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• Cash for clunkers program hurt charities

  
  Marathon Pundit — Authority: 563
  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 ...
  19 hours ago

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

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 549
  (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 ...
  1 day ago

• SiteSeeing: EPA launches Green Homes Web site

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 135
  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 ...
  2 days ago

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

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  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 ...
  3 days ago

• SNL Takes A Swipe At Obama Over China Trip

  
  4Simpsons Blog - Eternity Matters — Authority: 429
  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. ...
  3 days ago

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

  
  BloggingStocks — Authority: 659
  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. ...
  3 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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  Auto Observer — Authority: 614
  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 ...
  5 days 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 ...
  5 days ago

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

  
  zero hedge — Authority: 765
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Latest “Disastrous” Housing Data Shows Homebuilders are Hopeless

  
  The Daily Reckoning — Authority: 616
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Burt’s Eye View: Fox and Foes

  
  Big Hollywood — Authority: 804
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• Learn more about the Amish heater and EdenPure space heater

  
  Consumer Reports Home & Garden Blog — Authority: 135
  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 ...
  6 days ago

• California outlaws large, power-hungry TVs

  
  BLOGDIAL — Authority: 464
  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 ...
  6 days ago

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

  
  Pawpaw Holler Home — Authority: 416
  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 ...
  6 days 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: 534
  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: 135
  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

• Are We Having a Blowoff?

  
  NO QUARTER — Authority: 549
  “If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs…” Retail sales rebounded strongly this month posing a 1.4% gain. Good news, right? In an attempt to provide a degree of sanity to what has become an extremely volatile report, let’s break this report down a little bit further. Recall that our ...
  1 week ago

• Obama Admin looking to Cash for Caulkers?

  
  Get Energy Smart! NOW!!! — Authority: 565
  Alliterative titles often have power.“Cash for Clunkers” just rolled off the tongue and the program helped cars roll off dealers’ lots, providing a tangible economic boost while also (somewhat) providing a bump to automotive fuel efficiency.“Cash for Caulkers” might just be the next talk of the nation as ...
  1 week ago

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