Attack Ads Lead up to Second Presidential Debate
While the presidential candidates gear up for the second debate Tuesday evening at Belmont University in Tennessee, arrows are flying from one candidate’s camp to the other in the form...
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The R-Word Looms
Today the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 159,000 jobs were loss. The last time the employment rate slipped by that much (in 2003) the country was climbing out of...
FDIC Seeks Insurance Increase
The Federal Deposit Corporation approached Congress this afternoon about increasing the federal deposit insurance limit in hopes that the move will reassure nervous savers and help small businesses. Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts, said in a memo to members of the House Financial Services Committee that "Sheila Blair, chairman of the FDIC, notified me that they will be requesting authority to increase deposit insurance limits. We will provide additional details as we have them,'' according to Bloomberg.
Surviving Tight Credit
With a $700 billion Wall Street bailout deal rejected in the House, one of the largest bank failures in the seizure of Washington Mutual, and an economic fate that is uncertain, African American entrepreneurs who were already feeling the squeeze are facing an even more stringent credit system.
On The Issues: Biden vs. Palin
Issues Sen. Joe Biden Gov. Sarah Palin Iraq For more information: Biden: Palin: Co-authored a five-point plan to end the war in Iraq, partly by establishing a limited central government...