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The Great Dow Delusion
If Dow Jones were a person, I’d ask him what roids he was taking today, cuz the rise in stocks was most definitely unnatural, since it coincided with reports of the higher than expected contraction of economic output in the country in Q1. At th...
Unemployment and job loss accelerate as more companies announce losses in second half of April
Yahoo lays off 700 more to deal with falling first quarter profits Close to 4,000 contractors lose jobs at Toshiba Sony Ericsson multi-million dollar first quarter loss prompts thousands of job cuts Media General cuts 300 in response to loss Teradyne...
YOU are the laughing stock of the next generation, yes YOU!
Sometime over the next few years, the government will have to reinstate some version of the glass-steagall act, which was originally conceived just after the crash of 29 and then effectively repealed in 2005, allowing that which we have on our hands ...
The end of the American way of life as we know it.
Happy Easter. Truly, I do not mean to be unpatriotic with this post, merely realistic, so don’t take the following the wrong way. The point is, our lives are changing, and changing fast. In the words of Haddaway, “life will never be the s...
Midwest auto industry: brace for impact
I’m from the American Midwest, so this Chicago Tribune article really strikes home for me. Tough times ahead for autos, towns In tattered and gray industrial towns across the Midwest, no one knows exactly where the ax will swing next. But th...
When your education system is fucked, you’re fucked.
Just my honest opinion, obviously. Yet, enough said, for now. Gordon Brown’s apprenticeship scheme FAILS Higher education chiefs have also warned that as many as 200,000 school-leavers could be refused university places in the autumn The re...

