July 10, 2008 From CNN Congressional Producer Ted Barrette WASHINGTON (CNN) ? Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid was non-committal Thursday when asked if he would like to retain Sen. Joe Lieberman as chairman of a key Senate committee next year if Democrats retain control. Liberal bloggers, who are angry with the former Democrat for supporting [...]
Archive for July 13th, 2008
13 Jul
Public Opinion Snapshot: Americans Deliver Resoundingly Negative Verdict on Bush Economic Policies
Center for American Progress Public Opinion Snapshot: Americans Deliver Resoundingly Negative Verdict on Bush Economic Policies By Ruy Teixeira | July 11, 2008 The Bush administration and its conservative defenders continue to argue, against all evidence and common sense, that President Bush’s economic policies have actually been good for the country. The public disagrees. In [...]
13 Jul
Two Takes: The U.S. Needs to End Its Energy Dependence
This dependence is economically unsustainable and dangerous for our children By Joseph Romm Posted July 10, 2008 Joseph Romm is a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he runs the blog ClimateProgress.org. America must become energy independent in the next four decades. And with the right political leadership, we will. Related News [...]
13 Jul
Two Takes: Energy Independence Is Neither Practical nor Attainable
A solution to our energy problems has to be practical, reality based and short term By J. Robinson West Posted July 10, 2008 J. Robinson West, chairman of the oil and gas consulting firm PFC Energy, is a former U.S. assistant secretary of the interior. The world economy is in the throes of an oil [...]
13 Jul
Many Retirees Face Prospect of Outliving Savings, Study Says
By Nancy Trejos Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, July 13, 2008; Page F01 Nearly three out of five middle-class retirees will probably run out of money if they maintain their pre-retirement lifestyles, a new study from Ernst & Young has concluded. The study, set to be released tomorrow, finds that Americans will have to drastically [...]
13 Jul
TEN INVESTING RULES TO THROW AWAY
By Brett Arends, The Wall Street Journal Last update: 10:15 a.m. EDT July 10, 2008 The market slump isn’t just shredding millions of college funds and retirement accounts. It’s also shredding the financial playbook that many American families had come to rely on to protect and grow their savings. Think of all the rules and [...]
13 Jul
Pushed Into the Gap
Your Weekly Medicare Consumer Advocacy Update People who hit the “doughnut hole,” the gap in coverage built in to the Medicare drug benefit, are painfully aware of the high prices Part D drug plans charge for brand-name drugs. What many people don’t know, however, is that a number of Part D plans, as well as [...]
