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Turning Around!

Do you thing we’re still in a recession? If you answered yes, you would be right. According to data there is nothing typical about what we’re going through. The world markets have improved, but jobs are still around 10 percent. The real unemployment rate is around 15 percent. But that’s how it happens, the economy recovers first, then jobs. Right now the Insurance Industry is getting hit pretty hard. People are losing their jobs and cars, which means there losing their health care, life insurance , and even car insurance. These are only a few insurance products I have listed that are hurting; there are a lot more out there. Sooner or later people will start to seek out new insurance rates, health care, and auto insurance, but only when they find work. So let’s hope for some go reports on the economy this week.

Higher Education!

I have been looking around on the internet for a few days now looking to see if I could find a university to get an affordable online degree. And to my surprise I found a university that was started by 19 Governors. The university is Western Governors Online University. They started at with about 500 students, all online. Today they serve around 19,000 students. And what makes this university worth checking out is that their an credited university. I will be checking out WGU for myself and my wife. My wife would love to finish her teaching degree. If she can get an online teaching degree in less time and save money that would be great. The information I read on their site should be read by anyone looking to get their degree online, great information, check them out.

Chemical Businesses!

I haven’t talked about the chemical industry for some time now. Maybe because I’m invested in it and it’s not doing to well. The chemical makers like Ashland, Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas haven’t been doing to hot over the last few years. Mostly because of the chemical products they produced have dropped off. When people stop buying things around the world this industry feels it the most. That’s because they make the raw materials that go into just about everything. All of these companies I just stated in this post have lost about 80 percent in value because of the down turn. Two of these companies had agree to come together before the down turn, Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas. Dow Chemical was going to purchase Rohm & Haas for $78 a share. But that deal has since falling apart, and Dow Chemical was paying a $3 million a day fee until they close the deal. And this deal also sparked Rohm & Haas to file a lawsuit against Dow Chemical; it was a big mess. However, over the last 2 years these companies have had a come back, a huge come back. Ashland is up from a low of $5.35 a year ago to almost $54 a share today. I have shares in Ashland, and have done pretty good with them, I think they still have room to grow, anyway that’s what I’m hoping.

Good Review!

Are you tired of searching for the best supplement reviews , or what ever review on a product you’re looking for online? I know that I am, a little tird of searching for a good review site. It seems that just about everyone out there likes tossing their view out there. I’m always on the hunt for sites that offer good reviews on things I’m looking for, like supplement’s. The problem I have is that every search I do I come across sites that offer their own view, not views from others. I would recommend to everyone to make sure you only use sites that let others submit reviews to their sites. Getting the view from one, or site owner if you well, isn’t good. Mostly becuase they have something to gain from the sale, so stay away from those people. It’s almost like you need to find a review on the site that is offering reviews, it’s not right. Once you find a good site that offers reviews, stick with them, that’s what I do, good luck!