It now appears the inventory adjustment is over. Further growth in inventories will depend on increases in underlying demand. This is part of the 2nd half slowdown forecast.
These states look forward to a diminished workforce. What jobs there are may involve taking care of the elderly. Needless to say, state GDP will suffer.
In order to hide the true size of the oil volcano in the Gulf Of Mexico the FAA has banned all flights over a large swath of the ocean. This is a very ominous turn of events and does not bode well for a happy outcome. Here is the map.
In order to hide the true size of the oil volcano in the Gulf Of Mexico the FAA has banned all flights over a large swath of the ocean. This is a very ominous turn of events and does not bode well for a happy outcome.
Are you ready for interesting times and an exodus from the United States? A possibly apocryphal ancient Chinese curse goes "May you live in interesting times."
He’s concerned about the prospect of inflation, of FHA repeating the mistakes of Fannie and Freddie, and the cost to business from the new healthcare law. “We’re on our way to Greece, in the hands of a confused, foolish government,” Wynn says. “It’s
It seems you can’t navigate the Internet without bumping into an Obama-Jimmy Carter comparison. There’s something in the air that smells distinctly like peanuts. Is Barack Obama one of the Fabulous Furry Peanut Brothers?
For decades it was an axiom of conservative faith that international Communism was and must be a monolith, that Communism in all its aspects and manifestations was simply pure evil (because it was "atheistic" and/or totalitarian by definition), and t
This weekend we have a chance to observe what I hope will be one of the lasting fruits of all this: Judge Andrew Napolitano, senior judicial analyst at the FOX News Channel, will premiere the television version of his program, Freedom Watch. Up to no
"Our country's outstanding public debt is huge. Our public finances have become the worst of any developed country. We cannot sustain public finance that overly relies on issuing bonds.
Brazilian-American filmmaker Iara Lee, a passenger on board the Mavi Marmara, managed to smuggle an hour of footage taken during the May 31 attack on a six-ship humanitarian flotilla bound for Gaza by the Israeli Defense Forces.
Anderson Cooper has been on top of this disaster for weeks, and he does a good job covering the story. Here he interviews an expert in the area of flow rates. The bottom line from the expert is that we have been lied to from day one.
Analysts at Bank of America/Merrill Lynch are out with a new, thorough report on BP and the effect of the Deepwater Horizon disaster. There's a lot in this that we'll keep mining through, but we thought we'd present what the firm sees...
“…had they not at the urging of the President, assented to the dissolution of the courts of appeal, including the Supreme Court? Sections of the press had only too delightedly danced in the wake of the debased Government, shouting that the “enemies o
Dr. Morrison provided compelling evidence in the 1960s that heart and blood vessel disease could be reversed and prevented with natural molecules, particularly chondroitin sulfate. This was over 20 years prior to the advent of the first cholesterol-r
ON THE west coast of India, near the city of Mumbai, lies a tortured landscape. Faults score the ground, earthquakes are rife, and boiling water oozes up from below forming countless hot springs.
On the island of Hokkaido, in the cold northern reaches of the Japanese archipelago, the indigenous Ainu people too have their long traditions of an ancient race of dwarf-like people thought to have inhabited the land long before humans arrived.
Satellite photos of a suspicious site in Syria are providing new support for the reporting of a Syrian journalist who briefly rocked the world with his reporting that Iraq’s WMD had been sent to three sites in Syria just before the invasion commenced
Two Military Officials, Two Contractors and Contracting Company Indicted for Alleged Roles in Bribery and Money Laundering Scheme Related to DOD Contract in Afghanistan
All of the spending on unnecessary wars adds up.
The U.S. is adding trillions to its debt burden to finance its multiple wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Yemen, etc.
Public sector spending - and mainly defense spending - has accounted for virtually all o
The rabid calls for co-ordinated implementation of naked body scanners in airports across the planet, in the wake of the failed underwear bombing, will result in huge profits for the military industrial complex.
British musician Roger Waters of the iconic rock band Pink Floyd sings a new version of “We Shall Overcome” in a music video cut to footage from the upcoming documentary, “Roadmap to Apartheid."
"What BP drilled into was what we call a 'migration channel,' a deep fault on which hydrocarbons generated in the depth of our planet migrate to the crust and are accumulated in rocks, something like Ghawar in Saudi Arabia."
Whether wittingly or witlessly, President Barack Obama is pursuing a neocon-charted path on Iran that parallels the one that George W. Bush took to war with Iraq – ratcheting up sanctions against the “enemy,” refusing to tolerate more peace...
This was further confirmed by Phil Vallentine during his 6/10/10 broadcast in Nashville. He digs very deep before making a statement, so I'm confident that this is accurate.
So, you've gotta think, why would one of the world's largest oil compa