Posts Tagged ‘s&p’

Obama’s rousing economy speech

April 19th, 2011 | No Comments

A few days ago President Obama delivered his vision of the 2012 budget.  It was less than well received: The Republicans, as expected, weren’t too pleased with it either. Here it is if you want to watch it before discussing any further: Now, the main gripe was, as per the norm with Obama, it had [...]

Reaction to Obama’s state of the union

February 25th, 2009 | No Comments

Reaction to Obama’s speech in the media is about as predictable as you’d expect.  Fox is finding all kinds of problems with it, CNN is lauding how their poll reaction was.  MSNBC couldn’t contain themselves during the Republican response.  I’d run a poll here, but I know most of my readers don’t like Obama, so [...]

Harry Reid and the Dow, part II

February 10th, 2009 | 2 Comments

Harry Reid predicted last week that if the Senate did not pass the stimulus package that day, the Dow would crash.  They didn’t pass it, the Dow went up 200 points.  Last night the Senate passed a critical vote, to cut off debate and schedule a vote on the stimulus package.  This is the preamble [...]