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Given the last 8 years, it's the democrats' election to lose.

I hesitate to say that the whole Palin thing makes that statement moot. Nice spike in the polls after choosing her, but as soon as she ...

Mr. Paulson has recruited several former colleagues from Goldman Sachs to advise him, though administration officials took pains to say that they were not dominating the process, pointing to other T ...

...probably more of a corpocracy.

Isn't Bush a libertarian, free markteering, swashbuckling, ding, dang, doggone, watchamacallit texian texan?

You may not understand what I'm about to say, but he was a great Texas governor. He i ...

Agreed - OPEC has shown that they enjoy the $100 oil, and it will take a significant amount of demand destruction before they allow that figure to fall.

In the meantime, "cheap gas" before the elec ...

I'm still trying to figure out how some of the banks who target subprime lending are still standing. Capital One is the largest one that comes to mind here...

Stealing from other parts of the orga ...

I've heard from multiple sources (some inside Citi, no less) that they're having some difficult times. Wells Fargo, on the other hand, I've heard has some of its own off-balance sheet worries.

I'm ...

Hey, you can call me stupid if you want to. What I'm saying is, likely in the near future people will continue to try to make a living. If their living is to hound you for unpaid debts, they will pr ...

Not related to Peak Oil at all.

Undulating plateau... Demand exceeding supply... Market volatility...

My understanding is that the people in the SE and East Coast are on a pipeline from the Houston/Beaumont area for their primary supply - until it reopens at full capacity, those on the ends of the lin ...

As someone who just got power back 12 hours ago in Houston:
1] It appears the medium-distance suburbs are the first to get power back.

2] Nearly all of Houston should have full water pressure agai ...

Lights still on in West Houston (surprisingly). The wind is beginning to stay loud - public briefing on local tv about basic post-storm stuff (water safety, power lines, etc..). Only 1 million expe ...

West side, 8 and I-10 essentially. Far outside the flooding area, but still going to get a bit of wind and rain for awhile.

Ike is 80 miles offshore, 200k+ without power already.

Power is starting to flicker across Houston, so there probably won't be many updates from here before too long. Alicia took 3-5 days for most of Houston to be back up, we'll see what happens this tim ...

As far as Houston goes (west side here), 90% of my neighbors are home. There's almost noone on the roads, most businesses are closed, and there's basically no gas to be found.

Next couple days sho ...