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British Airways has been hit with almost £270 million ($547 million) in fines after reaching settlements with U.S. and UK authorities for price fixing on fuel surcharges. That apparently wasn’t too hard to prove. In the meantime, every single gas station in my town dropped the price of their gas from $2.77 to $2.66 today. [...]

Democrats chided Bush the first few years he was in office as a reckless spender.  Then the economy took off and they sorta dropped it in favor of "taxing the poor and giving big tax breaks to the rich".  The never really got much traction either.  So, Ted Kennedy is pulling out the mother of [...]

Something happened in 2005 that I’ve only seen mentioned in ONE media outlet: For the first time in history, the dow spent an entire year above 10,000.  That never even happened during the Clinton "economic boom".  Where’s the accolades from CNN and all my economic doomsayer buddies?

Almost immediately upon the release of the ANWR decision in the Senate, this happens: Apparently the business sector doesn’t like the events of the last 24 hours any more than I do.

As the price of oil skyrocketed, the pie in the sky hopes of the environmentalists and the pragmatists such as myself started to appear more realistic of finally seeing society accept the concept of alternatives to relying on petroleum.  Yesterday was another important step in that direction: In an announcement made at 11 a.m., Kentucky [...]

Microsoft releases Google rival Search tool to back up each factual query with results from online encyclopedia. I’ve been hearing about this for quite a while.  So, now that it’s here, I decided to give it a quick look-see.  I searched "Moonage Webdream".  Microsoft returned 163 hits, Yahoo returned 421 hits, and Google returned "about" [...]

In the "Better than economists expected" post I made a little while ago, I made the comment of "Given the fact most of the economists I know are predicting the total collapse of the US economy, ANYTHING is better than what "economists" are predicting."  I was immediately corrected by Kent with "Nono Moon….."Nobody" I know….is [...]

Another piece of Debt & Credit, corporation style. By Calpinist from TMF and notes on the Doge vs Ford case around 1919. This was in replay to a piece on teaching proper "Credit Use" in the schools. Interesting take off on that subject: As follows Social Clubs / The Land of Sisu Subject:  Re: The [...]

And so it goes. This piece on the "China Trade" and Wal-Mart, re-posted from TMF and originally found by Mish over there. Enjoy Kentm401 Politics & Current Events / Current Events Subject:  "China Trade" & Wal-mart  Date:  11/30/04 11:23 AM  Author:  kentm401  Number:  98015 of 98024  Interesting post & stats, nicked from mish……China trade estimated [...]

Kmart and Sears are merging.  Excellent move on behalf of both companies.  The plan is to develope a mall based competitor to Walmart.  Excellent move.  Only question I have is what will it be called?  I’m guessing Smarts? – Moon