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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 10:51 AM Original message |
Paul Krugman: A grim morning |
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redqueen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:01 AM Response to Original message |
1. Wow... he mentioned the real unemployment rate. |
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tandot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
2. And Arnold asked Paulson for a $7 Billion federal emergency loan |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:06 AM Response to Reply #2 |
3. earlier this week the state of Massachusetts could not get all the money they needed |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:10 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Cali has been in the hole for years now |
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tandot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:12 AM Response to Reply #3 |
8. they already passed the budget late and couldn't pay nursing homes |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:09 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. I knew California was next.... |
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leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:06 AM Response to Original message |
4. Oh, shit. |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:11 AM Response to Original message |
7. We're Not Going Over The Edge |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:14 AM Response to Reply #7 |
11. in the 70s we still made things and did not have anything close to this debt |
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HamdenRice (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:15 AM Response to Reply #7 |
13. The only thing that was better was the "wage price spiral" |
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ShortnFiery (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:18 AM Response to Reply #7 |
16. We're going DOWN. Now, without manufacturing base and much of this bail out OVERSEAS, |
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Skidmore (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:38 AM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Well, are you going to be one of those who go "Glub, glub" and |
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dixiegrrrrl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:37 PM Response to Reply #17 |
21. I saw a newspaper story about the farms, Skidmore. |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
22. no, it wasn't. wages were more or less keeping up. |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:12 AM Response to Original message |
9. But, but, but there is no crisis now |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:15 AM Original message |
The Dow is up 189 points |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
10. One reason why we shouldn't do the bailout |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:15 AM Response to Reply #10 |
12. I'd rather have the crash hold off and happen with smart people in charge |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:16 AM Response to Reply #10 |
14. Oddly you are advocating Hoover economics |
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bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:41 AM Response to Reply #14 |
18. Hoover had 4 years to do nothing. |
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Alcibiades (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 03:21 PM Response to Reply #14 |
19. Giving $700 billion to Wall Street and doing nothing |
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Imagevision (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 11:17 AM Response to Original message |
15. payrolls down 159,000 - Hewlett-Packard letting 24,000+ in January |
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MindMatter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Oct-03-08 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
20. This is the price we are paying for the "Reagan Revolution" |
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