Obama, McCain, and Your Money

Here's an overview to help you understand where each candidate stands on major issues.

Yahoo Finance: Report

What is Commerical Paper and Why Should You Care?

In simple terms it's the fundamental method of loaning money to businesses on a short term basis. Essentially, the engine of our economy. See Wiki for more detail.

365: Another Frightening Show About the Economy
Alex Blumberg and NPR's Adam Davidson explain in simple terms how the system of Commercial Paper works and its effect on our economy.

Topics covered include:
- Credit Market Freeze
- Credit Default Swaps
- The Bailout Package

Listen to the NPR podcast now.

History of The Federal Reserve

A brief overview of how America moved off the gold standard and created a culture driven by debt. It's worth 10 minutes of your time to watch this video.

Who is Joe Plumber?

Apparently Joe doesn't have a plumber's license and the state has placed a lien on his property for not paying taxes. Read more in the article from Bloomberg News.

`Joe the Plumber,' Obama Tax-Plan Critic, Owes Taxes

News: Fires in Southern California

Fueled by the powerful Santa Ana winds that whip from the high-altitude deserts of the Great Basin toward the Pacific Ocean, 12 large wildfires raged in California on October 23, 2007. The fires clouded the air over the Pacific with dense plumes of smoke that stretched across hundreds of kilometers. The immensity of the event is illustrated in the top photo-like image, captured by the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite on October 23.

Ben Speaks Out!

Ben lays it out there in a candid 5 minute interview on music, life, and politics as usual.

ABC News Interview

Google named worst privacy offender in study

Google is taken to task for the usual issues: providing no way for users to expunge data, maintaining search logs that could contain personally-identifiable terms, tracking Google Toolbar users on the web, etc. But it's not just Google's policies that give Privacy International concern; the group worries especially about these policies being implemented by a company as large as Google.

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