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[regicide]

WASHINGTON - Dangerous cracks in the nation's job market are deepening. Employers slashed jobs by the largest amount in five years and hundreds of thousands of people dropped out of the labor force � ominous signs that the country is falling toward a recession or has already toppled into one.



For the second straight month, nervous employers got rid of jobs nationwide. In February, they sliced payrolls by 63,000, even deeper than the 22,000 cut in January, the Labor Department reported Friday.

The grim snapshot of the country's employment climate underscored the heavy toll the housing and credit debacles are taking on companies, jobseekers and the economy as a whole.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080308/ap_on_bi_go_ec_fi/economy

[blaseblasphemener]

Well then, guess it's time to invade Iran.

[igotthisguitar]

[stevemcgarrett]

igotthisguitar conjured:

[mindmetoo]

Canada keeps adding jobs. Although last US slow down Canada rode it out mostly because of the favorable exchange rate. Unless Americans stop using oil and gas, we'll probably ride this one out too.

[nicholas_chiasson]

-Just in
WASHINGTON-USELESS LIBERAL ART MAJORS DESTORY NATION'S ECONOMY Joe Terranova is just another useless Liberal Art major. "I didn't have enough time in business school to play guitar, ahem, chords, and shag hippie chicks. I had to switch my major to Asian Primitive Cultures." Like many other graduates, Joe has not been able to find a real job. "I was going to work at the local, fair-traded coffee shop, but they had already hired a lesbian with 3 face piercings, how could I compete?" he asks. "I read the want-ads but everything asks you to have really strange qualifications like lifitng over 40 pounds repeatedly." Joe is thinking of going to grad-school. "My grades were, not, I guess the words to use is good, but at least I can defer my $90,00 in student loans that way."
Joe is lucky compared to some, Bob Greenberg is a medical school drop-out with $200,000 in debt. "I know, I know, I kept saying I was going to be a big rich Jewish doctor, and I ($%ed up. I kept thinking I'd be able to pay it off when I got into practice." Instead Bob got into selling Oxycotin and raiding the Univeristy Hospital's pharmacy. He was placed on academic probation and terminated for failing grades the next semester. "It was my nerves, I couldn't rest without at least 3 pills a night. I considered a anti-semitism charge against the Dean, but he was vacationing in Israel. The ACLU told me I didn't have a chance. I mean just because it is called Beth-Shalom-Solomon University Hospital doesn't mean they didn't expel me for being jewish."

[mindmetoo]

[mindmetoo]

Canada: The land inflation forgot

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080312.wrinflation13/BNStory/energy/home

[mistermasan]

but...the US unemployment numbers are pure BS. they simply stop counting someone as unemployed if that person has gone without work for too long!

the numbers are more about "feel good" than any real correlation to statement of fact.

[Funkdafied]

[mindmetoo]

[igotthisguitar]

[mikeyboy122]

Would you like fries with that?

[igotthisguitar]

[mindmetoo]

Canada inflation 1.8 percent in February

Tue Mar 18, 9:44 AM ET

OTTAWA (AFP) - Canadian consumer prices increased by 1.8 percent in February, the slowest inflation growth rate in six months and a marked slowdown from January's 2.2 percent, Statistics Canada said Tuesday.

Less upward pressure from gasoline prices, which were 17.1 percent higher in February compared to 20.9 percent in January, along with falling car prices (down 6.8 percent) accounted for most of this deceleration.

Fresh fruits and vegetables were also cheaper.

However, mortgage interest costs continued climbing for an eight consecutive month.

Core inflation, the benchmark used by the Bank of Canada in determining its key lending rate, meanwhile was 1.5 percent.

Analysts had predicted 1.9 percent inflation, and core inflation of 1.2 percent.