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What's going on – News RoundUp
ecthompsonmd November 12, 2008

Wednesday Evening News Roundup The stock market continues to tank. Over the last three days the Dow Jones industrial average has fallen over 600 points. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson announced today that the $700 billion bailout will no longer buy up these bad assets but instead would inject money directly into financial institutions, which should quickly restore confidence and ease credit conditions. I hope that no one believes that this announcement will turn things around quickly. We are in a for prolonged volatile time. I have talked about the auto industry’s standing in line with its hand out. Please don’t think

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What's Going On
ecthompsonmd September 12, 2008

No news round-up tonight as I watch Hurricane Ike batter my former home-state. I’ll have one tomorrow.

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Is going negative passe?
ecthompsonmd February 22, 2008

Passe you say? Last night Senator Hillary Clinton has a line that she no doubt rehearsed with her staff. It was a zinger. Barack Obama was offering “change you can Xerox.” She got boo’ed. Why? In years past, that would have worked. Obama would have been labeled the Xerox king. There would have been t-shirts. Not this year. ———– From McClatchy: “It looks like people are just burned out on that stuff,” said Peter W. Schramm, the executive director of the Ashbrook Center for Public Affairs in Ohio. In state after state, voters said they moved from Clinton to Obama —

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