Stock markets are strange because they reflect the sum total of all our hopes, fears and prejudices at the end of each day. Every so often something big comes along that can have very strong influence on the stock market, and the direction the market is going to take. Bear markets when they do come, come out of nowhere. Everybody…
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Decision 2006 Is The Republican Cut Run And Scare Strategy Running On Fumes
Over the course of George Bush’s six years in office it has become abundantly clear that Mr. Bush and his cronies are in a state of “willful denial” about the worsening situation in Iraq….and so is a large chunk of the American public, willingly or due to misleading partisan information. As the temperature rises and with less than 5 weeks…
Why Democrats Should Fund The War
Democrats will be making a profound mistake if they follow through on Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid’s insistence that the party will refuse to provide any funding for the war in Iraq, absent some benchmarks for withdrawal of our troops at least by September 2008. To be sure, as everyone knows, the American people quite strongly support the notion of…