shorty Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Motorola whacks another 4,000 families Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elh Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 I'm having my worst year ever. Prior to this, laSSt year was my worst. I aSSume next year will be even worse that both. 584195[/snapback] You did have one week of glory in late February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 I'm having my worst year ever. Prior to this, laSSt year was my worst. I aSSume next year will be even worse that both. 584195[/snapback] You did have one week of glory in late February. 584200[/snapback] yep, them were the days! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted May 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Syracuse Home Prices Decline by 99.999% The city is selling 1,200 abandoned houses for one dollar each. They just wanna get 'em back on the tax rolls fer milkin'. <_> 584197[/snapback] Upstate NY is probably one of the most depressed areas in the US. A vast wasteland of shuttered, burned out factories, run down and abandoned houses, and blighted towns. Quebec, just to the north, has faced exactly the same problems of industry abandoning the area for decades, and while it's not a booming market for sure, thanks to the welfare state and more socialist society favored by the Quebecois and Canada in general, the people and the towns are doing far better. It helps that the province is energy independent and an exporter of power to the US grid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bungster Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 I'm having my worst year ever. Prior to this, laSSt year was my worst. I aSSume next year will be even worse that both. 584195[/snapback] Hate to eclipse your streak there Shorty... but if this was a downhill race...er I mean a race downhill... I'd be kicking your a$$... Thank goodness for my day job.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shorty Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 thanks to the welfare state and more socialist society favored by the Quebecois and Canada in general, the people and the towns are doing far better. can I get me some dat? please send some dat gov't $caSSh to Shorty, c/o The Stool Dinty Moore, Molson Golden, and beef jerky also accepted free housin' too? we po folk gotsa live somewheres Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmoy Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 thanks to the welfare state and more socialist society favored by the Quebecois and Canada in general, the people and the towns are doing far better. can I get me some dat? please send some dat gov't $caSSh to Shorty, c/o The Stool Dinty Moore, Molson Golden, and beef jerky also accepted free housin' too? we po folk gotsa live somewheres 584205[/snapback] How about some of them gold and silver maples too? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sarcastro Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 I'm having my worst year ever. Prior to this, laSSt year was my worst. I aSSume next year will be even worse that both. 584195[/snapback] Cheer up, Shorty; LEAPS for Jan '10 are out now, and they are DIRT CHEAP. (On the other hand, you throwing in the towel might be what we need for the market to finally hit the top! ) Unlike '03 and '04, where you only would have done well with them if the market had crashed, they are going to make some money if the market merely CORRECTS! (Case in point: http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=AAPL&m=2010-01). The only problem is the strike prices aren't really low enough yet. We'll probably have to wait another couple of months before the range gets larger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elh Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 The day that the Loonie is considered a hard currency has arrived. Oh god save us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmoy Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Dell laying off 8800. I heard a rumor that they might have finally released earnings too. Dell beat estimates by 8 cents. Declined to give a forecast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrStool Posted May 31, 2007 Author Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 The Qubecois pay through the nose for that welfare state. Taxes are astronomical, and wages are lower than in the US. The healthcare system is falling apart at the seams. In the US, my stepdaughter could make triple the salary she makes in Canada as a nuclear medicine technologist. But she could not get 9 months off with 90% salary during pregnancy, and 7 months after the child is born, which can be taken by either the mother or the father. Nor would she get the 4 weeks vacation, and the 35 hour work week. Which is more important? a hundred thousand bucks, or a life with your family. All depends on how you look at things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brisbane Bear Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 relax people, its over.The worst is behind us,thank god for that.That depression was a doozy. Get the party hats out. "I think the worst is behind us," said Richard Yamarone, economist at Argus Research. "While we did have a miserable quarter in the first three months of the year, it doesn't look like it will be repeated any time soon." http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070531/economy.html?.v=38 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brisbane Bear Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 I wonder how these large layoffs by Dell & co. effect people during a housing bust? Sleddog used to highlight the large layoffs during the boom and they had no impact. I suspect a much different outcome this time round. This is when you know if you are lucky or not. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whadda I Do Whadda I Do Posted May 31, 2007 Report Share Posted May 31, 2007 Careful in the metals....many charts breaking out but pulling up, up and away is another thing and ya know how Fridays go for spot prices. I wouldn't expect spot foretelling the future maybe the US$ or the Euro would on an intra day basis. I don't why I mention it since the markets seem to use it as a good thing but IBM let about 1500 people go and will do more later on, mostly in the US. Employment numbers tomorrow, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmoy Posted June 1, 2007 Report Share Posted June 1, 2007 I wonder how these large layoffs by Dell & co. effect people during a housing bust? Sleddog used to highlight the large layoffs during the boom and they had no impact. I suspect a much different outcome this time round. This is when you know if you are lucky or not. 584212[/snapback] Austin is experiencing a real estate boom right now so it might not have the impact that it would in California, Florida or Massachusetts. BTW, even though HP is firing on all cylinders, it too has a regular program of layoffs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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