U.S. Unemployment by the Numbers: How Bad Is It Hurting?

" Reports More people are unemployed in America than live in Ohio or go to church in Texas. Unemployment statistics don’t usually leap off the page, but the latest report from the Department of Labor offers some astounding figures. More than 651,000 jobs were cut in...

Trend Alert: U.S. Has Entered “The Greatest Depression”

" Paul Joseph Watson Tuesday, March 3, 2009 Trends research analyst Gerald Celente, who has risen in prominence on the back of his deadly accurate economic predictions, says that the collapse of financial markets heralds the start of “The Greatest Depression”. In his...

Fresh evidence points to paralysis of global economy

"Data from US and Japan triggered fears that the downturn has turned into the worst slump since the 1930s! Larry Elliott, economics editor guardian.co.uk The sharpest contraction in US growth for more than a quarter of a century, a collapse in Japanese factory output and an...

Pepsi and IBM are Now More Creditworthy than the U.S. Government

" Agora Financial’s Rude Awakening notes that the U.S. Government is now considered less credit-worthy than Pepsi or IBM by the credit default swap market: "As the nearby chart indicates, the price of insuring Treasury debt against default now costs more than the price of...

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