Texas Plant's Grand Delusion, Obama Budget Secret, Organic Food Company vs. Obamacare And More

April 23, 2013 Subscribe · Forward Texas Plant's Hazards Eluded Regulators For Nearly 30 Years WEST, Texas -- Long before it captured national headlines as the scene of a lethal industrial explosion, the fertilizer plant on the edge of this central Texas town had been a community fixture, a crucial supply depot for farmers and ranchers who worked the surrounding pastures. No one seemed to regard it as a threat. "It's been there so long that you just take it for granted," said Jeanette Karlik, a columnist for the local newspaper, the West News.  Continue reading... Safety Inspections At Deadly Factories 'A Facade' Obama Budget Secretly Hiding A 'Back Door' Tax Increase Organic Food Company's Anti-Obamacare Stance Sparks Backlash Donations Exceed $360,000 For Boston Marathon Bombing Hero LOOK: This Is Possibly The Worst Dinner Date EVER LOOK: 16 Iconic American Companies Founded By Immigrants $5 Million Lottery Theft Trial Begins Bye Bye, Bernanke? LOOK: This Is Possibly The Worst Dinner Date EVER Nike Pulls T-Shirts With 'Boston Massacre' Slogan After Bombings Texas Plant's Hazards Eluded Regulators For Nearly 30 Years JARED BERNSTEIN Getting Back to Full Employment Getting back to full employment -- not debt, deficits, sequester, debt ceilings -- is what we ought to be talking about. I'm happy to say, in fact, that in my travels outside this benighted town, it's the question I get asked most often ("Why isn't Washington doing anything about jobs!!??"). Continue reading... DON MCNAY Life Lessons About Money and Happiness When you think about it, almost all of us have our own "lotto moment." We make decisions about money that will either give us long-term security and happiness or bring on pain and regret. Continue reading... ADAM LEVIN OCC Ya! The Government Agency That Should Fine Itself Let's face it. The biggest bank regulator in the U.S. is an abject failure. Worse, it's costing us oodles of money, and not just from bounced checks. Continue reading... DAVID COATES The Forgotten Jobs Crisis Unemployment and job insecurity are now becoming defining features of middle-class life in suburban America -- and as they become so, they are turning the American Dream into the American Nightmare for more and more Americans. Continue reading... MICHAEL PENTO Gold Reveals Global Economy on Thin Ice Explanations for this gold selloff abound everywhere and nearly all of them are inane and incorrect. What gold is really telling us is that the global economy is on very thin ice. Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003