800 Microsoft Layoffs, Including Don Dodge

Microsoft has announced 800 more layoffs, on top of the layoffs already announced earlier this year. Among those layed off is Don Dodge, Microsoft's Director of Business Development for the Emerging Business Team. Don Dodge is publicly presenting a very positive attitude...

Hey let’s help save the World, whilst drinking coffee.

No I am not talking about climate change, but an acceptable New World Order. Well it’s about the money that makes this tired old world go around yes the dirty ragged dollars. Whilst the land of the free has been...

The U.S. recession is not over yet

In recent months the U.S. stock market has recovered much of the earlier losses from the financial crisis. What is more, GDP growth has been observed for the first time in a year. According to a survey this month...

USA politics makes you, your own worst enemy! Reality Check

There is a World outside your countries borders and since the last world War USA had that world mostly on a lead, through your money power and drive. However your main Achilles heel is corruption and greed that...

Hey Brother, Can You Spare $4.00 for a Gallon of Gas?

I put 10 gallons of gas in my pickup the other day. It cost me about $2.50 more than it did the week before.Not a large amount. But take that amount times the nearly 200 million drivers in the United States, and...

The end of UK middle class benefits in the UK?

News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits. A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the <?xml:namespace...

The end of UK middle class benefits in the UK?

News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits. A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the UK spends some £31bn...

Women's Wages Outpaced Men's During Recession (US)

"The wages of the typical woman who had a job during the worst recession in decades rose faster than those of the typical man, new data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show. Over the past two years, the wages...

Stimulus Job Losses......What?

In an apparent contradiction of the Obama administration prediction's, job losses are continuing their long downhill slide. Earlier this year, the administration released numbers showing projected job gains, by...

Obama in New York City: Populist spleen

Obama vented his anger on the "deceptive practices"  and predatory behavior of "the few"  as he attended fundraiser events for the DNC in New York City last evening: "Days after his senior aides...

Doom and gloom economy versus it’s really a boom economy!

Look I am not an economist but just someone that observes the market place and knows a bit about charts and things.. Many years ago when I wore my accountant’s hat I wrote a software program to keep control...

USA - Hummer leaves for China from USA - GM announces deal.

Another one of brands that was the pride of Americans is going to go from American hands. Hummer, once known as the king of SUVs is being sold by GM to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery as per an...

USA - Dell to close their desktop plant in North Carolina by 2010

As a part of their new corporate strategy and expected to cut the computer giants cost by $4 billions, PC giant Dell is closing down its desktop assembly plant in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.When started in...

Carbon emissions will fall 3% due to recession, say world energy

Well the recession has its good points...  "Man-made greenhouse gas emissions will drop 3% in 2009 largely because of the worldwide financial crisis, the International Energy Agency (IEA) said today....

Economy @ Pharaoh

It is the battle between the forces of inflation, envisioned by the feds and the forces of deflation that rein in the MarketBattles normally do have clear winners. One side is master of the field and the other...

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