A Stern Glance

You don’t sit at your desk all day, waiting for a phone call from journalists. Similarly, reporters don’t sit at their desks waiting for news about your company. In fact, given today’s smaller news staffs (because of reduced advertising revenues) and their increasingly busy workdays, there’s a very good chance reporters may not even see [...]

Personal income tumbled unexpectedly in July and inflation-adjusted spending shrank at sharpest rate in four years as the lift from government stimulus checks waned, a Commerce Department report on Friday showed.
A big jump in prices pushed inflation to a 17-year high, the Commerce Department said, eroding what little spending power consumers had. The report suggested [...]

The economy shifted to a higher gear in the spring, growing at its fastest pace in nearly a year as foreign buyers snapped up U.S. exports and tax rebates spurred shoppers at home.The Commerce Department reported today that gross domestic product, or GDP, increased at a 3.3 percent annual rate in the April-June quarter. The [...]

Orders for big-ticket manufactured goods turned in a second consecutive strong monthly performance in July, a far bigger-than-expected gain led by a huge jump in demand for commercial aircraft.
The Commerce Department reported today that orders for durable goods rose 1.3 percent last month, far above the slight 0.1 percent increase economists had been expecting.
The July [...]

Henderson, NV - August 26, 2008 - Silver State Bancorp (NASDAQ: SSBX), the holding company for Silver State Bank,  announced today that the Company’s Board of Directors, upon the recommendation of the Nominating and Governance Committee, appointed Mr. Phillip C. Peckman to the Company’s Audit Committee on August 22, 2008.
Mr. Peckman currently serves as the [...]