Posted by Bob on May 31st, 2010 | Categorized as News & Opinion
Here’s a summary of the total percentage profit improvement from the last two Clinton/Gore Presidential years (1999 and 2000) to the last two Bush/Cheney Presidential years (2007 and 2008) of the following groups of large corporations: 16 Largest, most profitable non-energy Dow Industrial companies……+66% 4 Huge Big Oil companies……………………………………………………….+289% 20 Other Big Oil companies……………………………………………………..+733% 13 [...]
Posted by Bob on May 19th, 2010 | Categorized as News & Opinion
Everyone’s very familiar with how BP, Transocean and Halliburton have all acted so irresponsibly in the recent disastrous oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. But I’m not sure that everyone is as familiar with many of the financial specifics of just what was going on with Big Oil during the Bush/Cheney years (2001-2008).
Posted by Bob on May 8th, 2010 | Categorized as News & Opinion
April job additions of 290,000 was indeed very good news. On the very positive side, 80,000 jobs were added in Professional and Business Services, with only 26,000 of these being in the Temporary Help Services. The Leisure and Hospitality sectors added 45,000 jobs. The Manufacturing jobs added were 44,000. Jobs added in health care were [...]
