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Tuesday, May 29th, 2012

Posts Tagged S&P 500

Corporate profits highest since 1993, projected to keep soaring

By | 03.17.11 | 11:22 am

Bloomberg News reports that despite the continued effects of the recession felt by many Americans (unemployment levels, for example, still hover near 9 percent), corporations are posting some of their highest profits in decades.

Although financial indices have slumped recently because of the tsunami in Japan and a More…

How the Economy Killed McCain

By | 10.09.08 | 1:00 pm

Sometimes, a picture –or graph– really does say a thousand words.

The State of the Union plotted the S&P 500 and Sen. John McCain’s performance in the Gallup daily tracking poll, “with a two-day lag to let the market results filter through…”