The President’s Weekly On location in Detroit
Since GM and Chrysler emerged from bankruptcy, our auto industry has added 55,000 jobs — the strongest period of job growth in more than 10 years. For the first time since 2004, all three American automakers are operating at a profit. Sales have begun to rebound. This week, the White House communications team rolled out [...]
Eclectique Citizen: The President’s Weekly; BP
I actually took some time today to see how stocks were performing. Last week, the President signed the Wall Street reform legislation into law. One thing that’s interesting about Wall Street, uncertainty and the unknown creeps them out more so than reform and regulation etc. Once they know what it is, put a dollar figure [...]
Eclectique Citizen: The President’s [What a] Weekly
Even with an impromptu firing of the four star “Runaway General” Stanley McChrystal; and an almost seamless replacement (and in management terms – demotion) of General David Petraeus from head of Central Operations Command to Afghanistan operations — oil spill still ravaging the Gulf, Congress hits a brick wall on extending unemployment benefits — the [...]
What Would Forrest Gump Do?
The Gulf Coast has been hit with the worst oil spill it has had in the region’s entire history — and event about to exceed the Exxon Valdez disaster in Alaska. When President Obama announced that he was opening up some coastal areas to off-shore drilling, my initial reaction was “Are you kidding?” I love [...]
“Bet Against the American Dream”
Lately, I’ve been asking people if there is any “movement music” after seeing the documentary “Soundtrack for a Revolution” about the music of the American civil rights movement. Well, let’s see if a movement evolves from Bank Reform. Movement in the musical sense that is. NPR’s “This American Life” commissioned a Broadway song from Robert [...]
The President’s Weekly: GM Gets It’s Engine Going…Again
The first car I ever purchased was a 1988 Chevrolet Nova hatchback. It was the “hybrid” of it’s day — a Chevy body with an engine manufactured by Toyota. I spoiled that car. Took it in for its oil changes on time; tune ups. It wasn’t long before every oil change became a diagnosis for [...]
News from Pottersville
“You’re worth more dead than alive….” Mr. Potter, “It’s a Wonderful Life” Nine months after Michael Jackson’s death, his estate has signed one of the biggest recording contracts in history, giving Sony, Mr. Jackson’s longtime label, the rights to sell his back catalog and draw on a large vault of unheard recordings. Ben Sisario, The [...]
