http://timeswampland.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/joblosses26091.gif
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:12 (fifteen years ago) link
(if you're squinting, the blue line is the 1990 recession, the red line is 2001, and the green line is the jobs already lost in the last 13 months.)
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:13 (fifteen years ago) link
we gonna die
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:23 (fifteen years ago) link
yikes! I think I'll stick to my wine, 30-Rock & sweet, sweet denial.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:28 (fifteen years ago) link
i guess i'll keep pretending i like my job
― commie II (jergins), Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:42 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 7 February 2009 06:00 (fifteen years ago) link
should just be in denial about the whole thing but it's hard. :-(
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Saturday, 7 February 2009 10:01 (fifteen years ago) link
don't panic
― Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Saturday, 7 February 2009 10:21 (fifteen years ago) link
There's always scrap metal theft to fall back on.
― Aimless, Saturday, 7 February 2009 18:09 (fifteen years ago) link
And the life of the roving vagabond is a bit unsung, I feel.
― Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Saturday, 7 February 2009 18:38 (fifteen years ago) link
just interviewed w/ a place that takes incoming calls from bankrupt ppl who need attorneys
― LOOK WHAT I BRING TO THE TABLA (deej), Saturday, 7 February 2009 19:23 (fifteen years ago) link
remember to take your last vacations for a decade this summer
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 7 February 2009 21:30 (fifteen years ago) link
IBM Offers to Send Laid-Off Staff to Other Countrieshttp://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/02/06/2010241
TheAmit writes to tell us that many recently laid off IBM employees have been offered jobs if they will only move somewhere it is cheap to employ them. IBM's new Project Match program offers some financial assistance for moving and immigration help for visas.
"However, the move has not gone well with the IBM staff union. Slamming the offer, a union spokesperson said that not only were jobs being shipped overseas, but Big Blue was trying to export the people for peanuts too. He added that at a time of rising unemployment IBM should be looking to keep both the work and the workers in the United States. " Posted by ScuttleMonkey
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 7 February 2009 22:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Of course, IBM and many companies like them would remain profitable without doing this, just not as profitable as they would like.
― Adam Bruneau, Saturday, 7 February 2009 23:00 (fifteen years ago) link
I was reading the comments on the IBM piece at Slashdot and thinking "Is this place full of corporate apologists or something? WTF" and I got to this one and now it all makes sense:
by Daishiman (698845) on Friday February 06, @10:04PM (#26761227)
Honestly, having worked several years in outsourcing at IBM, our American customers were as full of shit as we were.American IT workers have a sense of entitlement where they believe that the quality of their work is inherently superior simply because of their origin. Truth is, there's a lot of brilliant minds in the States, but like most places it is full of mediocre people.
― Adam Bruneau, Sunday, 8 February 2009 01:15 (fifteen years ago) link
i'm trying my best to stick fingers in my ears and sing ladeeda. instead my fingers keep going for my eyes.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 8 February 2009 08:46 (fifteen years ago) link
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Saturday, February 7, 2009 12:13 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark
Incorrect, and misleading. The green line is the RATE of job losses per month. What the graph shows is that we are shedding jobs much faster than we did during the other recessions and that the rate is still accelerating.
― autosocratic asphyxiation (Hurting 2), Sunday, 8 February 2009 09:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Well that's not at all comforting. Thanks.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 8 February 2009 09:21 (fifteen years ago) link
The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 381.99 points points, or 4.6 percent, to close at 7,888.88. The Dow had fallen as much as 420 points in the last half hour of trading.
The broader Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fell 4.9 percent or 42.73 points, to 827.16, its worst performance since a broad sell-off on Inauguration Day.
Despite the size and scope of the Obama administration’s plans, investors said Mr. Geithner’s proposal raised more questions than it answered. The way out of the financial crisis, analysts said, looked as murky as ever.
“We’re not impressed, and I don’t think the market’s impressed either,” said Ryan Larson, head equity trader at Voyageur Asset Management. “It’s clear the administration is still trying to work on something concrete. I think the market sensed that, too.”
― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.piney.com/MolechFlame.jpg
YES. THE MARKET SENSES IT.
― JtM Is Ruled By A Black Man (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:09 (fifteen years ago) link
(xp) No, I'm not going to waste bandwidth on why I'm disgusted w/ a protégé of Screaming Lobster of Bosnia's treasury secretary signing up. And I'm not commenting on Team Hope's results til the 100 days are up. Ta ta!
― charleston chain (jeff), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:10 (fifteen years ago) link
It's hard to spend wise and spend fast
― The Contemptible (Dandy Don Weiner), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:12 (fifteen years ago) link
I love days when wall street seems to operate like a bitchy little girl. I'd be buying stocks today if I had any money.
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:13 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, the market is a technical analyst's (i.e., a day trader's) wet dream and a fundamental analyst's worst nightmare.
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:21 (fifteen years ago) link
to correct the above: the way the market has been BEHAVING lately is a technical analyst's ...
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Tuesday, 10 February 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah not that I'm an expert / want anything to do with the stock market, but lately all of these "wall street is mad about something and gonna prove a point!!!" days always seem to lead to a "oh shit what did I do yesterday" bounce the next day.
― iatee, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 23:06 (fifteen years ago) link
I suppose I shouldn't be surprised but
http://www.dispatchpolitics.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/02/10/copy/caproos.html?adsec=politics&sid=101
― mullah mangenius (brownie), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 17:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Damned Austrians.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
what the loyal opposition considers to be a response to a recent pro-stimulus AFSCME ad
― Ein kluges Äpfelchen (Eisbaer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
we are gonna find out now what the effect of Bill Clinton shredding the safety net really is, right?
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:43 (fifteen years ago) link
yep
but why bother with an ounce of prevention when you can lard on a few pounds of cure
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 20:47 (fifteen years ago) link
no, it's total job losses. the y-axis is job losses in thousands. what's somewhat misleading is that it's raw numbers instead of as a percentage of the workforce, which was smaller in 1990, and a bit smaller in 2001. something showing the rate would look really alarming, since something like half the total has been since october.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 21:16 (fifteen years ago) link
so anyway, how 'bout that geithner plan huh? my dad called me this morning yelling about what a bankers' tool geithner is...
and for the record, I am not tipsy's dad.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 21:26 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 21:37 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/11/henrietta.hughes/index.html
Median housing prices in the Fort Myers metropolitan area have plummeted from $322,000 in December 2005 to less than $107,000 in December 2008, the Obama administration notes.
holy shit
― nosotros niggamos (HI DERE), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago) link
yeah, holy shit is right
― Euler, Wednesday, 11 February 2009 22:06 (fifteen years ago) link
yeh, there was a news story in one of the seattle papers yesterday, about a real estate insider/agent who's apparently snagged a few ears by claiming that housing prices must have bottomed out locally, cuz stats show that when prices hit 20% below 2008 valuation, buyers sweep in and houses get snapped up. so, since there's a bargain-hunter contingent waiting for the magical 80% price point, seattle prices can't ever fall any lower than that. QED.
assumption that there will always be a supply of people waiting and able to buy at the same price point went unconsidered. some fucking crazy wishful thinking going on these days....
― noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 22:14 (fifteen years ago) link
well, wishful thinking going on in places that aren't florida. right about now, i think everyone there pretty much knows how fucked they are
― noticing the cloud come (contenderizer), Wednesday, 11 February 2009 22:16 (fifteen years ago) link
Is Maxine Waters retarded?
― The Contemptible (Dandy Don Weiner), Thursday, 12 February 2009 12:48 (fifteen years ago) link
U.S. Rep. Steve Austria said he supports a scaled-down federal economic-stimulus proposal, but the Beavercreek Republican told The Dispatch editorial board that the huge influx of money into the economy could have a negative effect.
"When (President Franklin) Roosevelt did this, he put our country into a Great Depression," Austria said. "He tried to borrow and spend, he tried to use the Keynesian approach, and our country ended up in a Great Depression. That's just history."
― and what, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Up Beavercreek without etc.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:27 (fifteen years ago) link
Between him and that 'war of northern aggression' guy in Missouri, it's been another great week for the GOP.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
Steve Austria
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:28 (fifteen years ago) link
and w/out America's Funniest Legislators gotcha gaffes, the uncomprehending Dems (xp)
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
I love the fact that Sports Illustrated swimsuit models rang the closing bell on Wall Street yesterday.
― I shall always respect my elders (Z S), Thursday, 12 February 2009 15:59 (fifteen years ago) link
So Bar Rafael (?) was one of'em I assume or am I rong?
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:51 (fifteen years ago) link
Do these people even know how to read?
― Nicolars (Nicole), Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Republicans, not swimsuit models.
The latter are probably more literate.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 12 February 2009 16:55 (fifteen years ago) link