The Bank Holiday and the One Trick Pony

To understand why a bank holiday is coming you have to look at the last bank holiday we had in May, 1933.
On March 5, 1933 President Franklin Roosevelt declared a US Bank Holiday and closed all the US banks for 4 days. During this time, President Roosevelt successfully stopped the runs on US banks that […]

National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare

What is happening to Social Security payments for next year is going to lead to a terrible hardship on all retirees collecting Social Security. Show your support and go to National Committee to Preserve Social Security & Medicare and sign  up.  The cost is only $12 for a very worthy cause.
Steve McKeon

Let them eat cake!

From harvest reports coming in now, I believe that there is an imminent worldwide food shortage coming. Actions and comments such as the one attributed to Marie Antoinette being made by other world leaders will also lead to revolutions similar to what happened in France in 1789. Daily reports are coming in now with titles […]

Top 10 vehicles bought by people trading clunkers

The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
“As of Friday, car buyers in the U.S. had signed deals to trade in 358,851 clunkers for new vehicles, getting rebates of up to $4,500 (U.S.) from the U.S. government. Most of the trades have been pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles. The top 10 vehicles purchased by those making […]

Here is an idea to solve our economic crises.

Since this website is aimed at family and friends, I am going to get back up on my soapbox and state what I would do to stop this craziness.
War:
The 2009 US military budget is going to come in around $651.2 billion. This is over eight times larger than the military budget of China (see the […]

A Dead Cat’s Bounce

A Dead Cat’s Bounce, a term used on the stock market since around 1985, describes a temporary rise in a stock after a large decline. Immediately after the bounce, the stock continues its downward trend implying a similarity to a cat falling from a great height, hitting the ground hard and then bouncing into the […]