Frugal Café Blog Zone

Vicki McClure Davidson | November 16, 2011

  An expanded recall of Avaira Sphere and Avaira Toric lenses due to contamination from a silicone oil residue, thus increasing CooperVision Inc.’s recall to nearly 5 million, has negatively affected the company’s stocks. Oily residue contamination… eww. Gives me the shivers. From Fox News, Cooper Broadens Contact Lens Recall: Cooper Cos. (COO) has broadened [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | August 10, 2011

  As the stock market takes a second horrifying nosedive this week, so does the presidential approval index for Barack Obama. New York Times reported: After sweeping declines on Monday were followed by huge gains on Tuesday, stocks on Wall Street finished steeply lower on Wednesday as each of the three main indexes dropped more [...]

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Vicki McClure Davidson | August 5, 2011

  Sinister parody goodness — while this E-Trade video spoof was released a few months ago, it seems even more painfully fitting and weirdly prophetic this week with our federal debt explosion and stock market plunges. Sorry, baby, you can’t take it back. E-Trade Baby Loses Everything   H/t to HillBuzz. Don’t show this video [...]

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