What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[Wat_Tyler]

Fred's not an assassin...

No, but he was much more sticky than Jack. Lester Hayes got the stuff banned. There are pics of him with the crap on his helmet.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Just saying I would nail the RED Squirrel in place and hit him so hard that only his paws remain...



Shit Happens!

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I got that, and so did Kitteh.



I have one watching me as though I were a squirrel.



Where did I put that plug-o-chaw?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Put it in your pockets in case you wander into a patrol of flapped holsters...



I might miss the one on the right.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

You inflate the dollar and sooner or later those closest to the inflation end up with a Fistful of Dollars...





I'll play Rojo...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Ah yes, Ramon with his rifle.



Indio was better.



When the chimes end, pick up your gun . . . just try, Corronel.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Ramon was the Kurosawa rabbit with a gun...


:nods:

I'll be the sake brewer.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Have it ready when I get back from busting Sancho Perez outta jail.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Burn the silk merchant's whorehouse on your way back to Santa Rio...

 

[koalabear]

I think you've missed the point completely, but when do you ever get the point?

He's an idiot, States that invested in GM Bonds for their employee retirement accounts to a hit alright, they lost all of their money.

 

[mercury14]

OH HAPPY DAY!

JOY JOY JOY, OUR SAVIOR'S HERE!​

:happy dance: :happy dance: :happy dance:



We crossed that psychologically important 12K marker!

Wait, I thought your stance was dumbfuck taunting when the Dow crossed the 10k marker. Please go back and stand by your words Mr. flippy-flop.

Stop moving the goalposts.

 

[unregistered]

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Despite conservatives’ claims that the rhetoric used by President Obama and the 99 Percent Movement is hurting the economy, the stock market is on track to have one of its best months in history.

The Dow had added about 1,200 points this month by the closing bell Thursday, which would be the biggest point gain in the index’s history. The S&P 500 also had its biggest point gain in history this month. Measured by percentage, both indices are on track for their best month since 1987.

Somehow this is supposed to be bad right?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Wait, I thought your stance was dumbfuck taunting when the Dow crossed the 10k marker. Please go back and stand by your words Mr. flippy-flop.

Stop moving the goalposts.

You're being stupid.

I've been doing that for every milestone that proved, via, MEANINGLESS INDICATOR, except, of course FOR THE INITIAL DROP (as you keep pointing out), that the economy is roaring back to life as pointed out in the initial post, which is why unemployment is at 9% and there are a mere 400K in layoffs each month.

:nods:

Of course, the business world's terror at having Obama elected to the position where he could redistribute wealth and happily bankrupt the coal industry had nothing what-so-ever to do with that first precipitous drop, oh no, it was a time of hopey-changey and the uniting of the nation; the healing of race...

The fact that I am able to keep this up, should be a huge hint to some, but it's not.

Mama once said something about stupid...

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Despite conservatives’ claims that the rhetoric used by President Obama and the 99 Percent Movement is hurting the economy, the stock market is on track to have one of its best months in history.

The Dow had added about 1,200 points this month by the closing bell Thursday, which would be the biggest point gain in the index’s history. The S&P 500 also had its biggest point gain in history this month. Measured by percentage, both indices are on track for their best month since 1987.

Somehow this is supposed to be bad right?

Or temporary as the market is a herd animal driven by emotion and GREED!



That's why we hit this same mark, what, six times now, both ways? Who's to say we won't see seven when Italy and Spain decide fuck austerity, let the bondholders and Germans take it in the shorts; we're TOO BIG TO FAIL!

Have a Nice Day!

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

... or in January when the extended unemployment benefits run out...




Shit Happens!

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Or temporary as the market is a herd animal driven by emotion and GREED!



That's why we hit this same mark, what, six times now, both ways? Who's to say we won't see seven when Italy and Spain decide fuck austerity, let the bondholders and Germans take it in the shorts; we're TOO BIG TO FAIL!

Have a Nice Day!

I knew I could count on Cap'n "Conservative Not Republican" to come roaring in with a negative assessment as if on cue.

Newsflash Cap'n, there's nothing wrong with the DJI fluctuating from month to month, it's normal. If it were increasing at a rapid pace as if nothing had happened, the way you and yours seem to think a recovery should have gone, then I would worry.

But it's not, so I won't.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

... or in January when the extended unemployment benefits run out...




Shit Happens!

I know, there's always tomorrow, or next week, or next month, or next year.. Over two years now and you're still hoping for the failure that hasn't come.

[voice=Annie]
Tomorrow!
Tomorrow!
I love ya, tomorrow!
You're always a day away!
[/voice]

 

[Wat_Tyler]

I'm waiting for the recovery, which hasn't come, either.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I'm waiting for the recovery, which hasn't come, either.

The Democrats who feel the most superior about the great economy are the ones who had their job "saved." They just have no compassion for all the millions of Obama voters who actually got what they voted for...

Their whole attitude can be garnered by one OWS story. The guys who are looking for freebies like college loan forgiveness and the redistribution of wealth had a cow because "the professional homeless" showed up in their kitchen looking for a free meal.

NOT ON THEIR DIME BY GAWD!!!



Thank Gawd the globe is warming, so that this collective genius will not freeze to death.

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

I'm waiting for the recovery, which hasn't come, either.

Then you should be practicing conservative economic principles. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make your life better through your own efforts instead of waiting for the government to make it all better.

I wouldn't call the market fighting it's way back from sub 7000 to 12K a recovery either..
I wouldn't call going from losing 600K jobs per month to creating a couple hundred thousand per month a recovery either..
You know, if I were determined to not see any recovery.

 

[Wat_Tyler]

The Democrats who feel the most superior about the great economy are the ones who had their job "saved." They just have no compassion for all the millions of Obama voters who actually got what they voted for...

Their whole attitude can be garnered by one OWS story. The guys who are looking for freebies like college loan forgiveness and the redistribution of wealth had a cow because "the professional homeless" showed up in their kitchen looking for a free meal.

NOT ON THEIR DIME BY GAWD!!!



Thank Gawd the globe is warming, so that this collective genius will not freeze to death.

I imagine that they chose to be homeless, so they don't count in the unemployment stats.



When will catsup be reinstituted as a vegetable?

 

[Wat_Tyler]

Then you should be practicing conservative economic principles. Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and make your life better through your own efforts instead of waiting for the government to make it all better.

I wouldn't call the market fighting it's way back from sub 7000 to 12K a recovery either..
I wouldn't call going from losing 600K jobs per month to creating a couple hundred thousand per month a recovery either..
You know, if I were determined to not see any recovery.

I am.



Wanna watch?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

U_D, we have no doubt what-so-ever what you would be calling this if Bush were Pres:

A DEPRESSION!

"We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place."
Debbie Wasserman Schultz

If you ask me, I think what we're experiencing isn't in fact closer to a "growthless" recovery than to a jobless one. Because GDP started to grow more than a year and a half ago, but with the exception of just a couple of quarters, growth has not been noticeably above its trend rate of about 2-1/2 percent a year. I don't rejoice at the news that we added 216,000 jobs in March. About a hundred thousand of that 216,000 is needed every month just to keep up with the growth in the labor force. At this rate of job growth, it would take most of the decade to replace the eight 8-1/2 million jobs that were lost in the recession.
Christina Romer
Chairwoman of Obama's White House Council of Economic Advisors

We had reversed the recession, avoided a depression, got the economy movin' again, created two million private sector jobs over the last 17 months, but over the last six months we've had a run of bad luck, some things that we could not control.
Barack Hussein Obama
August 15, 2011

Sideshow Barry Barker 2012 Says: "It's NOT the economy, Stupid!" It's the Birthers! The Tea Party! SARAH PALIN!
Bush!
BAD LUCK!!
RACISM!!!
ATMs, KIOSKs & CORPORATE JETS!!!
TSUNAMIS, TORNADOS, & the ARAB SPRING!!!
EARTHQUAKES & HURRICANES!!!!!
EUROPE’s €PIIGS!!!!!!!!
OBSTRUCTION!!!
Americans have grown “Soft!”
MY LIMP STAFF
Come on WORK WITH ME HERE!
I killed a lot of people people!
http://pajamasmedia.com/tatler/files/2011/04/obama-wide-grin80.jpg
”’Shovel-ready’ was not as shovel-ready as we expected.” (Laughter)

But hey, this is all just fun and games to you because your job was "saved."

And, as you told us a year ago, things were turning around because you job was on the cutting edge of recovery and you were lousy with job orders, coming out of your ears...

 

[Wat_Tyler]

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way...ployment-report-shows-little-change-in-states

by BILL CHAPPELL


Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Credit: Alyson Hurt/ NPR
Unemployment rates across America didn't change much in September, says the Labor Department. But among the mostly small shifts that occurred, 25 states reported decreases in their unemployment rate. Of the remaining states, 14 saw a higher jobless rate, and 11 remained the same.

Looking at the national picture, Bloomberg reports, "Unemployment has exceeded 8 percent since February 2009, the longest stretch of such elevated joblessness since monthly records began in 1948."

North Dakota and Nevada had the lowest unemployment rates in the nation, at 3.5 and 4.3 percent, respectively, in the latest report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For NPR's Newscast unit, Danielle Karson reports:

Job losses went up in 25 states last month. While 24 states added more jobs. Nevada is still struggling with the highest jobless rate — 13.4 percent, followed by California with 12 percent. Florida posted the biggest job gains, with more than 23,000 new hires.

The gains and losses at the state level suggest that the labor market is hanging by a thread. Heidi Shierholtz is an economist with the Economic Policy Institute.

"They're consistent with what we're seeing at the national level, which is, in most states, we're not seeing the kind of job growth we need to start digging out of this thing," she says.

Sheirholtz says the country needs to add at least 100,000 jobs a month just to keep up with population growth and drive down the national unemployment rate, now at 9.1 percent.

Even NPR can't find anything to get on the bandwagon about.