http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/blogs/daily-ticker/ en-US Copyright (c) 2012 Yahoo! Inc. All rights reserved 2012-02-23T09:11:28-05:00 5 http://finance.yahoo.com/rss/blogs/daily-ticker/ http://l.yimg.com/a/i/us/nws/th/main_142c.gif Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Woody Brock is mad as hell and he's not going to take it anymore. Brock, founder of Strategic Economic Decisions and author of American Gridlock: Why the Left and Right Are Both Wrong, hardly seems the Howard Beale type. He's an Ivy League-educated policy wonk with five [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/pitchforks-come-d-c-doesn-t-change-american-133015735.html2012-02-23T13:30:15ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/pitchforks-come-d-c-doesn-t-change-american-133015735Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! The Republican candidates for president face off tonight in the last debate before the next round of primaries on Tuesday, Feb. 28, in Arizona and Michigan. Ahead of the critical Super Tuesday primaries set for March 6, these two races gained importance, not only in terms of [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/ex-lobbyist-jack-abramoff-money-elections-mix-except-200440657.html2012-02-22T20:04:40ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/ex-lobbyist-jack-abramoff-money-elections-mix-except-200440657Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Existing-home sales increased slightly less than expected in the month of January, up 4.3% to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.57 million, and sales were up 0.7% compared to the same period a year earlier, according to the National Association of Realtors. This marks the third [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/housing-market-bottomed-two-years-ago-only-way-170243736.html2012-02-22T17:02:43ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/housing-market-bottomed-two-years-ago-only-way-170243736Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Global oil prices jumped to a nine-month high Tuesday to $106 a barrel after Iran announced it was stopping oil shipments to France and Britain. Iran is responding to heavy pressure from America, Europe and other allies, who want to stop the country's nuclear power program before [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/looming-threat-gas-prices-strait-hormuz-explained-134550480.html2012-02-22T13:45:50ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/looming-threat-gas-prices-strait-hormuz-explained-134550480Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! As NASCAR fans are gearing up for the season opener this Sunday, Feb. 26, in Daytona Beach, Florida, NASCAR Chairman and CEO Brian France sat down with The Daily Ticker's Aaron Task to discuss what fans can expect this season and what changes have been made to [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/nascar-ceo-brian-france-future-looks-bright-us-125037835.html2012-02-22T12:50:37ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/nascar-ceo-brian-france-future-looks-bright-us-125037835Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! If you had any lingering hopes that U.S. presidential elections are based on ideas and candidates, think again. More than in years passed, money is turning out to be the biggest determining factor during this race for the White House due to the unlimited amounts of cash [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/rise-super-pacs-u-votes-essentially-bought-says-170532882.html2012-02-21T17:05:32ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/rise-super-pacs-u-votes-essentially-bought-says-170532882Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! The powers-that-be in Europe have finally agreed to the latest Greek bailout. As expected, the package will involve 1) the restructuring of Greece's existing debt, 2) more "austerity" measures imposed on Greek government spending, and 3) a baby-sitting team from the rest of Europe charged with making [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/greece-finally-gets-latest-bailout-long-next-crisis-161145805.html2012-02-21T16:11:45ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/greece-finally-gets-latest-bailout-long-next-crisis-161145805Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! In his new book, American Gridlock: Why the Right and Left Are Both Wrong, Woody Brock, president and founder of Strategic Economic Decisions, describes five critical economic challenges facing America: 1. Preventing a "lost decade" of economic stagnation and mounting debt. 2. Preventing future national insolvency from [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/deficits-wonderful-woody-brock-explains-10-trillion-domestic-160054817.html2012-02-21T16:00:54ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/deficits-wonderful-woody-brock-explains-10-trillion-domestic-160054817Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! By Daniel Gross "The West as such is not finished, but its global supremacy is over," Zbigniew Brzezinski writes in his new book, Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power. But that doesn't mean the U.S. should simply sit back, detach from the evolving world, [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/zbigniew-brzezinski-strategic-vision-america-crisis-global-power-134846648.html2012-02-21T13:48:46ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/zbigniew-brzezinski-strategic-vision-america-crisis-global-power-134846648Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Does the Fed print money? Our recent attempt to answer this seemingly simple question prompted a torrent of comments, much of it negative and unfit for publication on a family-friendly Web site. (See: No, the Fed Does NOT 'Print Money': Just Explain It) In the accompanying video, [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/yes-course-fed-prints-money-jim-bianco-calls-184653798.html2012-02-17T18:46:53ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/yes-course-fed-prints-money-jim-bianco-calls-184653798Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! When LinkedIn went public in May 2011, shares of the stock more than doubled during its first day of trading. The stock closed at $94.25 after opening at $45 a share. The high demand and pop in price for the stock had the world questioning whether another [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/reid-hoffman-linkedin-future-place-manage-career-164712828.html2012-02-17T16:47:12ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/reid-hoffman-linkedin-future-place-manage-career-164712828Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! What do you and Silicon Valley entrepreneurs have in common? A lot says Reid Hoffman, the co-founder and chairman of LinkedIn. In Hoffman's new book "The Start-Up of You," he and co-author (and fellow entrepreneur) Ben Casnocha make parallels between start-up companies and working professionals, arguing that [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/linkedin-reid-hoffman-ceo-career-141007575.html2012-02-17T14:10:07ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/linkedin-reid-hoffman-ceo-career-141007575Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Stocks continued their 2012 surge Thursday, with the Dow breaching 12,900 and the S&P 500 hitting its highest level in nine months. The Nasdaq rose to a level not seen since the dot com bubble more than a decade ago.  Commodities also continued their 2012 trend, with [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/economy-handle-higher-oil-gas-prices-coming-frank-135053707.html2012-02-17T13:50:53ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/economy-handle-higher-oil-gas-prices-coming-frank-135053707Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! One contention of the Republican party is that Democrats don't understand business and are bad for business. GOP front-runner Mitt Romney has basically built his entire campaign on the theory that he knows how to run an economy and the Democrats don't. Given this, why does one [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/republicans-great-business-why-does-silicon-valley-support-193631152.html2012-02-16T19:36:31ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/republicans-great-business-why-does-silicon-valley-support-193631152Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Is college worth the cost? There is an on going debate in this country on just that question given the skyrocketing costs of higher education and the lingering debt burden that can take years for students to repay. The student who graduated in the class of 2009 [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/tech-billionaire-reid-hoffman-college-worth-cost-thoughtful-174105749.html2012-02-16T17:41:05ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/tech-billionaire-reid-hoffman-college-worth-cost-thoughtful-174105749Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here In November, voters will offer President Obama a pass/fail grade on his first term. When it comes to foreign policy, one veteran observer says he deserves a solid "B+". Zbigniew Brzezinski, a veteran foreign policy practitioner (he was National Security Advisor in the Carter administration) and analyst [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/zbigniew-brzezinski-obama-gets-b-foreign-policy-154345885.html2012-02-16T15:43:45ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/zbigniew-brzezinski-obama-gets-b-foreign-policy-154345885One of the big problems with the U.S. economy is the disappearance of the middle class. The rich keep getting richer and the poor stay poor, and many folks who used to have decent jobs and lives in the middle are now joining the ranks of the poor or near-poor. The reason this hurts the [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/dear-walmart-mcdonald-starbucks-feel-paying-employees-little-124603023.html2012-02-16T12:46:03ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/dear-walmart-mcdonald-starbucks-feel-paying-employees-little-124603023By Zachary Roth and Daniel Gross Can jobs be America's next big import from China? While touring a factory owned by Master Lock on Wednesday, President Obama urged manufacturers to bring jobs back to the U.S. "Right now we have an excellent opportunity to bring manufacturing back-- but we have to seize it," Obama said. [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/president-obama-touts-onshoring-made-america-back-221759270.html2012-02-15T22:17:59ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/president-obama-touts-onshoring-made-america-back-221759270Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! Fans of Whitney Houston opened their wallets to express their sadness over the 48-year-old's sudden death last Saturday at the Beverly Hills Hilton. "Whitney: The Greatest Hits" album sold 64,000 copies in just 24 hours after news of Houston's death became viral, and more than 101,000 Houston [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/whitney-houston-album-sales-surge-benefits-her-death-182958372.html2012-02-15T18:29:58ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/whitney-houston-album-sales-surge-benefits-her-death-182958372Follow Yahoo!'s The Daily Ticker on Facebook here! A day does not go by without numerous headlines on the rampant debt problems facing the global economy. From Greece's organized default to the sovereign debt problems facing other European nations, to the budget battle right here at home between President Obama and members of Congress, people [...]http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/global-debt-crises-pit-rich-against-poor-says-175915711.html2012-02-15T17:59:15ZDaily Tickerblogs/daily-ticker/global-debt-crises-pit-rich-against-poor-says-175915711