Archive for December, 2009

A couple of months ago we snapped the photos below of Boston sports radio station WBZ-FM 98.5 The Sports Hub‘s street team heading west on the Massachusetts Turnpike. The photographer tells me the driver in one of the vehicles laughed at the attention and also that there were hot chicks in them (she didn’t exactly [...]

In 2006 Massachusetts progressives carried a sub-prime mortgage lender to victory in the state’s gubernatorial election, essentially heralding the collapse of the mortgage bubble. One wonders what disaster their choice of candidate in the senate race will foretell?

The payroll and employment report from Bureau of Labor Statistics for November 2009 suggest that the US economy is entering a so-called V-shaped recovery, rather than a slower and more painful U- or W-shaped one. Not only were only 11,000 jobs lost last month, the figure for October was revised upwards. Initial unemployment claims are [...]