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Possible Double Dip Housing Recession If Unemployment Remains High

July 20, 2010

More bad news in the housing market.  Spring and summer are usually top marketing months for home sales, but the slide still continues to levels as low as 8 months ago.  Despite record low mortgage interest rates, according to Market Watch, unsold new homes are at  40 year lows.  Hard hit are areas like Nantucket, [...]

Tagged as: Mortgages, New Home Sales, Real Estate Sales June 2010, unemployment, Unsold Houses

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High Unemployment Means More Children Living In Poverty

July 12, 2010

There still remains a disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street. Fueled by bailouts from government, the current Wall Street rally does not necessarily equate to an improved job outlook. Even, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke admits that unemployment will remain high.   The sad thing about numbers is that they do not tell the whole [...]

Tagged as: Children In Poverty, Disconnect Wall Street and Main Street, unemployment, Wall Street, wall street rally

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New Graduates Find Job Outlook Grim

July 7, 2010

New York Times: American Dream Is Elusive for New Generation For young adults, the prospects in the workplace, even for the college-educated, have rarely been so bleak. Apart from the 14 percent who are unemployed and seeking work, as Scott Nicholson is, 23 percent are not even seeking a job, according to data from the [...]

Tagged as: College Graduates, Employment Stats, Hiring, Job Hunting, unemployment, Unemployment Figures

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Economist Forecasts: Double Dip Or Off The Cliff?

July 2, 2010

Despite the  positive spin President Obama tried to put on the lackluster jobs report today, the economy is still floundering, trying to find a firm footing on the road to recovery.  However, according to Dr. Peter Morici, a professor of economics at the Smith School of Economics, University of Maryland,  the nation is at risk [...]

Tagged as: 2010 and 1829 crash, china yuan, deficit, green energy, health reform, Inflation, oil wells, peter morici, recent jobs report, retail sales, Stimulus Package, summer of recovery, unemployment, white house policies

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6 to 1

February 10, 2010

Is this the odds in Vegas on a sports event? No. Unfortunately, it’s the ratio of applicants for every job opening in the U.S. Could this have been avoided? Who knows given the mess that Wall Street, the Federal Reserve, and a benign government got us into. One thing for sure is that it could’ve [...]

Tagged as: job loss, Obama, political commentary on economy, recent unemployment figures, Reformed Liberal, unemployment

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Death Without Mourning

November 12, 2009

Tagged as: ARRA, Change To Believe In, Economic crisis, Economy, Health Care Reform, Main Street, Obama Administration, Reformed Liberal, Stimulus Package, Taxes, unemployment, Wall Street

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Joke Of The Week: Irritating Phrases Made By Politicians

October 28, 2009

Fox News reported the phrases spoken often by politicians that voters find irritating.  Here are five that either have become annoying to us, or at least, ones that we consider particularly tiring and our spin on them: “Let  me be clear…”interpreted as I have to correct a statement  because either I or someone in my [...]

Tagged as: Add new tag, Economy, jobs saved, obama phrases, Political Humor, Reformed Liberal, unemployment

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90 Days Until Christmas…

September 25, 2009

Television shopping networks are promoting the Holiday season as a way to recover from a lackluster Fall season, which was promoted early to recover from a disappointing Back-To-School promos, which were advertised in early summer to boost poor Summer Sales.  Recovery?  Maybe for the big wigs sitting behind their corporate desks while patting their lobbyists [...]

Tagged as: bailouts, butasforme.com, Christmas, Congress, economic recovery, FDIC, Geithner, Goldman-Sachs, higher education, Holiday Season, Obama, Reformed Liberal, sales, Small Businesses, state revenues, Taxes, unemployment

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