Hey Endeavor,   The interest rate increase is too much of a shock to the overall economy so Romney proposes to phase in increases and not do what Obama is trying to do to buy the election which is to propose massive forgiveness of student debt that only serves to reward poor decisions in studying majors that are wo...more

Gary Myers and Stuck in Kansas:   I guess the democrat controlled congress from 2007 had nothing to do with the decline in the economy.  Curiously, when the democrats became in control of congress, that's when things went downhill.  When are you going to recognize that the credit crisis resulted from lending to peo...more

The reason wht Anthony is right about a June QE3 is because Obama will need a boost inthe stock market to get re-elected.  Howeve, the boost will be dampened by the prospect of Obama ending the 15% dividend rate if he is re-elected.

By the negative response to my earlier comments, this is a decidedly liberal writing space with regards to this writer.  The sharp increase from 2008 is bunk.  How much of that severe drop in 2008 was due to the market panic that occurred as a result of the anticipation of a unfriendly administraiton to business.  I se...more

The only upward movement in the stock market will be realized when Obamacare is declared unconstitutional and if Helicopter Ben continues Operation Twist in order to to try to get the Community Organizer in Chief or Mr. Flexibiity re-elected.

Strong U.S. economy?  One million people have left the workforce? Oh come on, how much in the tank is the website and Jubak in for Obama? Gasoline at the price level it is and high dividend paying stocks losing value in the last 2 weeks?

Anthony, you are lazy for writing yet another worthless article.  Your batting average on worthy business columns is about the Mendoza line.

The other  CEO who should get a pay cut is the person who runs the MSN website which keeps publishing all of this left wing drivel.  The merger was supposed to make a more profitable combined company.  Over the intermediate term, there will be job costs at both companies to stay competitive.

This sounds like a now typical Jubak article that is hoping that the correction that will ultimately take place will be now and then recover during election season and thereby allow Obama to return to office.   Being a monetarist, as long as the floodgates of monetary policy are wide open, with reserve percentages and ...more