Cash For Clunkers

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• Schism on the Right! Gay-Hater vs. Mexican-Hater

  
  Orange Juice — Authority: 551
  For your Oscar consideration: 9-1/2 minutes of friction between a Minuteman and a Westboro Baptist, outside last year’s Saddleback Church Presidential debate.  Can the GOP hang together in spite of bitter divisions like these?  (Kidding, I know you’re not all this crazy!  But still, how will you deal with these ...
  9 hours ago

• Cash for appliance plan being finalized

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 679
  Anything that spends money and has us using less energy is okay with me. WASHINGTON, Nov. 27 (UPI) -- A "cash for appliances " program of giving U.S. consumers rebates for swapping old appliances for new, efficient ones should be finalized soon, officials say. Supported by $300 million from the economic ...
  22 hours ago

• Cash for clunkers program hurt charities

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 571
  Last year, the Chicago chapter of the American Lung Association received 650 donated cars from August through October. This year during the same three months the charity collected only 455 cars--a forty percent drop. CBS 2 Chicago has more: What was supposed to be a $3 billion shot in the arm to the economy is ...
  2 days ago

• Clunker Goals Get Clunker Results [GDP Update] – Open Thread

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 570
  (Bumped up from Saturday and with revised GDP update) Trashing a vehicle is pretty easy to do. Of course, if your goal was to to have fun and still be able to drive home at the end of the day, then breaking an axle can only be counted as a very costly mistake. The kind of mistake that makes you wish you could ...
  3 days ago

• SiteSeeing: EPA launches Green Homes Web site

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 430
  The federal government generally isnt typically known for its ability to make things simpler. Indeed, bureaucracy and streamlining seem oxymoronic terms. So while its new Green Homes site is far from perfect, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency deserves some kudos for making it easier for you to find ...
  4 days ago

• The Most Recent Recipient Of Obamas Middle Class-Funded Generosity: Key Largos Ocean Reef Club For The Mega Wealthy

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  A reader submits the following disclosure released by Ocean Reef Club, a country club, which very much unlike Americas 35 million food-stamp recipients, has roughly a $35 million net worth cutoff for members, who enjoy such amenities as 100 foot yachts , a private airport , and two golf courses . It is precisely in ...
  5 days ago

• SNL Takes A Swipe At Obama Over China Trip

  
  4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters — Authority: 428
  Go see the full transcript at  SNL Takes A Swipe At Obama Over China Trip [Video] . Very funny and pointed.  I didn’t think they still had it in them. INTERPRETER: Thank you, Mr. President. I would like to add that I completely understand why you feel entitled to come here and lecture China on our shortcomings. ...
  5 days ago

• The economy turns the corner? Consumer spending likely up slightly

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 654
  Filed under: Amazon.com (AMZN) , Economic data October seems to have been a good month for consumer spending. Unemployment is holding consumers back, but it isnt keeping wallets clamped shut. A Bloomberg survey reveals that purchases grew 0.5% last month, based on the thoughts of 61 economists. The U.S. ...
  5 days ago

• The WeeklyDIVA: Cash for caulkers

  
  DiscussionDIVAS — Authority: 115
  H ow aboutsome cash in return for weatherizing your home? Or a job? How about both? It’s thelatest idea circulating in Washington—governmentcash incentives to encourage you to plug up those drafty houses, insulate them,and switch to efficient light bulbs. If the title“cash for caulkers” rings like ...
  1 week ago

• As 09 Inventories Deplete, Who Will Blink First - Carmakers or Customers?

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 566
  After the sales plunge in the auto market began in earnest in the fall of 2008, automakers scrambled to reduce production schedules, sell off swollen inventories and otherwise deal with a drastically contracting U.S. market. Now, after months of production cutbacks orchestrated by many automakers and the summers ...
  1 week ago

• As ‘09 Inventories Deplete, Who Will Blink First – Carmakers or Customers?

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  After the sales plunge in the auto market began in earnest in the fall of 2008, automakers scrambled to reduce production schedules, sell off swollen inventories and otherwise deal with a drastically contracting U.S. market. Now, after months of production cutbacks orchestrated by many automakers and the summers ...
  1 week ago

• Fed Balance Sheet Hits Record $2.2 Trillion In Assets On $71 Billion Weekly Increase In MBS

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 761
  The Federal Reserves balance sheet hit a new all time record of $2.19 Trillion in assets , after an unprecedented spike of over $70 billion in MBS purchases pushed the number over the previous record from late April. Securities held outright: $1,774 billion (an increase of $96 billion MoM, resulting from $3 ...
  1 week ago

• Latest “Disastrous” Housing Data Shows Homebuilders are Hopeless

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 598
  October housing starts fell almost 11 percent. Mortgage applications have collapsed to a record 12-year low. Foreclosures are increasing the stock of homes to be sold at a pace of 300,000 per month.  Unemployment at 10.2 percent is not supporting home purchases, especially when rents are also decreasing. What’s ...
  1 week ago

• Burt’s Eye View: Fox and Foes

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 800
  Whenever I hear people outside the administration prattle on about how evil and biased Fox News is, I know I am listening to a flock of parrots who have never even tuned in. As a conservative myself, I have a number of problems with the network. For one thing, I resent Bill O’Reilly’s ridiculing those who merely ...
  1 week ago

• Learn more about the Amish heater and EdenPure space heater

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 430
  The calendar indicates that heating season is  upon us, but the Home & Garden blog team doesnt need to look at a thermometer or watch the Weather Channel to know its starting to get colder here in the New York City metro area and elsewhere around the country. Nope, all weve got to do is look at the traffic to ...
  1 week ago

• California outlaws large, power-hungry TVs

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 462
  In a move that could spell the end of the plasma TV industry as we know it, the state of California agreed today to enact strict regulations on the amount of power televisions can consume, effectively outlawing most large plasma TVs as of January 1, 2011, with many more televisions set to be banned beginning January ...
  1 week ago

• We’ve Been “Stimulated”…Or Should I Say “Clunkered”?

  
  Pawpaw Holler Home — Authority: 418
  We have been truly blessed over the last year in that Lacy has still been working steady –until now. On October 27th, he went to his job (which was supposed to continue through next spring) and was told he had 2 weeks to finish what they were doing and everything else was being put off until next year. The feller ...
  1 week ago

• The Street’s Already Abuzz About 2011 Hyundai Sonata

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 164
  Think of four words you might use to describe a Hyundai Sonata.
  1 week ago

• Clearing Up Tax Rules on Clunkers Cash

  
  KickingTires — Authority: 558
  Recently, rumors have sprouted on the Internet that consumers who took advantage of Cash for Clunkers will have to count the program’s rebate as income and pay taxes on it. For the record, this is not true. The Internal Revenue Service has said again and again that “the credit is not income for the consumer.” ...
  1 week ago

• The loads keep on spinning in the Consumer Reports washing-machine lab

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 430
  The folks who test and rate washing machines for Consumer Reports have been doing a ton of laundry. Make that almost two tons over the past five months, as they measure the cleaning performance, water and energy efficiency, and other criteria of the machines in our continuously updated ratings of front-loaders ...
  1 week ago

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