Base adequacy sounds like one of the world's most boring terms [but] this isn't extravagant funding. It's middle-of-the-pack funding. Our goal is to ask that the state keep the promise it made to students and pay its debt to our families.

Once Michigan stood proud. In addition to GM, Ford and Chrysler, it was home base for the United Auto Workers, a powerful escalator transporting hundreds of thousands of blue-collar workers into America's middle class.

That one really surprised me.

Capital adequacy is a prime requirement for credit growth when it comes to a Commercial Bank. However, having a total Capital ratio (Tier I + Tier II) above 15% (according to Basel II regulatory framework) illustrates inefficiency of the Bank!

Having won re-election convincingly and against the economic odds, President Obama quickly made good on his promise of maintaining taxes as they are for the middle class while raising them on the wealthiest Americans.

No, you don't talk enough to be boring.