Author: Bob Dreizler

The fiscal cliff really is something to worry about, but like most cliffs you don’t have to go over it. The U.S. doesn’t have to do a “Thelma and Louise.” …

If I was President Obama’s campaign chairman, I would run would ads showing a crawling line representing the movement of the Standard and Poor’s 500 stock index from when President …

The official unemployment rate has been hovering at about 8.2% during 2012, but it’s down from its recent peak 10.3% in October of 2009 (Source: National Conference of State Legislatures). …

Gasoline is a unique commodity. It is something most of us need to buy periodically. Its price is posted prominently wherever we drive. Our awareness and outrage about its price …

What is your tax bracket? What percentage of your income do you pay in taxes? Even those who know that a certain presidential candidate paid 13.9% of his income in …

So how is the economy doing? Your answer probably depends on whether you get your economic updates from official sources (Bureau of Labor Statistics and Congressional Budget Office) or Faux …

Press coverage of the Occupy movement has shifted its focus from the financial/political issues that created the movement to the commotion, arrests and individual acts of destruction that are its …

I haven’t been this hopeful since the day before President Obama was inaugurated. Twice last week I dropped by Caesar Chavez Park in Sacramento to see what’s happening with Occupy …

Last Friday the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index closed at 1136.  A year ago it closed at 1134.  In the mean time, this index of the 500 largest stocks rose …

$14,300,000,000,000.00 or fourteen-point-three trillion dollars. That’s a lot of money. If you stacked one-hundred dollar bills flat, one on top of each other, one million dollars would be four feet …