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Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on December 29th, 2011 5:35 am by HL
2011, the year of the aftershocks
Technically, the financial crisis began in late 2008 with the collapse of Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers, but 2009 was the year we really felt it. It was in 2009 that we lost more than 5 million jobs — the majority of the total job losses caused by the recession.
By 2010 we seemed to turn the corner. The economy added more than a million jobs. Growth returned. The financial markets stabilized. Many forecasters looked to 2011 with real optimism.
Ron Paul and Ronald Reagan (Fact Checker biography)
“America must decide who to trust: Al Gore’s Texas cheerleader, or the one who stood with Reagan.”
— An ad from the Ron Paul Presidential Campaign Committee
Read full article >>Romney draws crowds in Iowa, tries to manage expectations
CLINTON, Iowa – Something funny happened to Mitt Romney here on Wednesday: he drew a huge crowd.
So huge that when he showed up to deliver a stump speech at Homer’s Deli & Bakery, he went first to Rastrelli’s, the Italian restaurant across the street, to address a couple of hundred supporters who showed up and couldn’t fit inside the doors at the bakery.
GOP candidates’ ad spending down, but anti-Obama groups take to airwaves early
The presidential primaries are only now just about to start, but conservatives investing money in politics have already bet their capital on the biggest return: defeating President Obama in the general election.
The shifting Republican nomination fight has been cheaper than a post-holiday sale compared with the 2008 race, but groups mobilizing against Obama are starting earlier than similar groups have in the past.
