By Gilbert Mercier, News Junkie Post Editor. Despite the Revolutionary Guards threats to crush further protests thousands of people gathered in Tehran. Our internet sources (via Twitter) from Iran describe a “tense situation and road blocks everywhere.” More foreign journalists were asked to leave today. The reporting and flow of images will continue regardless, thanks [...]
The FDIC shuffled three more banks off to oblivion on Friday. All three had been under cease-and-desist orders from federal banking regulators, but the agreements had failed to save them. With six months left in 2009, the demise of the three bring the total number of bank failures for the year to 40. The total [...]
Six months ago, we highlighted a Washington Post story examining firms that charge struggling homeowners for help modifying their mortgages. Counselors and advocates say a borrower facing foreclosure should never have to pay for help, but those running the firms (which tend to be small) told the Post that they were providing a valuable service [...]
The Washington Post‘s “Recovery’s Missing Ingredient: New Jobs” is today’s must-read. “With many forecasters projecting unemployment to remain above 10 percent next year and not return to pre-recession levels of roughly 5 percent for years after that,” writes reporter Michael A. Fletcher, “Obama is likely to be confronted with defending the effectiveness of his economic [...]
She has supported appointing right-wing judges to federal courts. She supported a bill to strengthen the government’s wiretapping powers (FISA). She has opposed the Employee Free Choice Act. And now, she has expressed her pessimism towards President Obama’s healthcare plan. How much more duplicity shall we expect from Dianne Feinstein in years to come? As [...]
