How Many Businesses Have Announced Closings or Layoffs Since Obama Won A Second Term?

Mike Opelka The Blaze 11/8/2012

Do elections have consequences? If you have been paying attention to the financial markets, you might think so. Wall Street has had two horrible days since President Obama won a second term.

However, stock prices are not the only thing taking a hit. It appears that the job market is […]

Wall Street in Multi-Day Retreat

Adam Samson Fox Business 11/8/2012

The markets took heavy losses for a second day in a row Thursday in a broad-based retreat late in the session. Every major sector closed to the downside.

Today’s Markets

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 121 points, or 0.94%, to 12811, the S&P 500 dipped 17 points, or 1.2%, […]

McCain, Graham tell companies to ignore White House on layoff notices

Susan Crabtree The Washington Times 10/5/2012

Two key Republican senators ratcheted up the pressure on defense industry companies to ignore advice from the Obama administration and the Pentagon encouraging them not to issue layoff notices associated with pending defense cuts before the election.

In a letter sent to 15 defense contractors Friday, Arizona Sen. John […]

Scandalous: White House Tells Contractors to Break Federal Law and Not Inform Workers They Will Be Laid Off; Further Tells Them The Administration Will Pay Their Fines For Breaking the Law

Ace Ace of Spades HQ 10/1/2012

Due to Obama’s failure to lead and craft a solution to the debt crisis, the Department of Defense is slated for massive cuts.

These cuts mean massive layoffs in both the DoD and affected industries.

200,000 or more layoffs.

The law requires that companies which know they’re going to […]

Scapegoating Oil Traders – Obama Depends On Public’s Ignorance To Shift Blame

Obama hasn’t a leg to stand on. But that doesn’t stop him from claiming that government is the answer to this made up problem.

Bruce McQuain Conservative Commune 4/18/2012

I could pretty much stop there and say the title tells you the story. Obama knows high gas prices are not good for his […]

Obama administration pressured Solyndra to delay layoffs for political gain

Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 11/15/2011

The Washington Post broke this story earlier this morning. Does anyone want to argue that Solyndra isn’t a scandal now?

The Obama administration urged officers of the struggling solar company Solyndra to postpone announcing planned layoffs until after the November 2010 midterm elections, newly released e-mails show. …

Solyndra’s chief executive […]

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