The U-6 unemployment rate . . .remained unchanged at 14.4 percent. Just as a reminder, the U-6 rate stood at 14.2 percent as of January 2009, when the president took office.

I may be in the minority here, but I don't believe that the stock market has much to do with the real economy that most of us live in.

150,000 jobs created, but 170,000 are no longer looking, driving the Unemployment number up to 7.9. But wall street says thats ok keep giving us money. Koolaid anyone. If you keep drinking it you may not see the bubble burst.

http://www.bankrate.com/finance/retirement/penalty-free-401-k-ira-withdrawals-1.aspx

Now that you're properly chastised, if you do need to take a withdrawal, some hardship situations qualify for a penalty exemption from an IRA or a 401(k) plan.

Note that penalty-free does not mean tax-free. All traditional IRA and 401(k) withdrawals require that you pay taxes at ordinary income rates. Contributions to a Roth IRA can be taken out at any time, and its earnings may be withdrawn penalty and tax-free after five years. The same rules apply to a Roth 401(k), but only if the employer plan permits.

In certain situations, a traditional IRA offers penalty-free withdrawals even when an employer-sponsored plan does not. We explain those situations below. Also, be aware that employer plans don't have to provide for hardship withdrawals at all. Many do, but they may permit hardship withdrawals only in certain situations -- for instance, for medical or funeral expenses, but not for housing or education purposes.

You would think with all these people not driving to work there would be plenty of cheap gas. Nope, gas is more than double what it was when Obama took office.

Enjoy the ride.

Obama wants to go after giant oil companies, especially when they are "bragging" about record profits and lets not mention the subsidies to oil companies that Democrats are fighting. Gas prices just went up 20 cents in some places and for what reason other than corporate greed.

When Obama took office in 2009, the price of gasoline was $1.80, Why is that? the economy was on the verge of collapse and we were about to go through the worst recession since the Great Depression.