Positive, all the qe we take back. We werent in a recession and wont have needed any of it, which is weird. Huffington post never mind. Lead story on Huffington Post is what the i guess the dallas fed figured out what the great contraction, theyre calling it, what it cost us, Something Like 14, 15 trillion. Wow. Yeah. In lost wages and everything, take everything into account for the and naturally the Huffington Post points a finger squarely at quality for causing the whole thing. But anyway, lets check on the futures at this hour. Yesterday after all was said and done, the averages were the dow was unable to hold on to the positive gains that it started with, closed down a point. Up 36 points today. The s p indicated maybe up 4 1 2. S p is at a level that some people think could be important to make a stand if we want another leg to this rally. There you can see the nasdaq, which is probably a performing better, but doing pretty well since facebook and even though facebook is not a na
Economy. Is the debt ceiling negotiable . Your thoughts . Send us a tweet or post your comment on facebook. You can also send us an email. President obama held his last official News Conference of the first term yesterday in the east room of the white house. Heres what he had to say on the debt ceiling debate. [video clip] republicans and congress have two choices. They can act responsibly and pay americas bills or they can act irresponsibly and put america through another economic crisis. But they will not collect ransomed in exchange for not crashing the American Economy. The Financial Wellbeing of the American People wellbeing is not a leverage to be used. The full faith and credit of the United States is not a bargaining chip. They had better choose quickly, because time is running short. The last time republicans in Congress Even flirted with this idea, r. Triplea Credit Rating was downgraded for the first time in our mystery, our businesses created the few jobs in any month in ne
Buying the Washington Post newspaper for 250 million. This deal ends the graham familys 80 years of ownership. He calls this acquisition a personal endeavor. Not amazon money hes using, this is his very own. And chairman and ceo don graham talking about this deal. Jeff reached out to me less than a month ago. We met at a Conference Face to face, twice, the second week in july. We spent an hour together. He asked for time to study the numbers, we then spent another two hours together. And at the end of it, he said he thought he wanted to go ahead, but he obviously, he and his team needed time to look over the business and understand it more thoroughly. And then we he did and we quickly reached a deal. Shares of Washington Post climbing to the highest level in almost five years. 588 and change. Almost up 20 on this news. And this is something that were really focused on just because of the journalism and everything. We have to. But the graham family. The graham family, giving it up after
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