Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have read more

Investors may want a premium on bonds, which may push the cost of borrowing up. But a downgrade will have an immediate impact on the cost of debt.

A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. read more

A lot of students that have a blackout for the first time learn from it and stop drinking so much. It is a scary thing to have happen.

It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be doing better read more

It's a fact that these perceptions lag reality -- it's not terribly uncommon for the economy to be doing better and better when you get to election day, but people feel the economy's in a funk. The latest example of that was Bush's father.

November rolled around and our checks came up smaller then normal. DC Studios was finally deducting Federal Taxes, another step read more

November rolled around and our checks came up smaller then normal. DC Studios was finally deducting Federal Taxes, another step we looked forward to during this acquisition. This happened twice in November, yet no new contracts had been drawn which justified any Dallas member as an actual employee of DC Studios. We questioned this matter, and in December, our first check came in and it was back to the old figures, where no taxes were being taken out. So where did our Federal Tax money go, not to mention the withholdings for Health Insurance, which we found out was canceled due to non-payment?

There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of read more

There are no clear reasons and I am not going to make one up to explain the recent strengthening of Epsilon.

The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's my sense that read more

The Senate race, in particular, brings a lot to bear in terms of the campaigns' organization. It's my sense that the main event is the Senate race.

If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.

If you haven't all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you wouldn't want.

White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an read more

White is a trend unto itself. From very pure, stark white to ecru, you can look at white as an entire color family. White is the neutral of the season against which all other colors are paired.

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, read more

I am so fascinated with this century it will help keep me alive. I'll be there until the last minute, fighting.