26 July 2010

Business/Economic/Housing/Layoff News for July 27, 2010

Oil well just off course of Louisiana hit by barge this morning, 20 foot high oil spew still not capped, booms surrounding spill

US shopping center vacancy rates rose in 2nd qtr

Cap-And-Trade Advocates See Tougher Battle After Elections

Taleb: Government Deficits Could Be the Next 'Black Swan'

Unless women take control of Wall Street and America, 'The End' is near

The Illustrated Guide To Larry Summers' FinReg Hypocrisy And Hallucinations

The Government's Role in the Housing Bubble

Sickness, late pay, faulty equipment & lies . . . what it's like to be one of the non-inmates working for BP cleanup crews

With scores of coastal residents out of work after the spill, BP is hiring inmates to clean up its mess—and getting lucrative tax breaks in the process


Undersea oil plumes linked to BP Oil Volcano

As counties across the USA run defecits, more asphalt roads are returned to gravel


Derek Thompson of The Atlantic - "The Scariest Unemployment Graph I've Seen Yet"

James Howard Kunstler: "What Is It?"

London bankers buying up 1974 book on mechanics of Weimar Republic hyper-inflation

Head of Bush's TARP program for bankers, Neel Kashkari, wants to cut entitlements such as Social Security for the Middle Class

Cities looking at giving away land and cracking down on non-profits as a means to generate more revenue

Rochester schoolboard to give pink slips to 116 teachers

United Technologies to cut another 1500 jobs for remainder of 2010

Pennsylvania state government employee layoffs still coming

Must Read Of The Day - - - Roger Ebert: "BP's Tree Fell On My Lawn"

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