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Business

  The following Weblog items are filed under the Business category. There are 61 entries in this section. The earliest was published on August 27, 2009 and the latest entry was filed on February 12, 2010. If you have any comments about Business please let me know!

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February 12, 2010
Bill Clinton Quote

I remember this quote from Bill Clinton on Electon night in 1992:

President-elect BILL CLINTON (Little Rock, AR 11/3/92): "My fellow Americans, with high hopes and brave hearts, in massive numbers, the American people have voted to make a new beginning."

Change will be coming back to Washington in 2010, very different than it did in 2009. Massachusetts started it with Scott Brown, other states will follow....

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November 17, 2009
Factoid

Something to think about:

304,059,724 people in the USA, if you got a $19.99 from only 1% you would have $60,781,534

 Redbullet Filed under the "Business" category. The direct link to this blog entry is here.

October 29, 2009
Very Good News

Finally some good economic news:

The U.S. economy grew in the third quarter for the first time in a year, beating market expectations, as consumer spending and new home-building rebounded, signaling the end of the worst recession in 70 years.

 Redbullet Filed under the "Business" category. The direct link to this blog entry is here.

October 29, 2009
Google News Search

Google is a great tool and there's alot of fun things people can learn from doing simple searches. For example, have you ever wanted to know how many News Stories go out with some misspelling? You'll be surprise. Check out these two Google links for fun.

These are links to a Google News search for two common misspelled words and displays all the news stories in the past 24 hours with the misspelling.

  • Received - Remember its "i" before e except after c.
  • teh - Some people type in the word "the" too quickly. Microsoft Word has a functionality to fix this common mistake.

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August 27, 2009
Cash for Clunkers

CNN reported the following headline this morning:

If you were one of the nearly 700,000 people who were able to cash in on the Cash for Clunkers program, congratulations, you probably got a good deal. On the other hand, if you bought without a clunker in the last month you've overpaid.

Ok, so there were 700,000 people that got cash for there clunker, and there was $3 billion budget. Simple math shows that the average payout per car owner was $4,285.71. This suggests that a lot of consumers qualified for the higher payout. I am a little surprise by this since I thought that the formula was set up to the lower payout option.

There are currently 304,059,724 people living in the United States today. This means that roughly 4% of the population got the benefit of using cash for clunkers.



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