“Oh, God,� why did he have to use that word? According to MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, the GOP “outsourced� the Republican response to a young, successful Indian-American governor who “had nothing to do with Congress.� They had to outsource the response tonight, the Republican party. They h...

The price of gasoline's certainly lower than the record highs of this past summer. But are they low enough? We make no allusions to intimately knowing the intricacies of the global oil production system and the resultant pricing flim-flam, but recent pricing has given us pause. The price of a barrel...

I know this is a hard one to believe, being that we are obviously in the middle of a deflationary period, but savvy institutional players are already starting to position themselves for inflationary times ahead. Inflation! Have I lost my mind? Actually, no... Let me explain what I mean. Former centr...

Climate realists around the world have contended for years that the real goal of alarmists such as Nobel Laureate Al Gore and his followers is to use the fear of man-made global warming to redistribute wealth. On Monday, one of Gore's leading scientific resources, Goddard Institute for Space Studies...

The severe economic downturn here in the US has lead to all sorts of bad news. Layoffs, business closings, and bailouts dominate the headlines, and good news can be hard to find. One of the only reasons to hold our heads high has been the unprecedented drop in gas prices. The recession has caused a ...

Here are the key numbers (in red) in Uncle Sam's November Personal Income and Outlays report (the July : Common sense says that the chart's results after adjusting for inflation are more important (identified as "Chained [2000] dollars" than those in current dollars. Consmers' disposable i...

As 2008 draws to a close, we thought we’d take a look back at some of Mashable’s most popular stories. These aren’t necessarily the most important pieces of news we reported this year, but simply the posts drawing the most attention from our readers. Perhaps indicative of the influence that so...

After months of describing how the Big Three need to be forcibly reinvented, and required to build cars under government-imposed environmental and fuel efficiency standards that don't apply to their foreign competitors, Thomas Friedman has shifted course. Sort of.Over the years, Detroit bosses kept ...

In 2008, worldwide interest in hybrid cars began to spike at the beginning of the summer, just as gas prices began to skyrocket. At least that’s when Google’s year-end Zeitgeist, released (and covered on GigaOM) today, shows a jump in searches for the term. Surely that’s just in th...

There’s so much to hate about the proposed bailout of the Big 4 automakers (GM, Chrysler, Ford, and Tesla), that you can occasionally be forgiven for forgetting some of the problems with the idea.  The Journal’s Holman Jenkins points out the most basic flaw: it can’t work. Leave ...