this is just the unwinding after the bank failures. who thought it was gonna be pretty? next two quarters will be rough, and then we'll see the uptick, hopefully.Yeah, I know it would not be pretty, but actually living through this is strange. Most of us were to young to care about the S&L crisis or even the crash of '87, but most of us our now gainfully employed or looking be after college so the sense of panic may be magnified.
My employers seem to be optimistic about our future. I feel relatively safe, but if it comes down to cutting, the fact that I'm browsing the internet right now instead of working probably makes me considerably more expendable than I would like to believe.
Not having much of a problem with expenses either. I'm still going all out for Christmas. :american
I also think we should start a "2 Great 2 Depressing Blog" where we write up stuff about how to survive the coming disastrophe.
Shit is still tight though. Anytime we close to being able to save some money, something pops up and takes it away. We would be really fucked if something major broke in our house.
Accounting :bow
i'll be spending my precious swiss tourist money on your filthy american soil come christmas. but not even tourism can breathe life back into the weak, hollow shell of the US economy
I need to save some more
I've decided to get more aggressive about using Netflix
I need to save some more
I've decided to get more aggressive about using Netflix
do you have an exit strategy
if the auto industry dies we will likely go into a depression
I really wish they'd just let the auto industry die. As things are right now, there won't be any new car companies, and no industry can function and progress under those nearly monopolistic circumstances. So let GM and Ford die, something new, and probably better, will appear.
I really wish they'd just let the auto industry die. As things are right now, there won't be any new car companies, and no industry can function and progress under those nearly monopolistic circumstances. So let GM and Ford die, something new, and probably better, will appear.
There are a lot of jobs and hundreds of billions of dollars in revenue are tied to those industries. Letting them go would pretty much cause a significant amount of unemployment. That would definitely end any chance Detroit had at improving itself.
I'm not a fan of letting heavy industry collapse. I'd rather the government or stockholders try to drive out the current leadership and start anew. I'm sure there are some Board members or senior executives that have the right idea.
my dad works for Merrill Lynch
awful 4th quarter contraction, more malaise-but not drastic contraction- in the 1Q next year, then up and down for the next six months or so. This is all conditioned on the notion that government does the right thing and spends what is has to keep things from getting too much worse, and then after this is all blown over simply assfucks via taxes the segment of the population who got us into this mess in the first place.
Thank god no one here works in tech...heh... :-\...:'(
Lets just say im gonna put some money into savings right now
Lets just say im gonna put some money into savings right now
i believe this is the fifth sign of the apocalypsespoiler (click to show/hide)how many signs are there anyway?[close]
Since I started paying on my student loans I've only been able to save a couple hundred a month. And, well, "save" is a bit of a misnomer.
Lets just say im gonna put some money into savings right now
i believe this is the fifth sign of the apocalypsespoiler (click to show/hide)how many signs are there anyway?[close]
we can all sleep peacefully knowing that until you get some sex, there will always be at least one more
if the auto industry dies we will likely go into a depression
So? Sometimes you have to let shit burn in order to renew the soil. Let them crash, the nation will survive, and will probably rise up many times stronger. These temporary bail-outs and mergers certainly haven't helped to halt the momentum towards ruin, so let it go this time.
Lets just say im gonna put some money into savings right now
i believe this is the fifth sign of the apocalypsespoiler (click to show/hide)how many signs are there anyway?[close]
we can all sleep peacefully knowing that until you get some sex, there will always be at least one more
good show
Buy threads are going to becoming very sparse. :-\
The game release window is drying up, though. Finally.Buy threads are going to becoming very sparse. :-\
I will not let that happen! Sure, I had a dry spell recently but I had to pay for new glasses!
Buy threads are going to becoming very sparse. :-\
the midwest deserves it.
Buy threads are going to becoming very sparse. :-\
I will not let that happen! Sure, I had a dry spell recently but I had to pay for new glasses!
What the fuck is engineering distribution?
I'm just afraid that it will be so bad that Obama won't have enough money to do what he said he wanted to do. All to make it look like he was full of it and the repugs would have an advantage the next time around. It's all part of the masterpalinplan:-\
:hans1
The whole way that states manage their budgets is madness. They commit the most money to projects in boom times when costs are highest, and then cut them the most when costs plummet due to economic slowdown.