Let me first confess that I dislike shopping in malls. Perhaps I am agoraphobic and truly do have a fear of the market place. Given the incidents of this year’s Black Friday, can you blame me? People pepper-sprayed others so that they might grab that coveted treasure before someone else got the last. Hah! Don’t they realize that the closer it gets to Christmas, the better the deals? It’s all hype. The only good thing to come out of it is that this Black Friday may actually have been a …

There is little doubt that continued high unemployment rates will have a major impact on the 2010 mid-term elections, and may hamper Obama’s ability to accomplish other major campaign initiatives. The truth of the matter is that there is very little the Obama Administration (or any administration) can do to effect the economy in any significant way without changing the American capitalistic system.