How to fight debt collectors
SmartMoney from the Wall Street Journal has some very helpful insight in its running series called “10 Things.” With the current financial mess our country is in it recently posted one I think will be...
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Americans to lose $34.3 million in lost vacation
A career fair in Independence, Ohio. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak) CNN is reporting that U.S. workers are set to lose 226 million vacation days this year, and according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, it...
View ArticleCEO: Don’t hate us because we’re rich
Jamie Dimon, CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co., is sad because of the current wave of resentment toward the Wall Street wealthy types. The Associated Press reports that Dimon said at an investors...
View ArticleBusiest week of the remaining year
Futures are trending down this Monday, but only slightly compared to the huge swings Wall Street has seen during the last 2 quarters. However, there is a score of economic data that will be coming the...
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Truth and Coincidence, Pa.
Mayor Linda Thompson. AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File The Mayor of Harrisburg, Pa., Linda Thompson, reportedly has straightened out her problems with her mortgage company and avoided foreclosure. The...
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GOP targets President Obama’s economic record
Screen grab The economy has become for President Obama what weapons of mass destruction is for President Bush; embarrassments that may haunt their presidencies for posterity. Not to let a good hit...
View ArticleGas is too expensive, but it’s worse in Europe
The price for a gallon of regular gas in San Antonio is currently $3.49 — 46 cents off the city’s all time high of $3.95, recorded in July 2008. But when you check out how much people in in Europe are...
View ArticleSecretary of Energy: Goal is not to lower gasoline prices — Updated with...
UPDATE: From Department of Energy Spokesman Damien LaVera. “This report is false. In the hearing yesterday, the Secretary repeatedly reiterated his concern about the impact that increased prices at the...
View ArticleBuy baby buy, consumer confidence is high
As consumers go, our confidence is fairly high. Some good economic news for the nation’s retailers as February’s consumer confidence report shows better than expected sales. Except of course for JC...
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Is global warming fudging economic data?
Again, be on the look out for Homo habilis-es running around spraying hairspray everywhere before they cause even more global warming. -Screen grab Global warming causes everything. No matter the...
View ArticleBailing out the speculators
What a crappy situation the Obama administration finds itself in with this one. Left with the decision to either let them fail – and thus force the eviction of renters across the country – or come to...
View ArticleStocks holding gains despite jobless claims
Challenger, Gray & Christmas is reporting that February job cuts fell 3.3 percent from January. And while this is still up 2 percent for year over year, any positive economic news is welcome. The...
View ArticleForeclosing on worship
With their reputations already trash, I think banks across America have finally decided, “What the heck,” and gone all in. Reuters is reporting that banks are now foreclosing on churches in record...
View ArticleU.S. adds 227,000 jobs in February
Never thought an 8.3 percent unemployment rate would be a good thing, but these days, it’s almost like Christmas to see that rate not go up month after month. MarketWatch reports that a half-million...
View ArticleAIG repays $1.5 billion, early
General Motors, Chrysler and American International Group have one thing in common, they all took tax payer funded government bailouts, and all took heat for taking the money. And that is pretty much...
View ArticleCase-Shiller dumps on party – stocks to open flat
The Case-Shiller home price index report is reporting tepid single-family home sales for January. Prices dropped by a more than expected 0.8 percent, killing any chance of continuing yesterday’s rally...
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Service sector expansion slows
Service sector and retail sales activity increased in Texas last month but at a slower pace than March, monthly surveys by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas showed. The Texas Service Sector Outlook...
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Texas manufacturing looking up
Texas’ factory activity improved in September, according to the newest manufacturing survey by the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. The Fed’s Manufacturing Outlook Survey is something of a numbers game,...
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Retail, service sectors grow in September
September was a good month for the state’s service sector generally and the retail sector in particular, the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas reports. The Fed conducts surveys on business activity in...
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Workforce development is a future focus for the San Antonio Economic...
Workforce development should be a focus of the San Antonio Economic Development Foundation, the San Antonio mayor and Bexar County judge said during the foundation’s gala dinner Wednesday night...
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