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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (118945)	12/2/2011 9:08:11 AM
From: TideGlider	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224724

The US stock market is up because Euro and Canadian dollar are higher. Get a grip! Watch the dollar! If it is up, the market is down and the opposite.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (118945)	12/2/2011 10:31:19 AM
From: JakeStraw	3 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

The unemployment rate went down to 8.6% not because of U.S. job creation, but because 315,000 people left the labor force. These are people that have either given up looking for work or have gone back to school. The underemployment rate, which does include people that have given up looking for work and people who have part-time jobs but want full-time jobs, is holding at about 16%.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (118945)	12/2/2011 10:37:34 AM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224724

ken...Would you support hussein if he started another war with Iran just to boost his chances of re-election in 2012?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (118945)	12/2/2011 11:14:47 AM
From: longnshort	4 Recommendations Respond to of 224724

The measure some refer to as the "real" unemployment rate, which counts discouraged workers, also took a fall to 15.6 percent from 16.2 percent, its lowest level since March 2009. However, economists were treating the rate drops with skepticism. "When the unemployment rate declines, we want to see both employment and participation increase as discouraged workers return to the labor force. Today, we got the former, but not the latter, making the 0.4 percent drop look a bit suspect," Neil Dutta, US economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, told clients. "We would not be surprised to see the unemployment rate give back some of its decline in the coming month(s)."