Stimulus Package Needs to Stimulate Public Perception.
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President Obama Lectures Wall Street. My Lecture on Symbolic Expression.
President Obama’s statements at a press conference yesterday lecturing Wall Street does not help the economic crisis. By chastising bank executives for their billions of dollars in bonuses they paid themselves only months after the federal bailout, however, Obama points out to America how out of touch Wall Street is with the rest of the [...]
Economy Tanking: Ominous Signs Spell Need For Hope.
The Economy is Tanking.
The economy is tanking. The signs are clear that our financial system, our manufacturing, our gross domestic product, and our consumer spending is on life support. Each time it seems that things cannot get worse, things get worse. Wall Street journalists have been using the phrase, “It’s always darkest before the dawn” [...]
English Professor’s How To in the Stock Market: For Those of Us Wall Street Outsiders.
How to invest and trade in the stock market. This is the opening line to countless articles by how-to gurus in the financial world. Particularly since the collapse of housing, banks and the major Wall Street brokerages, the gurus are out telling everyone that they have the secret to locking in gains in a down [...]
How to Fix the Economy: Obama Gets to Work.
Before this past fall, 2008, the Iraq War concerned most Americans. As September stumbled into October, the stock market crashed, the flow of credit froze, and money began to evaporate in banks and the auto industry, suddenly the economy concerned Americans the most. As the adage goes, people vote their pocketbook.
I think that Obama is [...]
BIG BLACK HOLE FULL OF CRAP IN MY FRONT YARD
A CRAPPY DAY.
This morning I woke up, excited and optimistic about tomorrow’s Inauguration of Barack Obama, inspired by Martin Luther King events on the television, ready to begin the Spring semester tomorrow morning with renewed academic vigor, and my waste disposal service backed their garbage truck up my driveway, slid in the snow and landed [...]
Presidential Facts:The Benefits of the White House.
The upcoming inauguration of Barack Obama has inspired my ten year old son to ask me specific questions about the President of the United States’ job. They are the kind of questions about the White House that occur to a ten year old–who can’t remember the tragedy of the 2000 and 2004 elections–and which [...]
Miracle on the Hudson River. Airline Incidents as American Symbols.
The Miracle on the Hudson is a symbol of hope at the end of eight years of hopelessness. The Bush administration began with the horrendous tragedy of 9/11, when terrorists flew two jet airliners into each tower of the World Trade Center, killing thousands of innocent people. It ended when pilot Chelsey Sullenberger landed [...]
I’m As Mad As Hell, And I’m Not Going To Take This Anymore!
In the 1976 movie Network, Howard Beale (Peter Finch), a seasoned anchorman on a failing network news program, UBS, learns he will be let go in two weeks, so he goes on the air to announce his plan to commit suicide. Fittingly, the network’s ratings soar, and UBS keeps him on the air, profiting from [...]
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