Obama Miracle, Walmart's Strict Warning, Depressing Milestone And More

January 22, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Obama Inauguration Miraculously Doesn't Explode Entire Stock Market The stock market continues stubbornly not to collapse in President Obama's second term. Sort of like it stubbornly doubled in his first term. Despite the warnings of some market prognosticators that an Obama reelection would cause a recession and stock-market crash, the Dow Jones Industrial Average has gained more than 3 percent since Election Day, including the effects of a small post-election selloff supposedly triggered by Obama's victory over Mitt Romney. The Dow gained a little bit more on Tuesday, despite Obama's second inauguration on Monday.  Continue reading... Fed President: Big Banks Are Holding Us 'Hostage' Walmart Issues Strict Warning Unemployment Poised To Reach Depressing Milestone Jack Welch On Obama's Inauguration: President 'Comfortable With High Unemployment' McDonald's To Pay $700,000 To Settle Allegations Franchise Falsely Claimed Food Complied With Halal 7 Inauguration Promises Obama Never Fulfilled Whoever Wrote This KFC Tweet Deserves An Immediate Promotion Here's How Google Became Such A Great Place To Work Here's How Google Became Such A Great Place To Work Goldman Sachs Profiting From Food Crisis: Report McDonald's To Pay $700,000 To Settle Allegations Franchise Falsely Claimed Food Complied With Halal STEVEN COHEN Obama's Second Term and the Sustainability Agenda While the national agenda has many pieces, its mission must be to allow America to succeed in the emerging global economy. The center of that mission should be a single great national project: the development and implementation of low-cost, renewable energy. Continue reading... MARK GONGLOFF Goldman Sachs Profits By Ignoring Volcker Rule, Which Doesn't Actually Exist Yet See, folks, this right here is an example of how the rest of us playing checkers while Goldman Sachs is playing three-dimensional chess. Continue reading... CHRISTOPHER MITCHELL The FCC Chief Is Awesome at His Job if You Own a Big Cable Company Local businesses get it. Mayors get it. City councils get it. And unlike Chairman Genachowski, they know what the problem is: little incentive for massive, established cable monopolies to invest in networks when they are harvesting record profits and subscribers have no other choices. Continue reading... JARED BERNSTEIN President Obama's Second Inaugural Speech The President gave a strong and progressive second inaugural speech, one that resonantly underscored the most important themes he's been promulgating since before anyone even knew who he was. What I don't see is the path that goes from our budget constraints to meeting the aspirations he articulated. Continue reading... BHASKAR CHAKRAVORTI Tomorrow Is Now: Six Questions About the Road to 2025 If leaders do not have the courage to imagine the future, they won't play a part in shaping it. But if the future is so elusive, where do we start? First, ask what high-level trends tell us about where we might be headed. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here Unsubscribe here.