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Cash For Appliances Government Stimulus Rebate Program Will Give Money For Old Refrigerators, Washers And More

September 23, 2009
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The past couple of months we’ve talked quite a bit about the Cash For Clunkers program, how it worked, and who could expect to receive a voucher towards the purchase of a new car. People were split down the middle as to whether the voucher program was even a good idea, with some saying [...]

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Cash For Clunkers Program Is Dead Again. Gas Guzzler Trade-In Program Ends Monday.

August 21, 2009
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We’ve been talking a lot recently about the Cash For Clunkers program, and how the program has been successful by some standards, and troubled in other ways.  The program ran out of money one week after it launched, and was only re-launched after congress passed another 2 billion dollars for the program.
Now the program is [...]

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Cash For Clunkers Gets A $2 Billion Cash Infusion And Rises From The Dead.. For Now

August 7, 2009
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More Cash – For Cash For Clunkers
It was only a week ago that we were talking about how the Cash For Clunkers program had only been active for a week, and it was already running out of money.  $1 billion dollars had been assigned to the program and after demand for the vouchers was much [...]

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Cash For Clunkers Program Suspended After Only A Few Days. Here Is Why

July 31, 2009
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The Cash For Clunkers program has only been active since last Friday, but word is now leaking out that the CARS program will be halted at midnight on Thursday July 30th, less than a week after it launched.  The problem?  There are fears that the program may have already run out of money.  The program [...]

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Congressional Budget Office Says 2009 Stimulus Package Could Be Harmful To Economy

February 6, 2009

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The Congressional Budget Office released a statement this week stating that they believed the current versions of the 2009 stimulus package would actually be harmful to our nation’s economy in the long run.
President Obama’s economic recovery package will actually hurt the economy more in the long run than if he were to [...]

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Stimulus Package Was Needed But It Won’t End the Crunch

January 13, 2009

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Today Ben Bernanke talked about the stimulus package currently being discussed by President-elect Obama and his incoming administration.  He believes it will help, but that it won’t be enough to bring a lasting recovery.  From the International Herald Tribune:
The chairman of the Federal Reserve, Ben Bernanke, said Tuesday that the fiscal [...]

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Obama 2009 Stimulus Plan Could Exceed $775 Billion Dollars

December 30, 2008

As the new year gets closer the President-elect and his team are making plans for the new year, and his first term in office.
One of the first things on the table, a stimulus package that could reach or exceed $775 billion dollars.
Regarding the new administration’s stimulus plan, Mr. Axelrod also said that the exact dollar [...]

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Greed. It Never Ends Well.

December 15, 2008

If you’ve been watching the news lately you’ve probably seen the rash of bad news that we’ve had surrounding large companies and CEOs keeping cooked books, running Ponzi schemes and just defrauding people in all sorts of ways.  It hasn’t been one isolated incident, but multiple incidents.  The one thing they all have in common?  [...]

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November Site Numbers And Recap

December 2, 2008

November 2008 was a banner month!

November 2008 was by far the best month that this site has ever had. We had our most visits and page views ever, as well as going over 300,000 page views for the life of the site. Who could have imagined that we would see this much traffic on [...]

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