This post was published on the Booman Tribune. Which shall it be first? Oh, heck let’s go with the bad news, because that will make the good news all the more impressive: WASHINGTON — Unemployment rose in 30 states in January, the Labor Department said Wednesday, evidence that jobs remain scarce in most regions of [...]

 
The United.States dropped a record $220.9 billion further into the red in February, the Treasury Department reported Wednesday.

Record monthly deficit for U.S.: $221 billion Wed, 10 Mar 2010 19:38:35 GMT
 
I wasn’t going to write, but then I saw this story.  Because I was thinking a little bit about the economic conditions.  [...]

There can no longer be any doubt that with the change of administrations in Washington has come a radical transformation of how serious the Food and Drug Administration now is when it comes to regulating the food industry. Under President Bush, the agency was essentially toothless. Food companies, realizing this, ran wild, promoting their products [...]

Filed under: Rumors, Microsoft (MSFT), Time Warner (TWX), Viacom (VIA), Sony Corp ADR (SNE), Electronic Arts (ERTS), Technology, Nintendo (NTDOY)
Well, it’s been an exciting month for the video-game industry. Viacom (NYSE: VIA) and Electronic Arts (NASDAQ: ERTS) released The Beatles: Rock Band to the market. Nintendo (OTC: NTDOY) cut the price of the Wii in [...]

Filed under: Earnings reports, Ford Motor (F), International Business Machines (IBM), Citigroup Inc. (C), Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Comfort Zone Investing
We’re wrapping up the third quarter soon. Earnings will be out in October for most companies, certainly the largest names. They should look very good … when compared to the third quarter [...]

The White House has received a draft of a bill from Congress that would aim to keep Detroit’s Big Three carmakers rolling at least into early next year.
The draft bill would call on President Bush to select one or more people within the executive branch to authorize, disperse and oversee a loan for the auto [...]

UNDATED (NBC) – The economic roller coaster made a climb into plus territory Tuesday.
The markets responding positively to news of help for struggling Citibank, and President-Elect Barack Obama’s choices for his finance team.
The president-elect made his first cabinet announcements vowing to tackle the growing economic crisis and hoping to get his team in place early [...]

For all the talk of San Francisco values, a Chronicle analysis of how the city voted on the state’s same-sex marriage ban shows a city geographically divided on the issue –

World leaders have been welcomed to Washington by President George W Bush for a summit to discuss measures to contain the current financial turmoil.
They hope to agree on long-term reforms to reduce the risk of further crises.
But few expect a major breakthrough without President-elect Barack Obama, whose long-term role will be [...]