8 hours ago by Black Pumpkin

Just what we need: more bad news. People are still losing their jobs and it may be a long time until we see employment numbers going back up. According to the Labor Department it seems that employers are simply forcing their employees to work harder instead of hiring more workers. Unfortunately, I h ...

Butter, Not Guns - butternotguns.wordpress.com · 2 references

9 hours ago by allocator

Severe recession. 10.2% unemployment. Crushing debt. Trillions hot off the presses. Or is it? The US is going to hell in a hand-basket. Or is it? In my little debt-clock blurb a couple of posts ago I used the Economist’s global debt clock site as one of the references. What they did was compile the ...

0 to IPO in 7 Years - stockadventures.wordpress.com · 17 references

9 hours ago by Áine

Take per capita real GDP. Give hostages by taking data from 1950 to 1980, which means including the 1980 recession, but stopping at 2007, so that the current slump isn’t included. Then here’s what you get: Growth in per capita real ...

Stumbling Around - stumblers.net · Rank: 107,597 · 2 references

15 hours ago by Bill Sharon

We live in a world where the means of exchange (money) has become vastly more important than what we exchange (goods and services). We have moved from a time when money or profit was one of several metrics by which a company could be judged to the only metric and more recently in many cases, to beco ...

What Needs To Go Right - sorms.blogspot.com · 1 reference

16 hours ago by Rodger Malcolm Mitchell

An alternative to popular faith Listen to Richard Koo’s tape at http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2009/11/richard-koo-great-recessions-lessons-learned-from-japan/comment-page-1/#comment-233008. He says some of what I have been saying for the past 15 years. Federal deficit spending is absolutely, positive ...

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16 hours ago by sakerfa

Wars reduce the GDP, destroy jobs, reduce productivity, and increase the trade deficit! If wars are ‘bad’ for the economy, then how are they sold so easily? The quick response: they are sold with focus group tested bullshit! There’s a ‘living’ in killing, we are told! There is a more opulent living ...

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17 hours ago by The Boss

Slang Corp recently released a free downloadable sampler entitled The Monsta Squad featuring GDP, Pistol Pete, Shape, TMFSE, Zagnuts, Larry Hobson, C-Minus, J Stamps & Shah/Sultan. You can click the above photo to download the sampler or go here. The very entertaining promo for the sampler is below.

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18 hours ago by Abhijit

The 21 member-states of Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) meeting in Singapore today include three of the world's biggest trading nations --- America, the world's biggest importer and third biggest exporter, China, second in exports and third in imports, and Japan, fourth in exports and impor ...

Blowin' In The Wind - pressrun.net/weblog · Rank: 101,897 · 25 references

18 hours ago by kylemcneil

Measuring what truly matters … or not … how long will we play the same game before we get it??? Our government & society still runs everything primarily based off Gross National Product and/or Gross Domestic Product … Here are some words from former US President Robert F Kennedy that will knock this ...

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19 hours ago by The Mayor

The Sens welcome the New Jersey Devils and their red hot record to SBP tonight for a 7pm matchup. The Devils won all 4 meetings with the Sens last year, hopefully a streak that ends tonight. The Devils are an impressive 10-4 this season, including 7-0 on the road, the only unbeaten team in the leagu ...

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