Gas Prices Are In A Freefall-Will Other Prices Follow?

I’m pretty sure I don’t have to tell you that the price of gas is WAY down compared to a month or two ago.  Unless the soaring price of gas in the summer forced you to sell all your vehicles and ride a horse and buggy to work, you have surely seen and felt the [...]

A lesson on recession

One of the hobbies I have is playing the 5-string Banjo.  My favorite Banjo manufacturer is Deering Banjo Company.  They are hand made in Spring Vally California, are very fairly priced considering their quality and they have a very unique sound that I really enjoy and can recognize almost immediately.  Deering occasionally will send me [...]

Psst! Hey Chicken Little, the economic sky isn’t falling

I’m not one to rant and I’ll try real hard to avoid that in this article, but I just have to get this out of my system a bit. At work, I seem to be surrounded by economic Chicken Littles.  After hearing their stories of despair and financial hopelessness, I walked away and started writing…
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Government Bail out fails - That’s a good thing

Yesterday was most likely one of those days that will go down in economic history. US lawmakers rejected the proposed Government bail out yesterday. As a result, the Dow suffered the biggest single day point drop in history. The Dow Jones industrial average lost 777.68, surpassing the 684.81 loss on Sept. 17, [...]