DOUBLE DIP RECESSION .. maybe the Fed, Congress and the Administration need a wake-up call that the hoarding effect is already underway with the flow of money into Treasury Notes and JOBS drying up on Main Street.  It is time politicians get off their soap boxes and put up their golf clubs and get busy with a fiscal an...more

mtkaboater .. you are right on target.  Oil companies have been flaring natural gas as a by product of oil development.  But oil companies have been resistant to efforts to develop natural gas fields .. Point Thomson on Alaska's North Slope is a perfect example of Big Oil setting on oil and gas leases while they extrac...more

One of the major hurdles for conversion from gasoline to natural gas is that .. the multi-national oil corporations control both oil and natural gas reserves.  Until natural gas is separated from oil, the monopoly hold on energy development will restrain the conversion to natural gas power vehicles.

JPMorgan Chase & Company might be the raw tuna in Japanese sushi .. if the insider trading probe in Japan sinks the hook in this floundering whale.

"Happy Trails Again" .. an old Roy Rogers tune, riding his horse name Trigger.  It was a good thing that Ike was President back in the 50s or else all these youngsters now would be riding pack mules, today.  Come on Congress, before the American people have to get out the whip and start making you sign the "Mule Skinne...more

Classic Lady .. there is a third scenario .. where the Congress blocks any recovery effort of the POTUS .. and even flirts with the default of America's debt .. on items that they voted to spend Public money on and for the debt that has occurred under their management.

Congress has the power of the purse strings .. and can even over-ride a POTUS veto.  We have a dysfunctional Congress that can't agree to limit excessive expenditures or appropriate funds to vital Public infrastructure and necessary investments for American economic well being.  And where does the buck stop on responsi...more

MisterKyte .. I agree that to much attention has been paid to non-essential items before and after the offical start of the Great Recession .. by both political parties.  There was some progress being made for a recovery until the Tea Party confused Congress and have since the 2010 election, blocked any meaningful reco...more

MisterKyte .. bump in the road?  I think the Last POTUS's Treasure Secretary probably bit his tongue with the bouce when he dissolved Leman Bros .. and the panic meeting of all the Big Bankers expecting the run on the banks daje vu of the 1929 stock market crash.  Wake up and smell the roses, this isn't a little mud pu...more