- AP: It seems like every day the markets hit a new low. Now they’ve hit territory unseen since 1997. Yes, the last time the Dow was this low I was a freshman in high school. We were in that brief perion between the time that Bill Clinton was re-elected and the time that he was impeached. Those were the days. We’ve heard a lot about numbers where investors will pull their money out, but eventually the market will recover (even if it’s ten years), when do you start to think about buying?
- Tribune: Rick Santelli has started a groundswell since his rant on CNBC last week. The White House even tried to blow him off as just another rich guy against the stimulus. The problem is that the White House doesn’t like him, and his contract is just about to expire. That’s not a good combination. Ironically enough his contract will expire this summer at just about the same time as his planned Chicago Tea Party on July 4th.
- FoxNews: President Obama held a fiscal responsibility summit to tackle the massive, crippling debt facing the United States. As I said on Twitter today, isn’t Barack Obama having a “fiscal responsibility” summit a lot like the Cubs holding lecture series on how to win the World Series? If they want to learn about fiscal responsibility, they should listen to what Bobby Jindal had to say on the subject.
- Sun-Sentinel: Here’s a good roundup of what to do if you find yourself laid off and facing the black pit of dispair that is the job market. One thing that would probably be on the “don’t do” list is the new phenomenon of the “goodbye email.” There’s no good that can come from that, either you’re a disgruntled employee that’s going to to launch into gripe-fest 2009, or you’re a perfectly happy employee who is just moving on and you risk saying something that could damage the good relationship you had with your now former employer.
