Bob McCarty Writes

News that the Central Gulf of Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale 213, held today in New Orleans, attracted nearly $1 billion in high bids, according to the Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service, had leaders in the nation’s oil and natural gas industry excited and calling upon the federal government to replicate the [...]

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Just over a year ago, he predicted the “Crash of ‘09″ would be the worst ever.  Eight months later, he predicted that the commercial real estate market would be the next big “Shoe to Drop”.  In a post today, trendwatcher Gerald Celente writes, “Watch Greece and Europe’s economic troubles foretell our own future in America.”  Accompanying [...]

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In testimony delivered in Houston today, officials with the American Petroleum Institute said the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed new ozone pollution standards would exact significant costs on consumers, jobs and the economy without delivering commensurate benefits.  Furthermore, they said there was no solid scientific justification for imposing the more stringent standards.

“Without a clear certain [...]

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Americans’ confidence in their health insurance coverage and ability to access health care increased slightly last month, according to the latest findings of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index).
Why did confidence rise — albeit ever so slightly?  I suspect it’s due to the fact that Americans saw Democrats slowly [...]

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As President Barack Obama begins his second year in office, the public’s priorities for the president and Congress remain much as they were one year ago, according to the folks at the Pew Research Center.  Global warming, however, rates at the bottom of 21 items receiving votes.
In Public’s Priorities for 2010: Economy, Jobs, Terrorism, new [...]

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