This idea that unemployment is a lagging indicator is the biggest (and
longest-running) prevarication of all the myriad lies being pushed by
the government with the cheer-leading assistance of the news media.
Since consumers drive sales (at any level you care to name), if there
are more and
All this is very tiresome. I can hear all this on CNN, FoxNews (no!) and MSNBC.
Let's get back to film posters before I chime in with my two cents worth and
bore you
all fucking to death.
Kirby
On Mar 7, 2010, at 2:47 PM, James Richard wrote:
This idea that unemployment is a lagging
I agree with you, kirby.
It was tiresome from the get go, especially in a forum like this.
the political discussions should be kept out.
On Mar 7, 2010, at 3:07 PM, Kirby McDaniel wrote:
All this is very tiresome. I can hear all this on CNN, FoxNews
(no!) and MSNBC.
Let's get back to
For the past two years when we were being told that the economy was in the
tank (2008 and 2009) we had our best two years since we've been in business.
First quarter of this year we've had a slight downturn which may be
attributable to the weather rather than the economy.
jim
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This has nothing to do with movie posters, but I was wondering if any of you
are wondering (as I am) if the government may be lying to us. I mean, in
totalitarian countries, the governments used to endlessly broadcast good
news, and record harvests, and increased production, in the hopes that
Certain Trades/Business's are starting to come out of the recession the
building/constuction industry being one of them.
Most Trades/Business's follow after the building/constuction and is a good
indication that things are getting better,
I do believe things are getting better but it might
recovery is clearly underway, however the game is changed, and the
generations are going to be suffering in different ways
the baby boomers who thought they were setting up their retirements
by buying anything they could possibly spend their money on until
finally making that incredibly
Bruce...I totally agree.
I see people unemployed, losing their homes, going bankrupt, etc.
But then again..employment is a lagging indicator.
The businesses that caused and felt the pain are the first to heal.
Then the common folk.
I dunno either.
On Mar 5, 2010, at 4:25 PM, Bruce Hershenson
I don't think the government is lying. Things are slowly improving. I
guess it depends a lot on what state you live in. I notice that
restaurants in New York are becoming crowded again. In January 2009,
they were empty. Tourists have begun coming back to the city in droves
and the legit theaters
I think as a nation we're lying to ourselves. We kept running up debt and
buying items that we didn't need and houses we couldn't afford. We also bought
Hummers as if the oil was going to get cheaper and more would just materialize.
Our economy is changing in big ways because we as a
What's interesting about this question is the disconnect between what people
see around them and what is happening in the economy. Our economy is too large
and diverse for any one person's experience to really encompass it. How do we
know what is happening in Silcon Valley, or the Texas oil
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