Latest headlines

Here are the headlines I missed (thankfully) while I was on vacation last week..

• Unemployment claims are up. 

• The so-called "recovery" is fizzling

• US debt at a record percentage of GDP .. and growing

• Private business aren't hiring ... and don't plan to

• Government employment growing across the board

• Iran thumbing its nose at further sanctions .. continue work on the bomb

• Dependency on government growing at highest rate since Jimmy Carter

• The United Nations is calling for the dollar to be replaced as the global reserve currency

• Oil leak in Gulf continues with no real end in sight

• Taliban cooling their heels and waiting for our July 2011 pull out date

• Tax increases across the board in the US

• The Value Added Tax is on the way!

• Home sales are down by 30%

• Six months to go before we are hit with the largest tax hike in history

• Hugo Chavez just seized 11 oil rigs owned by a US company

• Mexican drug gang fight at Arizona border kills 21

So ... how's that Hopey-Changy thing working out for you?