Wish I had better stuff to tell you:
- Stocks Slide 4.6%, End at 11-Month Low (WSJ) — To quote Billy Ray Valentine: So they’re panicking right now, they’re screaming “SELL! SELL!” to get out before the price keeps dropping. They’re panicking out there right now, I can feel it.
- Is the House G.O.P. Warming to Tax Increases? (NYT) — Funny how things can change sometimes.
- Riot fightback under way, says PM (BBC) — The most encouraging thing I saw on Twitter today was this, from @BritishMonarchy: “On 11 Aug 11:00: Changing the Guard at Buckingham Palacehttp://www.royal.gov.uk/G.” At least the Horse Guards aren’t afraid to get out on the streets. Apparently, it’s true: There’ll always be an England!
- Syrian army ‘kills Homs citizens’ (BBC) — Just to remind you there are places where life is worse than here and in England.
- Congress less popular than, well, so many things (WashPost) — I liked the lede: “Cloning sheep. Cloning humans, even. Caning teen vandals. Believing that aliens have descended from space and abducted humans. These are all things that, at one time or another, have enjoyed more public backing than Congress is getting right now.”
- Pay TV industry loses record number of subscribers (AP) — To quote the immortal Jerry Ratts: “News is what happens to, or interests, an editor.”
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Strangely enough oil prices are supposed to drop and send gas prices down 30 to 40 cents/ gallon according to the radio report this morning when I was driving to work.
Who knew?
That’s not strange at all. It goes along with a slowing economy. You want cheap gas? Reduce the demand.
And, from an Energy Party perspective, it’s not really a great thing to make it easier to get gas. It just makes things a little easier and makes us feel better in the short term.
Very true then. It just seems I haven’t noticed any slowing in driving with the prices as high as they are…
@Joanne–yes, I remember a few summers ago when gas really shot up, and there were many fewer cars on the roads–today, not so much. Either we are used to the higher prices, or we haven’t hit the tipping point yet–I recall it was $4/gal….