Keith Fitz-Gerald: In what can only be described as a madcap dash for votes in key battleground states, President Barack Obama and Candidate Mitt Romney worked the crowds late into the night. Read more…

Michael Snyder: On social media websites such as Twitter and Facebook, thousands of threats of violence were posted by supporters of Barack Obama on the evening prior to the election.  If you doubt this, just go on Twitter and do a search for keywords such as “Romney riot”, Read more…

Mac Slavo: By all accounts, the residents of many hurricane stricken areas of the north east are in the midst of a collapse. While FEMA, the National Guard and private relief organizations are in place and providing some level of assistance, the fact of the matter is that Read more…

Nadeem Walayat: The opinion polls continue to paint a picture of a close race between Obama and Romney going into the final two days of campaigning ahead of Tuesdays election. Read more…

Jonathan Yates: Already the estimates for Hurricane Sandy costs of storm damage have more than doubled, from $20 billion to $50 billion due to the magnitude of the storm. Read more…

Larry Edelson: Will it really matter who wins tomorrow’s election? That’s the $64 million question right now. Read more…

Mac Slavo: We’re days out from a Presidential election whose outcome will determine the future of the United States – or will it? Read more…

Michael Snyder: Will Hurricane Sandy turn out to be Obama’s Katrina?  When the storm first hit, the media was full of praise for the way that Barack Obama was handling the crisis.  Read more…

Mac Slavo: A recent study noted that the majority of people have enough food in their pantries to feed their household for about three days and that seemingly stable societies are really just nine meals from anarchy. With most of us dependent on just-in-time transportation systems  Read more…

Hurricane Sandy is another reminder of just how incredibly fragile the thin veneer of civilization that we all take for granted on a daily basis really is.  Many of the hardest hit areas Read more…

Nadeem_Walayat: The final countdown to the U.S. presidential election has now begun with expectations that there is little that each candidate can now effect on the electorate during the remaining 10 days. Most opinion polls currently put Romney slightly ahead of Read more…

William Patalon III:  As longtime readers know, I have a real affinity for old investing adages – in large part because of the very real lessons the best ones convey. Read more…

It is hard to put into words the absolute devastation that we are seeing along many areas of the east coast right now.  Boats have been washed ashore, homes have been razed, Read more…

Jared Cummans: As Sandy began to hammer the east coast late last night, the U.S. Department of Labor has yet to make a decision when to release October’s jobs data. This report will be a key factor in the upcoming election, as the undecideds will look to the jobs report Read more…

The biggest storm to ever hit the northeast United States is creating a tremendous amount of havoc up and down the eastern seaboard.  It is hard to describe how gigantic this storm actually is.  From end to end, Hurricane Sandy is more than 1000 miles across.  It is twice the size of the state Read more…