In case you missed it, I posted this story last night here on LJ.

Reuters: Oil rises 3 percent to above $76 on U.S. supply outage
By David Sheppard
NEW YORK | Fri Sep 10, 2010 4:46pm EDT

U.S. crude rose 3 percent to hit a four-week high above $76 a barrel on Friday following the shutdown of a major pipeline supplying Canadian oil to the United ( Read more... )

Crossposted to the_recession and ontd_political, where it is awaiting moderation posted here.

Red Orbit: US Birth Rates Affected By Economic Downturn
Posted on: Friday, 27 August 2010, 14:05 CDT

Health officials said Friday that the economy may be causing some women to think twice about having children as the birth rate in 2009 declined for the second year in a row.

The ( Read more... )

kaligreeneyes and I went out to Ann Arbor today. On the way back home, we drove through our old stomping grounds north of town. I flipped off our former residence as we cruised past it on the freeway; we are beyond glad to see it behind us. Then we dropped off the cable box from that place at Charter's office in Hamburg. It was such a relief to be rid of it. ( Read more... )

Here is something I posted over in unfunnybusiness over on JournalFen and decided to share with my flist here on LJ.

Last week, cassildra posted about the federal government's takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and how it scared her silly. This weekend, the possible End of Banking As We Know It (tm) continued with the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, the ( Read more... )