Entries Tagged as 'unemployment'

“The equivalent of selling apples during the Great Depression”

November 10th, 2009 32 Comments

Stacy Summary:   Despite all the Depression like numbers across all data relating to the Average Joe, it’s been very difficult to find any evidence in the news for Depression-like existence for the bottom 99%.  I guess we’re now starting to see some of that make it into the news . . .

The unemployed in America [...]

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Headlines, Headlines, Headlines – 30 April 2009

April 30th, 2009 22 Comments

Stacy Summary:  Great Bloomberg headline in that it pretty much sums up the neo-liberal reality – catastrophe for workers is catastrophe averted for bankers & corporations.   The problem with operating a giant global ponzi scheme with this paradox, however, is that the ponzis at the bottom of the pyramid need to earn something eventually [...]

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