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In my last post on jobs, I said I was going to talk about something in the next post; this is that post. Let’s face this fact; there are a lot of jobs that have been eliminated that just aren’t coming back. Nope, nada; it ain’t happening. Let’s face another fact; manufacturing in America is [...]
In April I wrote a post talking about continuing job losses. Well, it seems that trend is continuing, as it was just announced last week that 44 states had job losses in April, with California losing the most jobs. How bad was it? California lost 63,700 positions, followed by Texas with 39,500 jobs, Michigan with [...]
This was an interesting week as it pertained to stories about casinos. Each story had a different take on the topic; one was good, the other not so good. First we have the grand opening of the Sands Casino Resort Bethlehem, a $743 million dollar resort built where the old Bethlehem Steel Company used to [...]
Two weeks ago, I wrote a post basically questioning this idea that consumer confidence was up. It just didn’t seem like things were on the upswing, and the numbers they were showing that were supposed to be saying things were moving up were escaping my mind. Therefore, I wasn’t surprised when yesterday the Federal Reserve [...]
Well, that headline isn’t quite accurate, but they certainly voted themselves into some tough times ahead. Californians have “voted” themselves into massive cuts in services and the potential release of a bunch of criminals who probably need to sit in jail a little bit longer. I put “voted” in quotation marks because, unlike November’s election [...]
Today the Senate passed a new credit card bill that will stop credit issuers from immediately jacking up interest rates for one missed payment. It passed 90-5, and now heads to the House, which will probably debate it for a little bit, then agree and make it law. Why am I so blase about it? [...]
One of the best things about blogging is that people sometimes contact you, if they think you’re nice enough or important enough, and want to send you free stuff. Of course, it’s also with a hope that you’ll review it, and I’m one of those folks who will usually get around to doing it at [...]
