Articles By: Atlas

Obama proposes new bank tax

    After agreements were made in Congress for the new financial reform bill, Obama is now proposing a new bank tax. This will affect finanical companies with more than $50 billion and hedge funds with more than $10 billion. In his weekly address Obama said that this was to make sure than taxpayers...
June 26th, 2010 | Investing, Obama | Read More

New Financial Overhaul Bill is going through Congress

The new financial reform bill is the second time barack has pulled this trick. He makes a bill 2,000 pages long, no one reads it, no one knows whats in it, and demands a vote. Once independent Americans take a look and see whats in the bill they are horrified and flood Congress with calls not to vote...
June 25th, 2010 | Congress, Investing | Read More

Abolishing the Fed

  There are a lot of people that talk about abolishing the Federal Reserve System, especially on the right. It appears to be a fanciful idea, mainly because the Fed is a very well established part of our economy. It is also one of the more misunderstood parts of our government because of its shadowy...
June 24th, 2010 | Economy, Federal Reserve, Investing | Read More

Obama names Gen. Petraeus after dismissing McCrystal

It seems that criticizing Obama is a firing offense in the military. Despite numerous apologies, McCrystal was replaced by David Petreaus to lead the Afgan war. Obama had nothing but glowing words for Petreaus, which is very interesting considering the dressing down he gave him while he was still a...
June 24th, 2010 | National Security | Read More

US Resource Agencies shut down Sand Berm building in the Gulf

  Brearucratic ignorance has come to define Obama’s handling of the Gulf oil spill. He seems to be so ineffectual as a leader that he cannot get anything accomplished. Let BP cap the well, they alone know how to do that. The government’s job is to cleap up and prevent damage if possible. That...
June 23rd, 2010 | Oil Spill | Read More

Gen. Stanley McCrystal meets with Obama

  The meeting between the General and Obama is over, yet we have not heard any word on if he’s going to be fired. McCrystal under fire for the Rolling Stone magazine article that was very critical of key figures in Obama’s regime. The met for approximately a half hour according to the AP....
June 23rd, 2010 | National Security | Read More

Gen. McChrystal and White House in new tiff

This new one over remarks he made which ended up in a Rolling Stone article. I really dont have an answer as to why the Rolling Stone Magazine is writing articles about him, but thats a different matter. My favorite part was when one of McChrystal’s aides called Obama’s National Security...
June 22nd, 2010 | Uncategorized | Read More

Now Rahm Emanuel supporters say he’ll stay till 2011

In what seems to be a trial ballon story (put out a rumor and see how it goes) the White House is blasting reports that Rahm Emanuel is leaving the regime. Of course they are. It looks terrible for them.
June 22nd, 2010 | White House | Read More

What is going on in the stock market?

  The stock market has been on a recent uptick. It has been going on since June 7th. The market had a terrbile May, losing all of the ground it gained over the year. Then in the first week of June it went into negative territory. It hit bottom June 7th and hasn’t stopped rising since. These would...
June 21st, 2010 | Investing | Read More

Rahm Emanuel to leave White House?

  This was the point of an article published in the Telegraph late last night, or early morning in England. It seems Obama’s boys aren’t getting along that well. Rahm is frustrated by the idealistically left wing lunatics that currently occupy Barack’s inner circle of advisors. That’s...
June 21st, 2010 | White House | Read More