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Exxon's Biofuel Bet

All oil companies are going to have to jump on the alternative fuels bandwagon or be left behind. Watch how many oil companies start to embrace biofuels and natural gas in the near future.

Jobless Recovery: Fasten Your Seatbelts

Recoveries usually are jobless. Employers don't begin hiring or expanding hours for current employees until they have seen the bottom line increase and are certain that the recovery is real. By the time unemployment rates begin to go lower, the recovery has been well under way for some time. Will employment recover eventually? Of course, it always does.

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We're Due for a Serious Pullback

The fundamentals are different this time. Corporate profits are up, the housing market has started to rebound and unemployment has bottomed. Consumer confidence is up and people have started to spend money again which will continue to help corporate profits. Most of the bad loans have been written down. I think we are poised for a recovery which I hope will be slow and strong.

Grading the Stimulus Package

Congratulations to the Democrats. They accomplished more of their left-wing agenda in less than a month after inauguration than the republicans did in 6 years in power. They packed this huge spending bill with every left wing policy from abortion to the environment to contraceptives and much more. Then they said we had to pass it so fast that there was no time to read or debate the bill.

When the detractors said it was too big, they left in all of the pork and agenda items and cut some of the stimulus. Now Psuedo republicans can support the bill because it is smaller. Now the democratic politicians can go home. They have taken care of their left-wing special interest groups in one huge piece of legislative payback.

The Republicans aren't much better. They spent 6 years growing the size and cost of government at record rates and then President Bush left office putting through one of the largest and costliest corporate welfare programs in American history.

Teach your children to hold on to their wallets. We'll be paying for this Washington nonsense for generations to come.

The Case for Higher Interest Rates and Lower Home Prices

I am looking to buy a house and both the low home prices and the low interest rates work together to make it easier for me to afford the home. Anyone who thinks that low interest rates don't spur home buying, hasn't been looking to buy a home recently

Let Lehman Fail

Next we bail out the Automakers because they are "too big to fail". Then the airlines. Who's next? My baseball card store? It's definitely too big to fail. Hold on to your wallets!

Some Inconvenient Truths About the McCain and Obama Tax Plans

I would rather have the president concentrate on controlling spending. Then maybe congress could consider tax cuts. Tax cuts are irresponsible when spending is out of control and we are running a deficit and borrowing from the Chinese. If McCain wants my vote, he needs to tell me (and more importantly congress) how he will veto any spending bills that add to the debt.

U6 Unemployment Number Is on the Rise

The free market should be determining interest rates, not the Fed

Google Proves Mortal: Opportunity Knocks?

I'll buy at 375

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Google Launches ValueClick Killer

Googles plan didn't work well. It's already been dumped. Where will they go next?

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