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- "When the jobs market weakened in March and April, economists could tell a sensible story about why the weakening wasn’t as severe as it looked. . . .
" . . . But you can’t tell that story anymore. . . .
" . . . Over the last three months, the economy has added an average of only 96,000 jobs a month, down from a three-month average of 252,000 in February. The growth of the last three months is the weakest since August. It’s weaker than the three-month growth in most of 2011 and half of 2010. . . ."
http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/the-spring-slowdown-has-arrived/?ref=davidleonhardt
- Why am I nor inspired by having anything in our country compared, even favorably, to Saudi Arabia - as in "the United States is the Saudi Arabia of food" ?
Epic failure to understand the workings of our economy - but it sounds like a great media marketing meme.
- And of course, Banks are being encouraged to invest in Government debt, rather than productive enterprise.
http://www.cnbc.com/id/47633576
"Time Bomb? Banks Pressured to Buy Government Debt"
"US and European regulators are essentially forcing banks to buy up their own government's debt—a move that could end up making the debt crisis even worse, a Citigroup analysis says.
"Regulators are allowing banks to escape counting their country's debt against capital requirements and loosening other rules to create a steady market for government bonds, the study says.
- " . . . Then too, there seems to be something more fundamental afoot when a man like bond vigilante Bill Gross makes a call to dump, instead of hold, U.S. debt. Does the writer Gross call the investor Gross "a declinist"? Bill Gross doesn't dump U.S. bonds to make a fashion statement. So what's going on here - I'd love the writer Gross to weigh in on this argument, but he doesn't. . . ."
This is from one of Mr. Gross's reviewers at Amazon. Maybe you'll ask him about that.
As for today's statistics, I'm sure the context, if any, that you supply will be un-comparable to anyone else's.
- " . . . Then too, there seems to be something more fundamental afoot when a man like bond vigilante Bill Gross makes a call to dump, instead of hold, U.S. debt. Does the writer Gross call the investor Gross "a declinist"? Bill Gross doesn't dump U.S. bonds to make a fashion statement. So what's going on here - I'd love the writer Gross to weigh in on this argument, but he doesn't. . . ."
This is from one of Mr. Gross's reviewers at Amazon. Maybe you'll ask him about that.
As for today's statistics, I'm sure the context, if any, that you supply will be un-comparable to anyone else's.
- U.S. Filings for Unemployment Aid at Five-Week High
Read more: http://business.time.com/2012/05/31/us-filings-for-unemployment-aid-at-five-week-high/#ixzz1wWTvIpQH
- I bet President Obama would put a stop to this if he knew about it.
Federal Officials Shut Down 26 Bus Operators
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/nyregion/federal-officials-shut-down-26-bus-operators.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper
- @Caitlin from Jersey City:
? "Silence of the Lambs" ?
- From the Twitter Feed: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXKMH2yJA_4
- "Teach the children" - Where? - In the same failing schools that the mayor regularly finds to be unable to teach children adequately?
I would suggest that the Mayor authorize the NYPD be authorized to "stop, frisk, and instruct" any person appearing to have an unhealthy "BMI".
During the "interaction" the "BMI suspect" could be given verbal instructions and literature on healthy eating habits and the corrosive effect that poor nutrition has on the public's financial investment in public health care.
I suggest that Professor Nestle be made an NYPD Deputy Commissioner for this program.
I would suggest it if I didn't think that this corrupt megalomaniac would probably do it.
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