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Layoffs!
Help Wanted: Mass Layoffs Increase Strain on American Economy
Mass-Layoffs?
安民、兴市、治党之捷径。
 
解放思想、添时加岗、全民就业
 
因为这一切事发生的日子快要到了。
http://www.hjclub.com/bbs/viewtopic.php?p=158202&sid=e82fd2497e840f18d06378cb8be1f5b1
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/102315/Help-Wanted-Mass-Layoffs-Increase-Strain-on-American-Economy?
tickers=MRK,YHOO,GE,GS,KO,BAC,AA
Posted Oct 27, 2008 12:50pm EDT by Aaron Task in Investing, Recession
Related: MRK, YHOO, GE, GS, KO, BAC, AA
As if a housing crisis and global market meltdown aren't bad enough, layoffs are rising too: September was the worst month for "mass" layoffs since 2001, the WSJ reports.
And the hits just kept coming in October:
"In just the last two weeks, the list of companies announcing their intention to cut workers has read like a Who's Who of corporate America," the NY Times reports: "Merck, Yahoo, General Electric, Xerox, Pratt & Whitney, Goldman Sachs, Whirlpool, Bank of America, Alcoa, Coca-Cola, the Detroit automakers and nearly all the airlines."
The good news for investors is that stocks typically bottom long before the economy and unemployment turn a corner. The bad news is rising joblessness and its impact on the real economy -- most notably housing and consumer spending -- may just be getting started.
Economists are now debating how high unemployment will rise from its still relatively low 6.1%. Among the milestones currently being targeted:
• Recent peak of 6.3% in June 2003 (seems like a lock)
• Early 1990's recession peak of 7.8% (likely)
• Late 1982 recession peak of 10.8% (extreme, but not unthinkable)
• Great Depression 25% (unthinkable)
At this point the best hope for jobs growth appears to be a massive program of fiscal spending by the Federal government, regardless of who wins the election. That isn't what champions of free-market capitalism want to hear but their complaints are likely to fall on deaf ears as private corporations continue to shed jobs.
Johnny Ike - Monday October 27, 2008 12:59PM EDT
Sad.....it all their fault............I know the feelings........
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flyincoyote - Monday October 27, 2008 01:01PM EDT
layoffs will only accellerate with an obama administration....
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joebob - Monday October 27, 2008 01:03PM EDT
I lived through the early 80's recession. We toughed it out and emerged stronger because it WASN'T a election year and we had a President who could stick to his (and actually had) principles . Both parties are pushing whatever buttons they can to benefit their candidates. The could care less about the long term damage their intervention is creating. And, unlike 1982, this one will be long and painful because of the "bail me out" expectations that have been created.
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joebob - Monday October 27, 2008 01:03PM EDT
I lived through the early 80's recession. We toughed it out and emerged stronger because it WASN'T a election year and we had a President who could stick to his (and actually had) principles . Both parties are pushing whatever buttons they can to benefit their candidates. The could care less about the long term damage their intervention is creating. And, unlike 1982, this one will be long and painful because of the "bail me out" expectations that have been created.
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Mary Sobrepena - Monday October 27, 2008 01:14PM EDT
The title "Help Wanted ..." FORGET THAT ... SHOULD state JOBS WANTED What a pain - lost the job last year, looking desperately since then, unemployment extention now exhausted - AND NO JOBS ARE AVAILABLE !!!!!!! Talk about the credit freeze - WHAT ABOUT THE JOBS FREEZE
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Mary Sobrepena - Monday October 27, 2008 01:14PM EDT
The title "Help Wanted ..." FORGET THAT ... SHOULD state JOBS WANTED What a pain - lost the job last year, looking desperately since then, unemployment extention now exhausted - AND NO JOBS ARE AVAILABLE !!!!!!! Talk about the credit freeze - WHAT ABOUT THE JOBS FREEZE
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:18PM EDT
These guys said the one entity not laying-off is the government...right after they rolled the list of top entities laying-off employees through September, and Government/non-profit ranked in top-5 (eliminated 66.8 thousand employees). Too funny. State governments have been laying-off massive numbers of employees, particularly teachers (California, Ohio and other states). CA cut, what, 25% of its teachers already? It cut parks/recreation, police/fire, and many administration positions.
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ronover47 - Monday October 27, 2008 01:20PM EDT
As long as we "believe" our elected officials,we will be between a rock and a hard place! Vote the lying,self-centered,ego-tistical, dumb-asses out of office! Once they see we are serious,they will change their ways,or pay the price!
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matthew s - Monday October 27, 2008 01:21PM EDT
It took George W. ,and the Republican Administration 8 years to reduce the middle class to near poverty level. Does not matter who wins on November 4th. The Titantic is sailing towards the Iceberg, with George W. at the helm for another 3 months. A lot of Socialist programs are being put in place NOW.
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Jim B - Monday October 27, 2008 01:24PM EDT
Can't people see that government is not the solution to this problem - they are the CAUSE of it ! The Federal Government is slowly taking over every aspect of our lives and it is their pumping trillions of dollars of funny money into the system to prop up phony "asset" prices that is going to make getting out of this mess take a decade instead of a year. It all needs to crash - stock prices - home prices - all of it. We are going to see hyperinflation like Zimbabwe is this lunacy doesn't stop.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:28PM EDT
You will never see headline unemployment at 25% because they tweaked how it is reported. Same for the jobs report, inflation, and the rest of the statistics from the government. The number is no longer important, it is the trend, and it's headed the wrong way.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:31PM EDT
flyincoyote, I'm sure you have a great job courtesy of the Bush Cheney policies, maybe you should ask all your friends who have been laid off about how they feel about the economy under the great Republican policies of the past 8 years. Once last piece of advice, before you blurt out ignorant remarks, LOOK IN THE MIRROR!
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:31PM EDT
The big difference is the government in the 80s had not already spent over a trillion dollars to shore up the financial markets, we were out of Vietnam so no cash drain there and the Fed did not lower rates and literally give away money to banks for them to lend(For which the are being very slow to loan out). Now everybody expects their own bail outas joebob pointed out. Just wait until unemployment really takes off and the Banks don't get their credit card and car loan payments, Leasing companies don't get their lease payments that is when the big financial crisis is going to hit. At least real estate has value to it even though it is declining. Unpaid credit card accounts and as a whole depreciated motor vehicles have no value. We have seen nothing yet in my humble opinion. The US Government can not keep printing money to keep bailing out the markets/banks/Wall Street, there will be nothing left.
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mortgagemainevent - Monday October 27, 2008 01:33PM EDT
nd you two, should be the first ones they let go. Peple are not responding to Yahoo, because it has only negative news now. A lot of people turn to you for news and or a good start to their day. Yahoo revenues are down because of you and your negative spin doctoring.
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Craig H - Monday October 27, 2008 01:38PM EDT
All politicians are bullshit artists. They tell you what they think you want to hear. Bush is useless, always has been, should have never been put in office for a second term. The people kept him in there even after his first term of screwing everything up and the lies that were coming out of his mouth. You cannot trust a politician, they have the best benifits, locked in retirement after a 2 terms in office. Everybody has taken cuts but they do not. The people need to stand up and reduce government and remind them that they work for us, not tell us what is good for us. Get rid of at least half of them to reduce the tax payers cost. Most of them are not worth the paycheck they recieve.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:40PM EDT
Lost my job a few weeks ago and now I'm being forced to look for government jobs - and I've been in high tech for 15 years with LOTS of experience. You keep hearing how this country is DESPERATE for high tech workers and how much they need more engineers. I'm here to tell you that's a bunch of bull. The people keeping their jobs are the executives and managers. Everything is being outsourced now, so if you want a nice paying engineering job, move to India or work for the government.
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Ross P - Monday October 27, 2008 01:40PM EDT
Thank goodness Obama is going to win. Job losses will happen regardless and it will be severe but if McCain was going to win, we would loss millions more jobs than already anticipated. Anyone who thinks we are screwed under an Obama administration only says that out of extremist loyalty to the GOP. Obama has the Clinton, Buffett, and many other proven economic minds on his team. It's up to the American people to step up and help soften the inevitable. Conserve, help each other, and fight corporate greed. Don't do business with companies who don't care about you and reward the ones that do. Coca Cola has no God given right to be #1. Says who? You still have to drink, so drink from a more responsible and consumer friendly vendor. That's part of the work we do to restore the integrity of our economic prosperity. Send greed packing.
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capt499 - Monday October 27, 2008 01:42PM EDT
Stop the foreclosures first. Give the states money to balance their budgets. Start massive programs to fix our inter structure now. Extend unemployments benefits. Help the poor to heat their homes. Raise the food stamp amount to needy families. Stock the food panteries with goverment surplus food. Pass laws to lower interest rates on credit cards.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:44PM EDT
Just a bit off topic but we all have been bashing Bush on this site, myself included, but my mom thats right my mom bought a good point we all seem to overlook WE HAVE NOT BEEN ATTACKED HERE AGAIN SINCE9/11. Give credit to whoever you like but he is in charge. Having said that i'm glad he'll be out of a job soon. OBAMA '08
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:45PM EDT
This is so much more than W's fault. If that is what people keep telling themselves and don't hold them ALL accountable then we are doomed to stay the course and will have learned nothing from this mess.
Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:46PM EDT
8 years of lying, Give my plan a chance it will work HA HA!! The amount of people laid off number is false info from government, they don't include the people laid off and have run "OUT "of benefits. Washington needs a "complete' change of people in office. Vote against "ALL" incumbents,not matter which party they belong to.
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Johnny Ike - Monday October 27, 2008 01:46PM EDT
All are to blame.....Especially those with university degree that fool many American with regards to credit and finance.....
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Josh S - Monday October 27, 2008 01:54PM EDT
We can all pin this particular Depression directly on the very "principaled" Ronald Reagon the great Deregulator. And now people are actualy going to vote for John McCain a man who is proud of being a Deregulator. Thats not political spin that is directly from his own mouth. Lets get a clue and elect Obama. It's not perfect but lets not give the country back to the same people who got us where we are right now again!
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mikemayzak - Monday October 27, 2008 01:54PM EDT
This market is going to struggle until the middle class catches up to the future dollars we've spent - then we will come to an economy that is truly rightsized. For some that timeframe may be a few months - others a few years. Get out of debt as quickly as you possibly you can. The days of living on debt are over. Thanks to the greed of our parents and their generation. Their kids are paying for it now - with our retirement dollars.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 01:54PM EDT
The REAL news IS bad. Hold on to your cash. Deflation has already begun. Cash is King!!!
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Peggy N - Monday October 27, 2008 01:56PM EDT
20 million illegal aliens = 20 million jobs.........
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Johnny Ike - Monday October 27, 2008 01:56PM EDT
No wonder many clever Univerity Degree Holder,fool fellow American with their finance and credit tha end up near to total messy economies in effect...One of the affected is Employment......Mass lay-out...... Ask the Bias politician....From President,to Senator,to Congressmen,to Bankers,to realtor,to credit agency,Bias Media and to Lawyer....All of them are corrupt that make the entire citizenry in panic and fear of losing jobs and living.....True
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Pura Vida - Monday October 27, 2008 01:56PM EDT
As an executive recruiter, I am directly affected by this market. While it's important to create jobs it is even more important to recognize our times have changed...permanently. It would behooth us to look at job creation from a global and long term perspective. If we can champion new industries or become leaders in growing industries the job creation will come along with that. I believe in teaching people to fish rather than just handing them food. So I do not like the idea of government 'creating' jobs with no long term future. If it is a temporary fix to carry us through these perilous times, fine. But the goverment has an all-or-nothing way of helping with social programs, etc.
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Don - Monday October 27, 2008 01:56PM EDT
There is plenty of blame to go around on this problem. Government and greedy self-interest executives are the main issue. You would have thought the government would have learned from the mistakes of the 1980s but they did not and just repeated the same things in the 2000s. We had a couple of recessions during the 80s, high unemployment, unprecidented rise (until the last 5 years) in gas prices, outrageous interest rates and the beginning of sending good honest, decent paying work out of the country that Americans had been proudly doing for years. The mid 90s restored the stability and started to give American workers hope. However, the excessive out sourcing and H1B worker programs have help kill the middle class and the American worker. Couple that with a rediculous self serving war that has not only cost thousands of brave, American service men and women their lives but also put the country in the biggest deficit in its history. One thing is certain, GW Bush will not only go down as the sorriest president ever but will be forever linked to negatively affecting the U.S. standing in the world. Who ever becomes the next president will have a huge undertaking in order to turn around the country and restore hope and optimism to the American people. We the middle class are the ones that will be paying for the greedy fat cats excess. They will continue to get their undeserving bonuses for slashing 100s of thousands of jobs to make them look good in their board of directors eyes while the middle class continues to lose their homes and futures.
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Heywood Jabloemey - Monday October 27, 2008 01:57PM EDT
I hope systems will be put in place that will prevent a financial debacle like we are having now. Recessions will unfortunately occur, but this one got ugly real fast. McCain '08!!
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reedersong - Monday October 27, 2008 01:59PM EDT
Overall numbers are bad, but some places are still okay. Everything is relative.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:01PM EDT
GW? 8 Years? What a moron.You obviously have no idea where we are, or how we got here. Educate yourself. This has nothing to do with party politics. There's plenty of blame to go around, starting with Jimmy Carter, BTW. Anyone with a negative net worth is just as guilty. It's like GM. It's just as much the unions fault, as it is management. It does not matter who wins in November. Socialism only works when money exists to run the programs.The US is heading for default and life, as we know it, is almost over. The fall of the Roman Empire.
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M.P - Monday October 27, 2008 02:01PM EDT
My husband has been out of work for about a year now. I can't wait for OBAMA to win this election. OBAMA 08!!
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:01PM EDT
The Perfect storm is amongst us..working few..we will see a recession A global one. If you are in the Finance area looking for a job, the best I heard is Dubai, Shanghai, Mumbai or Goodbye. If you are a lawyer.. sit tight jobs will open up Jan 21, 2009 in DC If you are in Banking Spread your chheks & grab your knees.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:05PM EDT
Unemployment compesation in this country is an absolute JOKE. In order to prevent mass forclosures and bankruptsies, the unemployment benefit needs to be re-thought as a salary/benefits continuation policy. A layed off worker should be able to count on at least 75% of his wages and benefits. Additionally, since most of these workers will be hired at a wage substantially lower that their previous job, some sort of wage-equalization insurance needs to be made available. That would allow for the reemployed worker to have his reduced wages made up for between 12-24 months depending on the new job's wage scale. This would allow for a gradual downsizing of the individual's lifestyle.
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reedersong - Monday October 27, 2008 02:12PM EDT
The Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) in the United States and included banking reforms, some of which were designed to control speculation.[1] Some provisions such as Regulation Q, which allowed the Federal Reserve to regulate interest rates in savings accounts, were repealed by the Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980. Provisions that prohibit a bank holding company from owning other financial companies were repealed on November 12, 1999, by the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which passed the U.S. Senate in one form on a party-line vote of 54 (53 Republicans and 1 Democrat) to 44 (all Democrats) and on a 343-86 vote in a different form in the House of Representatives, before being resolved by a joint conference committee; the conference report was approved by both houses of Congress (Senate: 90-8-1, House: 362-57-15) and signed by President Bill Clinton.[2][3]
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:13PM EDT
As usual it becomes a blame Bush blog. Gee how about blaming Congress, Clinton, as well as Wall Street greed. The policies over the last decade and a half to two are responsible for our present condition, that includes players in both parties, the Fed Chairs, Treasury Secretaries and government does 1 thru 20. The only reason and the last time we had some Fiscal Constraint in government was in '94 when Congress passed the balance budget amendment. Now we are up against Congress and the Pres. may be of one party-spending and taxing will go off the Richter scale-checks and balances will disappear and transparency in goverment will be non-existence.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:13PM EDT
Ahoy there.. abandon ship.. the rats already left...
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madmilker - Monday October 27, 2008 02:14PM EDT
Tats what the word "CHEAP" can do...funny tat the few fat farmers back in 1776 didn't use tat word in writin' the American dream. Tat word "GREED" and "CHEAP" appeared bout the same time some 32 years ago.....sad!
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:15PM EDT
Here's an idea.. don't give anybody anything...
Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:15PM EDT
Here's an idea.. don't give anybody anything...
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:17PM EDT
Here's another idea.. stop blaming politicians.. they are just front men for special or "corporate" interests.. no fix corrupt lobby system no good life for you
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:17PM EDT
Here's another idea.. stop blaming politicians.. they are just front men for special or "corporate" interests.. no fix corrupt lobby system no good life for you
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:18PM EDT
Here's another idea.. stop blaming politicians.. they are just front men for special or "corporate" interests.. no fix corrupt lobby system no good life for you
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sniperron14 - Monday October 27, 2008 02:19PM EDT
If you really want to know who is ultimately responsible for this mess just look at the Federal Reserve. Created in 1913 by bankers for bankers this cartel of individuals and banks control the creation of credit and money. By the way 1913 was the same year the federal income tax became law. Up to that point our countryhad no federal income tax! The massive increases in credit and money caused this financial meltdown as it did in 1929! Both parties are responsible for this mess because leaders in both parties choose not to carry out their responsibilities to oversee the banking industry!
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:20PM EDT
Here's another idea.. try masturbation.. not the verbal kind... this mostly uninformed garbage is giving me a head ache.. ha ha
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sidneyleejohnson - Monday October 27, 2008 02:20PM EDT
I'm getting tired of the use of bogus employment numbers. www.shadowstats.com for the real deal.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:21PM EDT
Tell your mom "we haven't been attacked again" because the whole "boogieman is going to get you" story is a crock of BS!!!!! Designed to get us into a war that only profitted Halliburton and Big Oil, and the "elite" of corporations and the US GOVERNMENT. Also to try and get us to further capitulate our Constitutional rights. The goal there being to get us to accept a total ban of firearms possession. (As was accomplished in Australia 10 years ago) Which then makes it where we could never have any control again, even if we were to overcome our apathy and actually do what it will take to "Take back America". Is your mom's name "Edith Bunker"!
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:22PM EDT
So many problems.. it's as if you all just woke up... well it was a nice dream yes?
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Steven W - Monday October 27, 2008 02:23PM EDT
Matthew S and the other anonymous posters who want to put the blame of the current crises on Bush administration - You might check your facts before making a posts like these. The "mortgage meltdown" which prompted this chinese fire drill started long before Bush took office - The major banks and the Clinton Adminstation were pressuring Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to loosen restrictions on lending for new homes so that lower income families could buy homes. (go the the New York Times website and view this article http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9c0de7db153ef933a0575ac0a96f958260&sec=&spon=&&scp=1&sq=fannie%20mae%20clinton&st=cse ) In that article it states that this was a huge risk and that if the housing market ever turned - the government would have to step in and bail both groups out. (Guess what just happened!) In 2005 The Republicans in the senate introduced legislation to establish stricter guidelines and restrictions for Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae because of the mismanagement of their accounting and concern of the higher risk loans they were backing. The Democrats in unison were against the bill and unfortunately some republicans were bought out by Fannie Mae promoters to kill the bill (Assc Press article on Yahoo 2 weeks ago.) All levels of the banking industry were making hay while the storm was fast approaching. There was no real accountability and we got left with the bill. The real issue is that our society is about living beyond our means instead of staying within a set budget - everybody expects a hand out from the Fed Gov't but they do not want higher taxes. You can't spend more than you earn = bankruptcy, the same applies to our government. Neither party has all the answers and unless we put the Democrat/Republican thing aside and put people in office who are willing to put party affiliation aside we're screwed. In addiiton, We probably need to re-evaluate our "mass consumerism" mindset.
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hawk - Monday October 27, 2008 02:24PM EDT
Funny how Republicans that make two hundred fifty thousand or more welcome socialism for them and capitalism for the rest of the country that don't. You can see the fright in their eyes as this election moves to a conclusion
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:25PM EDT
I love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning.. nobody was complaining about anything when the good times were rolling... wah wah wah..
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:26PM EDT
Simple facts: The global financial system cannot cover the losses they have sustained. All governments should take their medicine, and let everything and everyone deserving of going bankrupt, go bankrupt. Then we can rebuild. Covering the losses of irresponsible and wreckless parties by printing dollars and saddling future tax payers with insurmountable debt is the precise recipe for absolute disaster. Obama vs McCain? Do you realize you are arguing about which officer stands at the wheel when the Titanic goes under? Not enough money to cover the losses, people. Simple as that. Unemployment compensation? You mean after the 6 month income cushion of savings you knew you should have saved, but did'nt? The time to change your lifestyle is before you go bankrupt. Whoops, too late!!
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:28PM EDT
OK.. we all know what the problems are and why most of them happened... Which do you think will happen first? The politicians will help you or the DOW will return to 14000? ha ha. Better roll up your sleeves and get to work.. America wasn't built by lazy ignorant whiners
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ipaxiromana - Monday October 27, 2008 02:30PM EDT
The crisis is not about credit liquidity. It is about solvency. Both republicans and democrats supported the idea of lending to people who do not have an idea of "responsibility." Right now the government is trying to blow a even bigger bubble to get out of this mess by lending/owning banks that made this mess in the first place. They should be allowed to fail because they are INSOLVENT!!! Until the government realizes that it carries responsibility to be honest to its citizens, and also make the banks honest about its debt. NONE of the measures will work. Because you cannot make banks(hopefully responsibility people) to lend to people that cannot repay you in the future. Like it or not there will be deflation first then may be inflation later with all this paper money that the governments are handing out.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:33PM EDT
TO YAHOO USER MY MOM"S NAME IS ROSE. And i'm sure like a lot of other mothers(except for maybe yours) she's more concerned about her childrens safe being. I was at the world trade center on 9/11 and am lucky to be here.I'm glad you can go home and bad mouth everyone who has an opinion with your mom, I'd rather have a nice meal and appreciate her as long as i can.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:35PM EDT
Elections? Just changing one brand of crap for another.. Enjoy the new crap.. until you vote for a real independent candidate who is not beholden to big money you will continue to be fleeced one way or another.. Blow their minds next week. Don't vote for Obama or McCain...
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:35PM EDT
i can only speak in my industry...but most of those laid off were the dead beats. during the construction boom any idiot could get a paycheck in a week. truth be told, most of those cut were deadwood, and never should have been employed anyways. mostly the best of the best were kept around. not to say there weren't exceptions, of course there were. it takes not only hard work and being the best in the room to keep your job but also making the right connections and friends. office politics are a must. the way to ride this out is to be the person who is first at work, and leaves last. says the right things. gets stuff done, etc. this isn't rocket science. you'll find work again. this time make sure you are the best and play the office politics game. be the person everyone in charge that hires and fires likes.
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Yahoo! Finance User - Monday October 27, 2008 02:38PM EDT
Elections? Just changing one brand of crap for another.. Enjoy the new crap.. until you vote for a real independent candidate who is not beholden to big money you will continue to be fleeced one way or another.. Blow their minds next week. Don't vote for Obama or McCain...
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richard g - Monday October 27, 2008 02:39PM EDT
The 80s? Folks the speakers and the commenters are not going back far enough. The key statement made in this report is that unemployment was calculated different in the 30s. We are clearly not far from the 30s if the current unemployment numbers were calculated the same way. In the 30s unemployment was based on the number of adults who could work, who were not working. Today we use a survey of those who say they are unemployed and looking for work. Guess what, most people who have been laid off from white collar jobs will not admit they are unemployed. They are free lance consultants or some other nonsense. There are currently 4 million homeless people on the streets. The illegals are all going home cause they can't get jobs. If one spouse is working then the spouse who is laid off doesn't count. We are already there, and things are going to get worse - especially for the folks who are out of work. It will take a year or more for any type of government work program to kick in, if it can be passed. The Repukes are going to fight this type of plan any way they can, so don't expect anything soon. You can already hear the Repuke language: socialism; redistribution of wealth; tax cuts do not give you anything back it is your money and you have a right to keep it. In other words, look for big battles to maintain the status quo. Don't think so, note that several large brokerages and banks have announced that there will be no decrease in bonuses for this year. Bonus apyouts for these banks will be in $6 to $7 billion range. The rich get richer, and they get to keep it. The dumb get dumber and they get to stay dumb.
ZT Mass Layoffs Increase Strain on American Economy
http://finance.yahoo.com/tech-ticker/article/102315/Help-Wanted-Mass-Layoffs-Increase-Strain-on-American-Economy?tickers=MRK,YHOO,GE,GS,KO,BAC,AA
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