Chapman University fellow in urban futures Joel Kotkin spends a great deal of time looking at which communities deliver and which do not, and he says it need not be a partisan issue.
Oil prices fell again on Thursday after declining by more than 5% in some oil futures contracts Wednesday due to markets eroding confidence in a European bailout deal.
There has been recent talk in the gold market that many traders went short gold futures late last week, figuring that a U.S. debt deal would be reached before the August 2 deadline and gold prices would then back off significantly when the debt deal was reached.
The forwards had discussed their futures repeatedly in recent months and when Perry closed in on his own deal late Sunday night, he called Getzlaf to let him know.