchard. Depending on how many people want those apples and how fast Smith can get his apples to a market, a price [...]
*Brooklyn rapper Fabolous rang the NASDAQ stock market opening bell Monday on behalf of his alliance with a charity linked to California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The artist has been made a National Music Ambassador of the After-School All-Stars, a non-profit organization founded by Schwarzenegger in 1992 to provide free after-school activities to over 80,000 kids [...]
*While none were as dramatic as the Dow Jones’ wild swing on Thursday, stocks fell around the world during the U.S. overnight as a bailout package for Greece failed to calm fears of a debt crisis. Japan’s Nikkei 225 Index dropped 3.1 percent, the MSCI Asia Pacific Index dropped 1.7 percent. The Stoxx Europe 600 [...]
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