A very GQ take on Starbucks

31Dec08

Hey, is there anywhere to get a decent cup of coffee around here? Oh, come on. Don’t look so sad. When we’re in the mood for a twenty-four-ounce cup of pumpkin-pie-flavored Cool Whip, a Feist CD covered in mocha fingerprints, a possibly exaggerated memoir by a former child soldier, and some customer “service” that denies [...]

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Gulf Oil CEO says gas could hit $1 next year

05Dec08

Gulf Oil CEO Joe Petrowski said on Wednesday that the price of oil could sink to $20 per barrel, and there is a chance gasoline prices could drop as low as $1 per gallon by early next year. Speaking at a South Shore Chamber of Commerce breakfast at Lombardo’s in Randolph, the Brockton native said [...]

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Why McCain Lost – And the 10 Quotes that Helped

11Nov08

An overwhelming majority of voters cited “economic concerns” as their main issue during this election, and with McCain bumbling over economic issues, he was easy to beat. We’ve all heard him say how “the fundamentals of the economy” were strong, but did you know McCain wanted to set the middle class/rich income threshold at the [...]

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Tags: Barack Obama, Crisis, Economy, election, Health insurance, John McCain, Phil Gramm, Politics, President, Quotes, republican, United States, Wall Street, Washington