This is today's headline in the business section of the local newspaper, The Oregonian. The sectors that took the biggest hits were finance and managed care. This supports my conviction that Obama will serve big business interests less than Romney would. Suits me, even though my tiny retirement fund is shrinking again.

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https://www.mint.com/
Site for online account management and budgeting. Anybody know anything about it? So far I've heard good things but as always, with anything online, the greatest concern is security... I'm interested but will probably start very small. My spreadsheet budget has its

I recently started following Seth Godin's blog and have been enjoying it. Today's email missive is On pricing power at http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2011/02/on-pricing-power.html. It helps clarify a goal for my approach to my business: ( Read more... )

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This video is over 2 hours long and starts with a bunch of sound effects and histrionics--but soon does settle down into some more rational reporting on what is happening in the world, and in America. I'm sorry to say that much as I adore Obama on some levels, he is failing us. His policies in finance are no different from those of Shrub, and we ( Read more... )

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People get alarmed about Ron Paul's platform because it includes some quite extreme measures, given our current situation. Here he addresses how he would go about changing our money systems, and acknowledges the risk inherent in going against the monetary powers that be, who are much invested in the status quo. This man is not crazy as people ( Read more... )