Setting fire to tap water is BS.   It is not a product of fracking.   This happens in areas where no drilling has ever occured.

"It seems the global economy just isn't responding to cheap-money stimulus anymore" That means the left is out of ideas.   Time for an actual change.

Wolann,  We will ignore the obvious trail that lead from clinton and the dems to the housing crash and just go with your "bush did it" stance.   What has Obama done differently? Tarp.   nope he spent the second half of that wars no didn't get out very fast bailouts.  just like tarp Obamacare.  yep thats different...more

I live in a farming area.  They never throw things away.  Most of today's farmers are still farming because they scraped every dime they could out of their farm.  Farms fail all the time.  Less in the grains and more in the dairy industry right now but they are stlll failing.  I know of 5 people who quit milking cows t...more

This is not over.  This will continue as the nation sinks into economic despair.

So they take out a loan to make money.  They are risking their own company and assets in that case.  Obama taxes the gains they get at a high rate making it harder for the company to pay off the loan.  Why risk your wealth if you don't get the return?   I don't spend a dollar on the lottery when the payoff is 3 bucks a...more

Companies go out of business all the time.  I don't thing the unions were the main cause but they didn't help.  The current obsession with living healthy is more to blame.  The company was doomed anyway.  Disposable income is going to drop as the US economy gets worse due to the dept problem.  That would kill the brand...more

Down to pre-election levels is still high for these stocks.  Obama can push them back up very easily by talking gun control.  The media is also very good at selling guns when they talk about gun control as the did surrounding the Zimmerman case.

Great we are told when one person decides to try and work with Obamacare.  Will we be told if his attempt fails and puts him out of business and his employees in welfare lines?  Not likely.  This scenario is also assuming status quo among the rest of the nation.  If he makes it work for a time and the places his custom...more