November 6, 2008 – 5:05 pm
The HNIC (Head Ni**er In Charge) has received a pink slip today. If there are future leaders who will choose to work specifically for the advancement of Black people, they will have to be as sophisticated and accountable as the best that this country has to offer. Sing-talking bootleg preachers will no longer suffice.
Today [...]
Posted in African-American, Business, Economic Development, Economics, Economy, Hip-Hop Business, Inner-City, Minority-owned, Progressive, Urban, Urban Development, energy
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Tagged Al Sharpton, Barack Obama, Dr. Martin Luther King, energy economy, Quran
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October 25, 2008 – 8:04 am
Former Federal Reserve Bank Chairman, Alan Greenspan in his testimony before Congress this past Thursday said: “Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholder’s equity — myself especially — are in a state of shocked disbelief…” Age must be a truth serum, because here Greenspan exposes the [...]
Posted in Bonds, Business, Commodities, Dow Jones, Economics, Economy, Finance, Futures, Mutual Funds, NASDAQ, Options, S&P 500, Stocks, Wall Street
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Tagged AIG, Alan Greenspan, capitalism, car insurance, Congress, Federal Reserve Bank, GEICO, insurance, Joseph A. Cassano, laissez-faire, laissez-faire capitalism, the market
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October 20, 2008 – 3:00 pm
We’ve all seen the price of a barrel of oil plummet over the last few weeks to half of what is was in the summer, now $70-$75. While gas prices at the pump have gone down by a lot too, roughly 29% since July, that’s still not half (-50%) to match the decline in a [...]
Posted in Business, Commodities, Dow Jones, Economic Development, Economy, Finance, Futures, Inner-City, Mutual Funds, NASDAQ, Politics, Rural, S&P 500, Stocks, Wall Street, energy
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Tagged Barack Obama, Cynthia McKinney, economic plan, food, gas, groceries, inflation, John McCain, oil, presidential debate, sustainability, taxes, wages
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October 11, 2008 – 6:01 pm
On October 8th, 2008 the New York Times and CNN.com reported that, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart of Cook County Illinois has decided to “stop evicting people from their homes.” The sheriff has pointed to the fact that many occupants who are being evicted are renters who have been paying their rent on time to landlords, [...]
Posted in Business, Economics, Economy, Inner-City, Progressive, Urban
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Tagged capitalism, Cook County, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., eviction, eviction notice, foreclosures, Illinois, Illinois Bankers Association, landlords, Mahatma Gandhi, New York Times, poor, Sheriff Thomas J. Dart, tenants, Wealth of Nations
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