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Credit Woes, Housing Data Drag on Stocks

Newsvine - business  Thu, 03/06/2008 - 08:02

Stocks tumbled Thursday as renewed concerns about the credit markets and another dose of disappointing housing numbers intensified the market's worries about the sagging economy.

The Dow Jones industrials fell more than 100 points while the broader Standard & Poor's 500 index gave up more than 1 percent.


 

Learning How to Spell "Inflationary Depression"

Newsvine - business  Thu, 02/21/2008 - 15:56

As usual, I take a long pull from a bottle of cheap tequila, use it to swallow a handful of various calming medications, and manage to take a long, soothing drag on a cigarette before my wife yells at me, "What in the hell are you doing out there behind the garage?

Put down that  …