With the new insurance law and the requirement for all Americans to be insured, the need for inexpensive insurance is absolutely necessary. Discount health insurance plans are available if one takes the time to do a little research and search.
Some of the work has been done by the website, http://www.discounthealthinsuranceplans.net. The owners of [...]
Target Pop Up Stores Open!
Today is the grand opening of a new concept from Target and Liberty of London.
New Yorkers will get a sneak peek at Target’s latest collaboration Wednesday.
And considering Liberty of London has crossed the pond to be here, it should be quite an event.
Target will launch a pop-up store of flowery goods, and this one has [...]
Snow Causes Rise in Jobless Claims
Heavy snow caused layoffs increasing jobless claims to 468,000 as unemployment lines got just a little longer. Count that and add in that many state agencies were closed due to the extreme weather and you have the perfect storm as the backlog jam is in the process of getting caught up.
Instead of the Wall [...]
Obama Offers Housing Help!
An influx of money for the states of California, Arizona, Nevada, Florida and Michigan will be put into the housing agencies in order to help those states from the outrageous foreclosure issues they are having. President Obama is going to announce a 1.5 billion dollar plan at a press conference in Las Vegas today.
The [...]
Burger King cuts the Cheese
Burger King is cutting costs by eliminating one slice of cheese from it’s “BK Dollar Double” one dollar cheeseburger. Although it may make a minuscule impact on the consumer, the savings to the restaurant chain could be as much as 2 cents per burger or a total of 2% of the gross revenue from [...]
Stimulus Plan – One Year Later
Has the stimulus plan, which is one year old today, accomplished what it should have in this time frame?
You be the judge based on the following:
The Department of Transportation has approved over 10,000 state highway projects for a total of 34 billion dollars… only about 8 billion has been disbursed as of now. That seems [...]
Home Offices on the Way Out
Back in the day, the United States was booming with small business owners operating out of a home office when starting out. The concept, although not completely dead, is slowly morphing to the cafe and restaurant world. Many business owners are now meeting in places that have free wifi and fancy coffee as they market [...]
60 Day Money Back Guarantee!
In response to lingering car sales, Chrysler is now offering a 60 money back guarantee when you buy one of their 2101 Mini-vans. This is like taking a test drive for your lifestyle and a great selling tool as once you get used to the car, you are not going to be prone to [...]
Shuttle Endeavour Launch Scrubbed
Shuttle Endeavour Launch Time Scrubbed
Ok, this isn’t business news but it is worth taking up some space on this blog as we are proud Americans and the efforts by NASA is something to laud and applaud.
Shuttle Endeavour Launch Time Scrubbed, Space Shuttle Endeavour is one of three currently operational orbiters in the Space Shuttle fleet [...]
With Frank you Never Know…
…which way is up.
Barney Frank, the nutjob Democrat from MA, now wants to abolish Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae. This is the same guy that has been lauding and applauding the merits of these two psuedo-government entities. He is the same guy that was counting Fannie and Freddie as “fundamentally sound” in July of [...]