As Barack Obama nears the halfway point of his second term, things appear finally to be looking up for the president after a difficult year. For the first time since September 2013, Gallup’s daily polling on Mr. Obama’s job approval rating shows it above water: 48% of Americans approve of […] Read more »
Many Feel the American Dream Is Out of Reach
Despite an improving economy and jobs picture, the public is more pessimistic than it was after the 2008 financial crisis that it is possible to work hard and become rich, according to a New York Times poll. … Notwithstanding the bleaker view of upward mobility, a majority of those polled […] Read more »
U.S. Investors Seem Unaware of Bull Market’s Strong Gains
Amid a strong bull market that drove the S&P 500 up 30% in 2013 and has continued to produce gains, fewer than half of U.S. investors — 41% — say that if given an additional $10,000 to save or invest, they would put it in the stock market. Just over […] Read more »
Eric Cantor’s primary loss and Wall Street reform
Pundits have blamed Eric Cantor’s shocking upset in the Virginia 7th District Republican primary on many things, from immigration, to the broader alienation of “establishment” Republicans from their activist, Tea Party base, to Cantor’s poor performance minding his own district. But challenger David Brat put the coddling of big banks […] Read more »
The Biology of Risk
… Risk is more than an intellectual puzzle — it is a profoundly physical experience, and it involves your body. Risk by its very nature threatens to hurt you, so when confronted by it your body and brain, under the influence of the stress response, unite as a single functioning […] Read more »
Fox News Poll: Voters feel better about the economy, say stock market rigged
The National Bureau of Economic Research officially declared the recession over in June 2009, yet most people still think the nation’s economy is hurting. The silver lining for President Obama is fewer feel that way today than at any time since he took office. CONT. Dana Blanton, Fox News Read more »