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That is Pepper, my cocker waiting for the mailman.
Well, as far as the latimes stuff is concerned it appears they are talking about new applicants for unemployment. As far as people dropping off due to shortening of time allowed, the BLS published the unemployment number in a variety of ways. The on…
Reply to @Investor: Actually, it can be a problem because young people often don't pay attention. Then years later when they do start assessing their status, information is hard to get. In my case, I worked for U. Utah for a few years under a TIAA-C…
Reply to @MaxBialystock: "Glad that bill got pulled. Big Brother is already BIG enuff. "
Yea, but as I watch governors and mayors sell off the publicly owned infrastructure, I don't hold out much hope for the future of the Internet or anything else.
Reply to @Derf: Yea, but lately I think "common sense" is overrated. Everyone claims to possess "common sense". Unfortunately, all I can agree with is the possessed part.
People's brains work differently. This may be self-selected to a certain extent. When I was in school my interests were in science and math. Going to school was one of my "talents" so I could always make an A on history, language, etc. tests but eve…
Reply to @hank: The payroll cut (which I strongly oppose) is just a way around the impasse on stimulus funding. I think the WH would like to infuse money at the bottom-most where they think it will be spent and not saved. There is no way to get this…
David and all, I ran into a problem I didn't have before. I have the accessibility option in IE8 set to ignore font sizes on webpages. I keep the text size on the value "Larger". With the new pages, if I leave the settings at these values, the text …
Hank,
I understand your concern and I hope the crowd doesn't contain any bad apples or people with their own bad agenda. But I do understand why they have shifted (I think). The response from a lot the Wall Street and associated tycoons has been r…
Well, bee, I wasn't aware that BoA had a division of behavior modification. (Just kidding.)
BoA has introduced a lot of new fees, minimums and the like in the last year or so. But, just like the toasters, won't more bank eventually gravitate and on…
Reply to @Investor: Investor, I agree but lack sufficient expertise to chose by dead poets. Here is the way I think - Enough already, I have been waiting most of my life for the big boom in innovation with it's fuel for prosperity for the average ma…
4) I agree,
5) This retired boomer figures that, for a working stiff, "as goes your country, goes you" so bumpy it will be. I warned the hubby yesterday that his "vast wealth" was fixing to take a hit. I'm quite conservatively invested but still hav…
Reply to @msf: It turns out that reading the analysis (full report) linked at Business Insider is very helpful in understanding a comparison of the numbers and the full paragraphs are present.
http://www.csbaonline.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/201…
Reply to @msf: The Obama part of the graph does show too high spending but it is slightly less than what was being spent when he took office. The gray areas make one fail to notice this until one looks closely at the colors on the line to see the ac…
Investor,
What browser do you use? I use IE8 and the mouse-over gives a window that resizes to wrap the remaining name within the window without scrollbars. Scrollbars appear for the mouse-click pop-up but the fund name in this box also word wraps w…
Maurice,
I remember when this was all the political attack rage. If I remember right the Democrats never had any such proposal. This was just one testimony among others in a committee investigation of the various ideas people had about how to better…
The day Paulson and Bernake hit the streets with news that the sky was falling, I knew nothing about the best steps but was able to predict the future. I told my husband and friends - Just watch, the road not taken will be proved correct no matter w…
The debt ceiling is an artificial construct that has never done what it was intended to do. Why keep something that is useless and potentially toxic? Does no one have any sense? If you put up a baby fence that not only didn't keep the baby secure bu…
Please excuse these observations/perceptions in an area outside my expertise. I think it is better to look at what really happens than to fight over what economic theories say should happen. Laffer - I don't see the curve as saying what you describe…
Yea, catch22. I guess people will need to open the posts; no more (eom, etc.)
David Snowball, Thank for the discussion area!! I would really have missed clicking in and following everyone's links and comments. The software does seem clean compared …
