The economy is quickly becoming one of the single most important issues for this election. There’s the recent financial nightmares involving Lehman Brothers, Freddi Mac, Fannie May and several other formerly high powered financial companies just about caved in.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson is talking up the President’s 700 Billion dollar super bailout plan. He’s saying how it was the least costly option like he was choosing Delta faucets over solid gold bathroom fixtures.

I see that the headlines are now screaming that we’re headed for “RECORD DEFICIT IN 2009″. What’s annoying about it is that the news story I read leads the reader to believe that it’s entirely because of the sagging economy and the stimulus payments to 130 million households.

After years of people trying, Arkansas finally has the issue of a state lottery on the November ballot. For years now people in Arkansas have been going to neighboring states to buy lottery tickets. This is money that, if Arkansas had it’s own lottery, would not need to be leaving the state and [...]

With the news coming out about some brain trust deciding to predict that gasoline could reach seven dollars a gallon in a couple of years, there’s already a domino effect of bad news spreading out from it.
Financial types are worried about nearly everything and it’s showing on the stock market as the Dow Jones industrials [...]

As you might guess from the title of this entry, I am indeed drawing a direct connection between Big Oil and the state of the economy. I suppose some may think that it’s unfair of me to lay the majority of this nations and even the world’s economic troubles at the feet of Big [...]

Well, According to the latest from President Bush the economy may have slowed, but it’s something that they’ve planned for (I guess now that’s the reason for the stimulus package… didn’t used to be mind.. but it is now) and the stimulus package will take care of everything. The idea is that if only [...]

Now we have word from the president himself that we’re not headed into a recession…..
BUSH: U.S. NOT HEADED INTO RECESSION
President Bush said Thursday that the country is not headed into a recession and, despite expressing concern about slowing economic growth, rejected for now any additional stimulus efforts.

… the problem with this is that it’s *almost* [...]

Really, when you think about it just a little bit, you’ll see that it’s painfully easy to stop the onset of a recession or whatever term is currently being used to describe the economy going south. It’s all a matter of not acting on negative news prematurely. Yes, you want to be prepared [...]