Of the estimated $2.5 billion that Barack Obama, Mitt Romney, and the Super-PACs supporting them will pump into the 2012 …
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Voting for Beer? Odd Election-Related Marketing Promotions
What do coffee, cookies, beer, airline flights, and organic tea have to do with the upcoming presidential election? Nothing whatsoever, really. But nowadays any major event—even one that’s potentially alienating, like the 2012 …
Drivers Can Expect At Least a Few More Weeks of High Gas Prices
Even as gas prices spiked in late summer, experts anticipated a fairly quick drop in prices at the pump soon after Labor Day. That hasn’t happened, partly because of the effects of Hurricane Isaac, and now gas prices aren’t …
The Euro Crisis: Why Greece’s Election Doesn’t Matter
Despite all the attention focused on Greece’s latest election, the results won’t alter the course of Europe’s widening debt crisis
Ballot Box Breakdown: How Europe’s Elections Will Heat Up the Debt Crisis
There have been many flaws in Europe’s strategy to resolve its ongoing debt crisis: The unreasonable obsession with austerity. The persistent reluctance to commit sufficient financial resources. The stubborn rejection of …
