Wal-Mart, CVS Alarm Doctors As Retailers Push Clinics (Josh Fineman)

By Josh Fineman Sept. 7, 2006 (Bloomberg) -- Lillian Grabel had one day of blood pressure medication left and didn't want a long wait in a doctor's office for a new prescription. So she turned to the ...

Dow ends down 75 on economic worries (Tim Paradis)

By TIM PARADIS -- AP Business Writer Stocks fell for the second straight day Thursday after warnings from several homebuilders raised investors' concerns about an economic slowdown and comments about ...

What If? (Enrico Orlandini)

Enrico Orlandini -- Dow Theory Analysis SAC Sept. 6, 2006 -- Have you ever wondered just how bad things could get? Well, I've lived long enough and traveled far and wide enough to know that things ca ...

The Art Of Lap Dining -- More From The Liberal (Sic) Media (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Sept. 7, 2006 -- The parameters of debate in the land of the free are narrower than Ann Coulters mind.

An Ounce Of Gold Measured In Tons Of $100 Bills (Mogambo Guru)

Richard Daughty, the angriest guy in economics -- World News Trust Sept. 5, 2006 -- Having consumed enough tranquilizers, mood elevators and anti-depressants that I am barely conscious and involuntar ...

The Evolution Will Be Televised (And Maybe Podcast, Too) (Mickey Z.)

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. --Mark Twain Sept. 5, 2006 -- Observation. There is perhaps no more valuable tool in the wo ...

Population Explosion Threatens To Trap Africa In Cycle Of Poverty (Xan Rice)

· World's poorest nations set to triple in size · Uganda leads growth that can change face of earth Xan Rice -- Guardian KAMPALA, Uganda -- Aug. 25, 2006 -- There are 27.7 million people in Uganda. B ...

Huge Oil Find Could Be Good News For U.S. Reserves (AP)

Well Drilled In Gulf Of Mexico OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Results from a deep-water test well in the Gulf of Mexico suggest a new pool of oil and gas that could boost U.S. reserves by as much as 50 percent ...

Why the Survivalists Have Got It Wrong (Rob Hopkins)

Rob Hopkins -- Energy Bulletin/Transition Culture Sept. 4, 2006 -- I have very little time for the survivalist response to peak oil, and on the back of a new article about it, Preparing for a Crash: ...

Ice Core Evidence Of Human Impact On CO2 In Air (Reuters)

(Reuters) -- Air from the oldest ice core confirms human activity has increased the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere to levels not seen for hundreds of thousands of years, scient ...

Yield-Curve Recession Indicator Flashes Yellow (Caroline Baum)

Caroline Baum (Bloomberg) -- Sept. 5, 2006 -- Unless the shape of the Treasury yield curve normalizes in the next few months, going from its current negative to a more normal positive slope, the U.S. ...