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Cleaning up messes has grown into a big business since the 1970s. There are a lot of small and medium-sized businesses that get involved in environmental remediation for everything from cleaning up...
There’s nothing like impending doom to focus the mind. And we may be seeing some of that as the efforts to clean-up the spewing oil from the explosion at the Macondo well owned and operated by BP...
The deficit watch is only getting broader… Uncle Sam, via bailouts and other entitlements to keep the economy afloat, spent more than it brought in with a total federal budget deficit of $82.69...
If you were witness to the perfect storm that hit the U.S. financial markets yesterday, there are many places where you can point a finger.  But the issue that is still the most troubling is Greece...
As you expected, no rate hike came from the two-day FOMC meeting today at 2:15 PM EST. The target Fed Funds Rate was kept at the same 0.00% to 0.25% that has been the case for over a year.  As far...
If you have watched the tone, reaction, expressions, and pointed questions today from the Senate Hearing on Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (NYSE: GS), how you interpret the whole stance of the issues under...
Imagine the government and taxpayers finally being out of AIG… Who doesn’t love to hate AIG?  The financial crisis and the bailouts might have been much different had American International...
Google Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOG) has been on its way out of China for some time.  The search engine leader has said it was reconsidering its China stance, but the damage has been done and the effort to...
The FOMC decision on interest rates is expected today at or around 2:15 PM EST.  Most market pundits are expecting no change to the Fed Funds Rate.  The target of 0.00% to 0.25% is still being...
American International Group, Inc. (NYSE: AIG) is seeing a significant trading event today.  Today’s news is rumor-driven on top of related news-driven trading.  What is odd is that there is now...
The National Association for Business Economics, or the NABE, has continued on its call for a muted recovery.  But there are some key issues it has brought up.  The NABE sees a rate hike sooner...
The Congressional Budget Office said the national debt will be rise by $9.8 trillion by 2020. The figure is $1.2 trillion higher than White House estimates, which may put a new sword into the hands...
Bank of America Corp. (NYSE:BAC) holders decided that swallowing more dilution was preferable to having Uncle Sam as a business partner.  After all, it is easier to have a little less than to have...
The President has appointed an 18-member blue ribbon panel to analyze how the US budget deficit can be reduced. The panel is then to make recommendations meant to bring the deficit down to 3% of GDP....
You saw the bank bailout in the U.S. in 2008 to 2009, now it seems that the great bailout is heading the way of Greece if the reports and if the rumors are accurate.  As this is the E.U. and a Euro...