You know the economy is getting bad when Hormel can’t produce Spam quick enough: The economy is in tatters and, for millions of people, the future is uncertain. But for some employees at the Hormel Foods Corporation plant here, times have never been better. They are working at a furious pace and piling up all […]
Just now breaking on MSNBC. This is 40,000 more than projected. Also the September numbers have been reprojected for the worse. This now pushes us over 1 million jobs lost this year.
I spent quiet some time in the appliance repair field before it had a sudden collapse around the turn of the millennium. We became a disposable society where people didn’t fix their appliances and just decided to throw them away. Appliance manufacturers also helped promote this by really jacking up the price on repair parts. […]
Wow – that’s the biggest job loss in five years, and a report sure to send turmoil through Wall Street today.
So it’s not only the New York Times taking McCain’s campaign manager to task. Newsweek is also reporting about the $15,000 a month Rick Davis made from Freddie and Fannie up to last month. You can bet we will hear a bunch more crying about the media from the McCain campaign in the coming days. […]
Another sad statistic on our failing economy. For 6 months straight we have lost jobs. Of course this is “business as usual” to the GOP.
Why the thanks? Because of this: BP PLC, Europe’s second biggest oil producer, reported a 63 percent surge in first quarter net profit on Monday after crude oil prices soared to an all-time high and natural gas prices also rose. Isn’t it nice to know your family is starving so the oil companies can get […]
By having his agencies screw up the terrorist watch list: A new Justice Department audit shows that for nearly three years the FBI gave outdated, incomplete and error-riddled data about terror suspects to be added to the government’s watchlist. Overall, the audit by the department’s inspector general gives the FBI a mixed review for its […]
We could be looking at another free trade deal, this time with Korea, within the next few months. You can almost see the tech jobs fleeing our country for a place of new opportunity.