Sfunny...
I got a raise last month.
Guess thats what happens when you lose half your business due to market conditions and your boss is afraid you'll lose the other half if you leave.
I work in the financial industry, sort of on the frontline of all this b.s. and while the media does play it's part in market manipulation, they are merely doing exactly what the talking heads expected and planned for them to do.
I also have a few friends who aren't drunk who have lost their jobs, one of them an insulator, just thought that comment was a little ignorant, especially to those who have been laid off and are not "drunks".
anyone in the stock market at all here?
I'm looking around now and thinking this is the greatest opportunity of my life to create wealth, at least as far as canadian public companies go (like talisman and suncor for that matter)
The fallout from american overspending and the "aaa" mortgage backed paper that got us all into this mess will be long lasting, but the fed and governments all over the world are taking larger and swifter steps to combat it then ever before in history.
This recession has affected the service industries so far, it'll be the retail, tourism and small businesses that will have to watch the bottom line now as the layoffs trickle their way down through the economy
Take it as a good sign that since lehman brothers, we haven't seen any other major financial institutions crack and falter YET.
this should have been much worse, and it seems that the unprecedented steps being taken by those that allowed this all to occur under their noses is working, so far....
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