Go Google, go

That scion of the Internet has announced that it is making another investment outside of its core business.  I am of course talking about Google.  The Google investment in focus today is in an offshore windfarm in the mid-Atlantic region of the U.S.  The project will...

S.O.L. jobs situation

Thursday the U.S. Department of Labor announced that the U.S. economy shed 95,000 jobs total (!).  The huge majority of those jobs were census workers and other government employees at both the national, state and local levels.  The private sector added 64,000 jobs in...

Shrinking growth

Last week the International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecasts for both 2010 and 2011.  That staid organization now expects growth will be 4.8% in 2010 and 4.2% in 2011.  That familiar culprit, the European sovereign debt crisis, is primarily to blame for...

Massive Dow uplift

Good morning from cloudy Miami! You can’t help but have noticed the massive uplift in the value of the Dow Jones Industrial Averages yesterday. In case you missed the surge, the DJIA was up 193.45, or 1.8%! The first question that naturally pops into my mind is:...