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Jeff Poor
Jeff Poor | March 5, 2009

Finally after five straight down days for the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA), it rallied back 149 points to finish at 6,875 on March 4.

 

Was it just a bear market rally or were investors starting gain a little confidence…

Jeff Poor | March 5, 2009

It was just a matter of time.

 

The goons at Comedy Central finally got the opportunity to sharpen their knives and cut into CNBC Chicago Mercantile Exchange floor reporter Rick Santelli for his Feb. 19 anti-federal government…

Jeff Poor | March 3, 2009

In February, in the build up to the ultimate passage of President Barack Obama’s $787-billion stimulus package, there was a lot of discussion about how much the stimulus was going to help the ailing economy. And to promote the bill, Obama…

Jeff Poor | March 3, 2009

It was news media conventional wisdom during the 2008 presidential campaign: the worse the economy, the better it was for Democrat candidate prospects. But now that they have the legislative and executive branches and the burden of actually…

Jeff Poor | March 2, 2009

Reagan called them the nine scariest words when uttered together: “I’m from the government and I’m here to help.”

That is unless the government comes in the form of President Barack Obama, who’s policy responses during the economic downturn…

Jeff Poor | March 2, 2009

Not everyone in the media is sold on the idea the President Barack Obama has all the answers to America’s economic woes.

Throughout the 2008 presidential campaign, media pundits dwelled on how Democrat candidates traditionally fared…