EconWatch.com: September 2009 Archives

EconWatch.com > September 30, 2009

Electric cars could hurt economy, environment | Great Lakes Echo

[Great Lakes Echo] (MI) The Detroit News - Government Motors dropped a public relations bomb a few months ago when new Chief Executive Fritz Henderson announced that the forthcoming Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid car would get an astonishing 230 miles per gallon (that’s 98 kilometers per liter, for our metric-system friends).

Amid Weak Economy, the Consumer Shows a Pulse | The Big Picture

[The Big Picture] Confidence reading shows a surprising spurt in September, but long-term outlook hinges on labor, reports Barrons.com’s Bob O’Brien.

Posted at 07:04 PM

September 30, 2009

Electric cars could hurt economy, environment | Great Lakes Echo

Posted at 07:09 PM

Amid Weak Economy, the Consumer Shows a Pulse | The Big Picture

[The Big Picture] Confidence reading shows a surprising spurt in September, but long-term outlook hinges on labor, reports Barrons.com’s Bob O’Brien.

Posted at 07:04 PM

September 29, 2009

Ireland: A "smart" economy in food better than pie-in-the-sky ...

[Finfacts Ireland Business & Finance Portal] The Irish Times reports that the Sandyford-based Institute of Management in Ireland (IMI) says it is preparing a report for the Government, summarising the proposals that emerged from the session on the so-called “smart economy” and Washington-based senior public affairs consultant Susan Davis is preparing a memo on the event.

Posted at 07:05 PM

Confidence in Czech economy slightly up | Prague Monitor

[Prague Monitor] The September business confidence indicator showed a partial month-on-month improvement, but it is more important that the Czech economy remains at a low level and no significant recovery is expect this year or early next year, Confederation of Industry analyst Oldrich Koerner said.

Posted at 07:03 PM

September 26, 2009

Reuters: 'Obama Scores Twin Coups on Iran, Economy' | NewsBusters.org

[NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Let's see, over a half a million people lost their job last month , and Obama is praised for making a speech about the global economy? Oh, and after that speech, The global economy hasn't changed at all, but he scored a coup? Yea, and Elvis is living in Africa, right next door to Jim Morrison.

Posted at 05:05 PM

Cash and carry economy | Vanguard

[Vanguard] The report coming out is that there is a dearth of credit in the economy. The fact remains that no economy will function optimally without the availability of credit as most businesses structure their operations based on the .

Posted at 05:04 PM

September 25, 2009

Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. » Economy impacting ...

[Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media.] “Community health providers like Planned Parenthood serve as a critical entry point into the health care system for tens of thousands of Minnesotans. For many women, the only doctor or nurse they see is the one they visit at a health center like Planned Parenthood,”

Posted at 02:35 PM

ACF blames kidnap cases on harsh economy | Vanguard

[Vanguard] ACF said and I quote “This is because such vices of hostage taking and kidnappings are disrupting to the ethos of the Northern part of the country. That is why any thought of their becoming part of Northern ways of life is troubling”

Posted at 02:34 PM

September 23, 2009

Guess Which Economy Doubled in Size Last Year | BNET Intercom | BNET

[BNET Intercom] The latest BNET articles, podcasts and videos; management insights behind today's business headlines;

Posted at 07:06 PM

The Economy and the 2010 Elections: Bleak Assumptions May Be ...

[Politics Daily] For the rule in both newspaper columns and on TV roundtables is: When in doubt, cite historical data as if you have stumbled on unalterable rules of human behavior. For as Abramowitz put it in an interview, "A year in advance, 14 months in advance of the congressional elections, you can't tell very much other than the party in power in the White House tends to lose seats."

Posted at 07:05 PM

September 22, 2009

BBC - Stephanomics: The environment and the economy

[BBC Blog Network] The blog of Stephanie Flanders, the BBC's economics editor.

Posted at 07:05 PM

Oracle CEO sees long slog for U.S. economy - Big Tech - Fortune ...

[Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0] In a wide-ranging and humor-filled chat with former Motorola (MOT) CEO and Sun Microsystems (JAVA) executive Ed Zander on Monday night, Ellison riffed about the state of innovation in the technology industry, Oracle's (ORCL) acquisition of Sun, his sailing hobby, and the cloud computing trend. The event was a rare opportunity to hear Ellison talk off the cuff - he tends to be guarded with the press, and lately has done few interviews.

Posted at 07:04 PM

September 19, 2009

Economy may have grown 1% in July: Scotia

[FP Top Stories List] "The Canada [bond] curve, related spread products, equities and the Canadian dollar are all likely not positioned for the kind of gain we think will be posted in July's GDP figures when they come out" in less than two weeks, Mr. Holt said in a note to clients Friday morning.

Posted at 05:05 PM

Epoch Times - Is the Economy Back From the Brink?

[Epoch Times | All headlines] Obama. The problem is that we are still in some Bernanke fantasyland, thinking that if we keep saying everything is ok, it will be.

Posted at 05:03 PM

September 18, 2009

Feud Has Repercussions for Saudi Economy - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com

[DealBook] This seaside city on the Gulf, 400 kilometers, or 250 miles, east of Riyadh, is now the center of a legal struggle that has resulted in some of the Algosaibis accusing Mr. Sanea, ranked 62nd on Forbes magazine’s list of richest people this year, of siphoning off $10 billion in assets while he was running a money-management business for them.

Posted at 02:34 PM

Podcast: Health Care and the Economy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

[The Caucus] Why doesn’t Obama address the real causes of problems in health care? For example, expanding numbers of medical professional and rural practices, expanding health care infrastructure in lower income areas, closing loop-holes that allow insurance companies to commit horrible excesses, and basically changing the way things are done in Washington to get major progress.

Posted at 02:33 PM

September 16, 2009

Obama Administration Unveils New Fuel Economy Rules - Political Punch

[Political Punch] Michelle Obama is a graduate of Princeton and Harvard Law, with previous jobs ranging from being an associate with the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin LLP to the assistant commissioner of planning and development in Chicago’s City Hall. Her income has been commiserate with that experience.

Posted at 07:06 PM

Roubini: US Economy Facing 'Death by a Thousand Cuts' | The Big ...

[The Big Picture] Repeating his prediction that the economy faces a threat of a “double-dip” recession and at best a slow-growth U-shaped recovery, Roubini said in a live interview that more banks will fail and residential real estate prices have more room to decline.

Posted at 07:04 PM

September 15, 2009

The Bonddad Blog: When will the Economy start to add Jobs? (II ...

[The Bonddad Blog] I have prepared a graph that confirms that indeed the level of 53 or above strongly correlates with the economy adding jobs Below that number the economy tends to shed jobs. In the graph, below, the low point for payrolls in each of the last 3 recessions (shown in red, green, and orange, respectively) is normed to 100.

Posted at 07:07 PM

When will Democrats 'own' the economy? - David Cantor - POLITICO.com

[POLITICO Top Stories] Even as Obama’s numbers have fallen in other areas, August polling shows that far from blaming Obama for economic conditions, Americans continue to trust him to fix the economy. A Marist poll shows 74 percent of Americans think Obama inherited the current economic conditions;

Posted at 07:05 PM

September 12, 2009

Driving Tips for Improving Fuel Economy - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com

[Wheels] Taylor and his wife, Helen, had completed a 48-state drive averaging 67.9 miles a gallon: 9,505 miles in 19 days, filling up only 13 times and spending a total of $371.03 for diesel fuel. That beat the Guinness record of 58.8 miles a gallon they set a year ago on nearly the same route in an almost identical 2009 Jetta TDI.

Posted at 05:05 PM

FedEx Equals The Economy, Stupid - Stocks To Watch Today - Barrons.com

[BARRONS.com: Stocks To Watch Today] The package-delivery giant long has been regarded as a proxy for the overall economy. Whether producers are manufacturing it, or consumers are buying it, somebody has to traffic it.

Posted at 05:04 PM

September 11, 2009

More people selling pot as economy goes up in smoke -- DailyFinance

[DailyFinance] All they have to do is toss out some seeds, perhaps dress it up with some buckets of water, potting soils, irrigation hoses etc. The cartels need spend only 50-500 dollars to neutralize thousands of taxpayer dollars spent on marijuana's prohibition.

Posted at 02:38 PM

Toronto's economy continues slide, but experts see signs of hope ...

[Posted Toronto] Carroll were unsure the recovery has truly come to Toronto - even as Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said yesterday it is happening ahead of schedule - the Canadian Federation of Independent Business believes the country has already turned a corner.

Posted at 02:35 PM

September 09, 2009

Fisker announces fuel economy estimate for Karma - 67.2 mpg and ...

[Autoblog] The company was created in 2007 to leverage the design capabilities of Fisker Coachbuild, LLC, founded by auto design veterans Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler, and the PHEV powertrain capabilities of Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ-QTWW), a major Tier 1 supplier of clean vehicle technologies to the automotive OEMs.

Posted at 07:04 PM

Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: Liberalizing The Economy

[Global Voices Online] Going Global stresses the need to liberalize the Sri Lankan economy and opines that minimum involvement in business by the government is better for everyone. Cancel this reply .

Posted at 07:04 PM

September 08, 2009

Switzerland Tops US As Most Competitive Economy - 24/7 Wall St.

[24/7 Wall St.] Switzerland has advantages in education and market sophistiation because of its market size. The US cannot be measured by the same standard because it has more than 300 million people.

Posted at 07:05 PM

Fisker announces fuel economy estimate of 67.2 mpg, CO2 emissions ...

[Autoblog Green] The company was created in 2007 to leverage the design capabilities of Fisker Coachbuild, LLC, founded by auto design veterans Henrik Fisker and Bernhard Koehler, and the PHEV powertrain capabilities of Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. (NASDAQ-QTWW), a major Tier 1 supplier of clean vehicle technologies to the automotive OEMs.

Posted at 07:04 PM

September 05, 2009

Ford C-Max Offers Glimpse of New Economy Engine - KickingTires

[KickingTires] The new Ford C-Max ”” think a tiny minivan like the Mazda5 ”” will be redesigned for global markets and debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in two weeks. Ford has released a few images (above and below) of the new design and a few tidbits about the car that could have import to car shoppers here in the U.S.

Posted at 05:07 PM

Brown to G-20: Economy is at 'critical juncture' | Home >> Other ...

[philstar.com - Breaking News] The G-20 includes 19 countries: Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Turkey, Britain and the United States. The European Union, represented by its rotating presidency and the European Central Bank, is the 20th member.

Posted at 05:05 PM

September 04, 2009

Why Nigeria's economy slides, by Anya | Vanguard

[Vanguard] Speaking on the topic: “Global Economic Trend: The alternatives for Nigeria”, Prof Anya bemoaned the rising unemployment rate in the country, saying that the nation’s economic planners had consistently fed the nation with half truths and outright falsehood to the detriment of the masses.

Posted at 02:35 PM

BoomTown Talks About the iPhone Apps Economy on The News Hour ...

[BoomTown] Last night, "The News Hour With Jim Lehrer" aired a piece on "how technology companies are innovating amid the recession by designing popular new smart phone applications." BoomTown was asked to reprise my recurring role as a naysayer .

Posted at 02:34 PM

September 02, 2009

Reports indicate jobs cuts lessening as economy brightens ...

[DailyFinance] But as employment usually trails overall economic activity, ADP also expects it is still likely to decline for at least several more months, though at a diminishing rate.

Posted at 07:09 PM

AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Australian ...

[AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth] US politics overall with a particular focus on the Obama Administration, the radical right, and civil rights.

Posted at 07:08 PM

EconWatch.com > September 30, 2009

Electric cars could hurt economy, environment | Great Lakes Echo

Amid Weak Economy, the Consumer Shows a Pulse | The Big Picture

September 30, 2009

Electric cars could hurt economy, environment | Great Lakes Echo

Amid Weak Economy, the Consumer Shows a Pulse | The Big Picture

September 29, 2009

Ireland: A "smart" economy in food better than pie-in-the-sky ...

Confidence in Czech economy slightly up | Prague Monitor

September 26, 2009

Reuters: 'Obama Scores Twin Coups on Iran, Economy' | NewsBusters.org

Cash and carry economy | Vanguard

September 25, 2009

Minnesota Independent: News. Politics. Media. » Economy impacting ...

ACF blames kidnap cases on harsh economy | Vanguard

September 23, 2009

Guess Which Economy Doubled in Size Last Year | BNET Intercom | BNET

The Economy and the 2010 Elections: Bleak Assumptions May Be ...

September 22, 2009

BBC - Stephanomics: The environment and the economy

Oracle CEO sees long slog for U.S. economy - Big Tech - Fortune ...

September 19, 2009

Economy may have grown 1% in July: Scotia

Epoch Times - Is the Economy Back From the Brink?

September 18, 2009

Feud Has Repercussions for Saudi Economy - DealBook Blog - NYTimes.com

Podcast: Health Care and the Economy - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

September 16, 2009

Obama Administration Unveils New Fuel Economy Rules - Political Punch

Roubini: US Economy Facing 'Death by a Thousand Cuts' | The Big ...

September 15, 2009

The Bonddad Blog: When will the Economy start to add Jobs? (II ...

When will Democrats 'own' the economy? - David Cantor - POLITICO.com

September 12, 2009

Driving Tips for Improving Fuel Economy - Wheels Blog - NYTimes.com

FedEx Equals The Economy, Stupid - Stocks To Watch Today - Barrons.com

September 11, 2009

More people selling pot as economy goes up in smoke -- DailyFinance

Toronto's economy continues slide, but experts see signs of hope ...

September 09, 2009

Fisker announces fuel economy estimate for Karma - 67.2 mpg and ...

Global Voices Online » Sri Lanka: Liberalizing The Economy

September 08, 2009

Switzerland Tops US As Most Competitive Economy - 24/7 Wall St.

Fisker announces fuel economy estimate of 67.2 mpg, CO2 emissions ...

September 05, 2009

Ford C-Max Offers Glimpse of New Economy Engine - KickingTires

Brown to G-20: Economy is at 'critical juncture' | Home >> Other ...

September 04, 2009

Why Nigeria's economy slides, by Anya | Vanguard

BoomTown Talks About the iPhone Apps Economy on The News Hour ...

September 02, 2009

Reports indicate jobs cuts lessening as economy brightens ...

AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth: Australian ...

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