India just made a move on China to to protect India's domestic manufacturing of finished textiles. They are smart enough to see the impact of China's taste for capitalism. China is bad? ......the bad is all the companies in the world who are taking industry from their sovereign homeland and moving it to China. Import/E...more

By the comments listed it seems we have a much bigger problem than Wall Street greed. I just secured a job on August 15 after being out of work for over a year......unemployed ​ ​ for the first time in my forty plus years working.......Do the math...I am not a kid. I made finding a job my new job...took a one year ...more

They say....whoever "they" are that the stock market can and is manipulated by a relatively small band of thieves.....I'm a 401K and now an IRA man like most Americans, attempting to practice "dollar cost averaging".....I wish I had more disposable income to buy the hell out of my three funds.  The rest of the morons w...more

To all the fine Americans submitting comments. Maybe all we have are folks like you who take the time to type words like I do now.    50+  years ago the average citizen had no clue what was going on....Chet Huntley, David Brinkley, Walter Cronkite (my favorite) seem to deliver the messages in a comforting way......".I...more

Okay.....so now that the reporters have stomped on what little hope we had for some modicum of improvement in the housing market.....is there any "expert" out there who can forecast some optimism to the housing situation?   No...I'm not burying my head from the reality of the housing market but even us dummies know...more

This comes from a working class man......father was at Normandy.....returne ​ d alive and did his best for his family.  Two of three children graduated from college and experienced the American Dream to a respectable degree. I am sick and tired of pundents.....talking ​ heads....telling us how bad things are in thi...more

gb1863 has a very good point; it's ironic that pump prices take forever to recede in response to crude price drops, but a couple of dooms day forecasts from the major networks and BAM! Look I know it's difficult for some people to do this but I say it again.....DRIVE LESS - CALCULATE A FUEL BUDGET AND STICK TO IT - ...more

Hey Brutus 625, No argument from me on your opinion; keep one thing in mind..... the last time this happened the public did one thing the oil companies and political special interest people thought they would not do.......STOP DRIVING! Enough Americans started thinking before jumping in the car and driving downtown...more

Once again, if the lead comment in this article featured the paragraph on Consumer Confidence being on the rise the market may not fall to the influence of this articles writers. If the media and talking heads think "glass is half full" the public will respond in kind and help our economic recovery.......by the way t...more