Prices at the pump have jumped 14 cents over the past few weeks, working their way closer to the $3 mark, according to a survey published Sunday.
The average price nationwide of a gallon of self-serve regular is $2.74, the Lundberg Survey found.
That’s the highest price since October 2008.
“It’s very possible” prices will keep jumping in [...]
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The Huffington Post has come up with a nice little protest movement. Let’s pull our money out the the bailed-out banks and put it in local banks that lend to locals. Who are the locals? People just like us. We absolutely need to do something constructive to get the animal trash off the streets, asap. Salvation Army Major Philip Wise A Salvation Army major was shot dead in front of his three children on Christmas Eve in North Little Rock, Arkansas, authorities said. State and federal banking regulators seized three small lenders on Friday, lifting the total number of bank failures this year to 133. Source/Full Story: WSJ.com February 27, 2009 — U.S. regulator doubles projected bank failures costSource: Reuters InBank, the 14th bank to fail in Illinois this year Platinum Bank of Rolling Meadows was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision, which appointed the FDIC as receiver. Kansas City, Mo.-based First Bank of Kansas City also was closed by regulators. Sioux City, Iowa-based Vantus Bank In Arizona, First State Bank in Flagstaff Source/Full Story: MarketWatch [...] InBank, the 14th bank to fail in Illinois this year Platinum Bank of Rolling Meadows was closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision, which appointed the FDIC as receiver. Kansas City, Mo.-based First Bank of Kansas City also was closed by regulators. Sioux City, Iowa-based Vantus Bank In Arizona, First State Bank in Flagstaff Source/Full Story: MarketWatch [...] Brazil’s swine flu death toll has soared to almost 200, Health Minister Jose Temporao said Tuesday. His new figure of 192 was double the figure given by the health ministry last Wednesday, although a tally of individual states last week already came to 132 deaths. If confirmed by the World Health Organization, the new toll would mean [...] Four more banks failed according to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Friday, bringing the year’s total to 68, and to 93 failed banks since the beginning of the recession. First BankAmericano of Elizabeth, N.J., will have its deposits transferred to Crown Bank, Brick, N.J.; Peoples Community Bank of West Chester, Ohio, will have deposits [...] Seven banks were shut down by authorities Thursday, pushing the tally of failed banks for 2009 to 52, more than doubling the failures in 2008. [...] A 26-YEAR-old Perth woman has died of swine flu, taking the Australian tally of people killed by the virus to five. [...] Five U.S. banks with total assets of about $1.04 billion were seized by regulators, pushing this year’s tally of failures to 45 as a recession drives up unemployment and home foreclosures. Banks in Georgia, North Carolina and Kansas with total assets of $1.5 billion were closed yesterday, bringing this year’s tally of failures in the U.S. to 40 amid the highest unemployment in a quarter century. US investors are facing the worst year for dividend cuts since 1938, Standard & Poor’s has forecast, as a growing tally of blue-chip companies across the globe slash pay-outs for investors. |
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