Going for broke

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• What do you think is causing the sluggish labor market?

  Fri Jun 3, 2011
  • NO DEMAND! If there's no demand, there's no hiring - plain and simple.

• Five gadgets that will be dead in five years

  Tue May 10, 2011
  • Did the cable/cell phone companies write this? For DVD/wireless router I would have to be completely dependent on my cable company, and whatever rate they decide to charge, for any entertainment and home networking - something that I'm not cool with.

• New claims for unemployment aid rise unexpectedly

  Thu May 5, 2011
  • My thought exactly - are people laid off for a week? Or have they used up all other excuses (weather...) and spring break came to mind. I wonder what it will be next month... unusual west-southwest winds at exactly 8 mph discouraged people from shopping and lead to layoffs?

• SUVs for Gulf cleanup? States run up questionable bills with BP recovery money

  Mon Apr 11, 2011
  • Interesting they used it to buy large SUVs to "drive to countless meetings"... So at least BP is getting some of the money back at the pump.

• Shoppers on deadline still crowding the malls

  Sun Dec 19, 2010
  • And then the question is - pay or default? One of the business magazines (CNBC or BusinessWeek I think) did a piece questioning that there might be a decent amount of strategic defaults coming where people are planning to never pay the bill.

• Fixing cargo security system would cost billions

  Mon Nov 1, 2010
  • It's simpler than that, VAGuy - we're content to pay millions to strip-search every passenger, take everything over 3 oz and stand in long, long lines so no suicide bombers get on the plane.

• Fixing cargo security system would cost billions

  Mon Nov 1, 2010
  • Socialists? I believe Bush was the one with the Patriot Act, warrantless wiretapping, etc all for "public safety".

• Flier frustration mounts over sky-high airline fees

  Thu Sep 23, 2010
  • So if no one flies, do the airlines go under, change fee structure, or go begging to the government for "assistance" because not enough people are flying? I'm not too optimistic about #1 and #2...

• Sales of new homes fell 12.4 percent in July

  Wed Aug 25, 2010
  • Exactly - when we were looking at houses, very few sellers even wanted to negotiate (I think some of this had to do with real estate agents still wanting to keep home prices up and telling them not to). Most sellers had a value from 2007 and refused to accept that anything had changed.

• Sales of new homes fell 12.4 percent in July

  Wed Aug 25, 2010
  • These "economists" still have jobs? I've wondered that myself - one or two months of unexpected results I can live with, but EVERY month it's unexpected? If I was wrong every month, I think I would be fired...