Biggest Loss in jobs in more than five years
Labor Department reported today that the economy experienced the biggest drop in jobs in more than five years.
There was a net loss of 159,000 jobs in September, the ninth straight month the U.S. economy has lost jobs. The August job loss was revised to 73,000 jobs, taking year-to-date job losses to 760,000.
The real bad news is that by the Labor Department's own admission, their reporting model performs poorly at economic "turning points", so, a doubling of current job losses may be very possible after the data is revised.
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At the start of this debacle I thought the bankers had found a cheap and dirty way to get into the real estate business. That is: take the extra cash from the unwashed, leave them with debt and rent them the house they thought they were buying. As it turns out, either the American financial guru’s were asleep in Econ101, or the science of Economics is crap. I never could figure out the “consumer based economy,” apparently, neither have the financial folks. J.P. Morgan once quipped; “I can hire half the workers to kill the other half.” To his credit he never tried. Lenin and Trotsky one-upped Morgan by proving that they could talk workers into killing capitalists for free. I don’t know how this will turn out, but I am not sure that poverty is as bad as advertised.
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Tough times in real estate may change the San Diego conventional wisdom that you can never lose in real estate.
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