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- Main Street Seeing Worst Credit Crunch Ever
- Earnings Call ExcerptAway from the too-pig-too-fail bailouts and subsidized sectors of the economy, the credit crunch is getting worse, not better. Year-on-year percentage growth in Commercial and Industrial loans, the main source of financing for small business, is at negative 10 percent, the worst during the sixty years...
- Earnings calls 2009-10-29
- Joint Strike Fighter Now Focus Of Budget
- The Obama Administration is relying on the F-35 JSF to meet its schedule and needs. The aircraft has become the key component of their modernization plans and defense budget. by Matthew Potter
- Blog posts 2009-09-02
- Cash For Clunkers Or The F-22?
- The Obama Administration has announced that the three billion dollar "Cash for Clunkers" will end on Monday the 24th of August. They are advising dealers to stop writing these kind of deals. The program supposedly burned through the money in less then six weeks. The program initially...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
- Will The U.S. Follow Europe When It Comes To Defense Spending?
- One of the continuous criticisms of Europe from America has been that the NATO allies and European Union countries don't pull their own weight in defense spending and capability. The United States spends a great deal more in total and Per Capita then these nations. According to this...
- Blog posts 2009-08-03
- Making Money Off Tracking The Stimulus
- There is an old argument about whether the private sector is more efficient then the government. It is true that only the government can carry out certain tasks in society but in many cases the evil profit motive may make an individual or company do something quicker and better....
- Blog posts 2009-07-31
- Silly Season On Spending Getting To Obama's Plans
- The Federal Government buys a great deal of different things. It didn't start off that way two hundred odd years ago but the number of Federal programs and responsibilities have increased exponentially. Congress and the Executive Branch have stuck their noses into lots of things often for good...
- Blog posts 2009-07-21
- NRF Goes Negative on Health Care Reform, Wal-Mart
- It’s letter-writing season at the Nationals Retail Federation, but the correspondence might not be in the organization's best interest. First, in an open letter on the NRF website attacking Wal-Mart’s health care stance, organization CEO Tracy Mullins begins: The word leadership tends be thrown around a...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- F-22 Survival Battle Begins
- The Senate began debating the 2010 Defense Budget and a key topic was the continued production of the F-22 Raptor advance fighter. The Obama Administration has recommended ending production of the aircraft at the 187 currently planned. The Air Force had wanted at least forty odd more to...
- Blog posts 2009-07-14
- Trying To Keep A Good Program Up -- Raptors and Helicopters
- There is no doubt that the ending of any major acquisition program if it either in production or development is difficult. Companies lose a great deal of future money, people lose their jobs, the services feel like they lose capabilities no other system can provide and politicians look weak...
- Blog posts 2009-06-22
- Government Facing Up To The Facts About Future Spending
- Some of those involved in running government are finally realizing that in the near future there won't be as much money available for them to spend. Since the economic recession started tax revenue has fallen dramatically at all levels of local, state and Federal government. The states especially...
- Blog posts 2009-09-08
- Tell The Truth About Medicare Advantage Plan Benefits
- Humana's letter to Medicare Advantage enrollees about the consequences of proposed cutbacks in reimbursement has set off a political storm. The Obama Administration is making a mistake by not leveling with the public. by Ken Terry
- Blog posts 2009-09-23
- America, Land of the Frugal -- And Why That's Bad News
- After years of spending at breakneck speed, Americans have resumed the quaint practice of saving money. Although it might be uplifting to think of the shift as a newfound personal virtue, and it's true that spending on lots of things is down, the numbers suggest the lower spending may be...
- Blog posts 2009-05-12
- The Vanishing American Consumer
- Have Americans given up "retail therapy" for good? A permanent shift could be good for many strapped households — but would spell bad news for the recovery. American consumers have awakened, bolt upright, with belated sticker shock (“I bought what!? I spent how much!?”), from a shopping spree that’s...
- Articles 2009-09-15
- The Squeeze on Jumbo Mortgages
- While home loans in general have responded well to the Federal Reserve's efforts to lower interest rates, that's not true of the plus-sized loans the industry calls jumbo mortgages. That's because the secondary market for jumbos has been largely wiped out by the crisis. As a result, if you are...
- Articles 2009-05-04
- Jagdish Bhagwati: The Perils of Protectionism
- The respected global economist on America's growing and alarming me-first attitude, and how well the Obama administration is acquitting itself on global trade issues. Do you see a resurgence of economic nationalism in the U.S., or elsewhere? Protectionist...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- Obama Aims at Small Businesses
- The Obama administration is pouring money into a bailout aimed at small businesses, hoping to jump start job creation. Joel Brown reports from Washington.
- Videos 2009-03-16
- Banking System Overhaul
- The Obama administration is preparing for a busy week mobilizing its economic policy. As Bianca Solorzano reports, embattled Treasury Secretary Geithner will unveil details of a new banking plan.
- Videos 2009-03-22
- Predicting the 2020 EV Market: Consider the Wild Cards
- It’s always fun to predict the future, and the beauty is that if you are projecting far enough ahead no one’s likely to remember what you’d saidâ€"even if turned out to be egregiously wrong. How many battery electric vehicles, plug-in hybrids and just plain hybrids will sell...
- Blog posts 2009-10-15
- Clay Christensen: Competition Doesn't Drive Prices Down
- Even though I've heard him say it before, the words from Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen always bring me up short. Speaking to a group of health care professionals recently, Christensen said: "Competition doesn't drive prices down." In fact, he said prices increase 8...
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Healthcare Business Looking Bleak With Possible Government Intervention
- There are very few businesses and industries in the United States that the Federal Government is the major customer. Granted its spends a great deal of money on many things but other then defense spending it hardly makes up the bulk of customers. Now with the Obama administration...
- Blog posts 2009-06-12
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