Welcome! Once a journalist, always a journalist. I left the news business to try something completely different (for a time), but realized I still felt the need to keep up with all that's going on around us. So, this blog emerged as a way for me to filter some of what I feel is important, interesting or funny and pass it along to you. Enjoy! And, feel free to comment on any post.
I left the house to take care of some business this afternoon and heard Lynn Samuels on Sirius talking about how the Dow was down over 200 points. I shook my head, because it was down about 125 just before I left. I got home about the time the market closed and was amazed to see it almost back to a break-even point! What happened? Let's just say mortgages and the Obama administration.
"Stocks staged a late rally to close mostly higher on Thursday after Reuters reported the Obama administration was working on a program to subsidize mortgage payments for troubled homeowners. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended higher while the Dow industrials retraced [...]
So, THIS Is What Happened
I left the house to take care of some business this afternoon and heard Lynn Samuels on Sirius talking about how the Dow was down over 200 points. I shook my head, because it was down about 125 just before I left. I got home about the time the market closed and was amazed to see it almost back to a break-even point! What happened? Let's just say mortgages and the Obama administration.
"Stocks staged a late rally to close mostly higher on Thursday after Reuters reported the Obama administration was working on a program to subsidize mortgage payments for troubled homeowners. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq ended higher while the Dow industrials retraced [...]
Once a journalist, always a journalist. I left the news business for something completely different (for a time), but just can't ignore what's going on in the world around me. This blog is one way for me to keep my finger on the pulse of everything and filter some good bits of information to you.
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