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2009-02-10 Home Front Economy

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Posted by tipper 2009-02-10 12:56|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 This is not a plan. This is a commitment to throw money at banks, bad mortgages and whoever.

Posted by DoDo 2009-02-10 14:05|| 2009-02-10 14:05|| Front Page Top

#2 A bit of irony here: The One visited Elkhart Indiana a blue-collar town of 53,000 that builds RVs ($55k to $600k range) for the wealthy and has seen its unemployment rate triple from 4.7 percent to more than 15 percent. If we can only get this diabolical wealthy people buying expensive RV's again, we'll be fine! For some reason, the rich bastards just won't SPEND!!!

Posted by Besoeker 2009-02-10 14:23|| 2009-02-10 14:23|| Front Page Top

#3 New Coke!

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-02-10 17:00|| 2009-02-10 17:00|| Front Page Top

#4 Geithner announced his plan and the market tanked. Way to go, Tim ...

Posted by Steve White 2009-02-10 17:01|| 2009-02-10 17:01|| Front Page Top

#5 Stocks logged their worst performance since a 5.3% loss on Jan. 20 as investors dumped stocks after Treasury Secretary Geithner failed to deliver the specifics

Hmm. What happened on Jan 20? Bueller? Anyone?

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-02-10 18:06|| 2009-02-10 18:06|| Front Page Top

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