Posts Tagged ‘Recession’

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Sep19

Holding him accountable or “attacking”

by Duane on September 19th, 2011 at 4:52 pm
Posted In: Politics
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Sep20

When the Money is Tight, Should We Stop Having Kids?

by Duane on September 20th, 2009 at 9:03 am
Posted In: Commentary, Economy, Our children

Teacher, pastor, author and father Voddie Baucham addresses this question in his post “Is An Economic Downturn A Good Reason to Stop Having Kids?”
“The news has not been encouraging lately. Between job losses, bankruptcies, and government takeovers, it is hard to be optimistic about the future from a financial standpoint. Even China appears [...]

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May07

Talk about unemployment

by Duane on May 7th, 2009 at 1:13 pm
Posted In: Economy, World

Here’s another slice of perspective for ya’.
May 5 (Bloomberg) — South Africa’s unemployment rate, the highest of 62 countries tracked by Bloomberg, rose in the first quarter as the economy probably entered a recession for the first time in 17 years.
The jobless rate increased to 23.5 percent from 21.9 percent in the previous three months, [...]

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Apr09

Prophetic? Or just history repeating itself?

by Duane on April 9th, 2009 at 5:11 pm
Posted In: Economy, Remember

1934
h/t: Michael Savage

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Jan27

It All Means What You Mean by the Word “Share”

by Duane on January 27th, 2009 at 6:57 pm
Posted In: Economy

From day one, all I have been hearing coming out of D.C. is how we Americans must learn to share the load during this recession. Here are the most recent major layoff announcements as of today:
Circuit City – 34,000 (entire workforce)
Caterpillar – 20,000
Pfizer – 19,000
Alcoa 13,500
Sprint Nextel – 8,000
Home Depot – 7,000
Intel – 5-6,000
Eaton – [...]

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Jan09

Crap Is Crap

by Duane on January 9th, 2009 at 2:47 am
Posted In: Economy, Headlines

I don’t care what you call it.
David Axelrod, Obama’s chief political adviser, along with campaign media adviser Jim Margolis, are encouraging lawmakers to use the word “recovery” instead of recession, and “investment” instead of “infrastructure.” Those recommendations came from focus-group research indicating that such framing would make the package more appealing to voters.
The Obama [...]

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