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Originally posted by bismarcksea
If you doubt this, look at what happened to Dan Rather.
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April Fiscal Year to Date***
2009*** 2008 %Change 2009*** 2008 %Change
Loaded Inbound 199,051 280,553 -29.1% 1,500,715 1,947,336 -22.9%
Loaded Outbound 112,976 163,577 -30.9% 748,321 1,026,859 -27.1%
Empties 96,678 112,455 -14.0% 833,731 963,079 -13.4%
TOTAL (T.E.U.) 408,705 556,585 -26.6% 3,082,767 3,937,274 -21.7%
*TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units or 20-foot-long cargo container
**Preliminary estimate
The size of cargo containers range from 20 feet long to more than 50 feet long.
The international measure is the smallest box, the 20-footer or 20-foot-equivalent unit (TEU).
*** Fiscal Year = Oct. 1 through Sep. 30.
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GM, Chrysler to drop 1,900 dealers by end of 2010
NEW YORK (AP) — A decision by troubled automaker General Motors to drop 20 percent of its dealers is due in part to an oversized network that created stiff internal competition and gave shoppers too much leverage to talk down sticker prices, hurting chances for future sales.
GM's announcement Friday is more bad economic news for dealers, communities and businesses still reeling from Chrysler's similar nationwide dealer cuts a day earlier. Both automakers are scrambling to reorganize and stay alive in a severe recession that has devastated sales of cars and trucks.
Several hundred of the roughly 1,100 GM dealers already knew they were headed for closure, but most of them learned for the first time Friday. The dealerships will be eliminated when their contracts end late next year
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U.S. Economy: Jobless Claims Rise Amid Auto Closings (Update1)
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By Bob Willis and Shobhana Chandra
May 14 (Bloomberg) -- More Americans than forecast filed unemployment-insurance claims last week because of the Chrysler LLC bankruptcy that is likely to reverberate through the economy for months.
Initial jobless claims rose by 32,000 to 637,000 in the week ended May 9, the Labor Department said today in Washington. A good part of the jump was from states reporting an increase in auto-related claims, a Labor official said without providing a more precise estimate. The department also said that wholesale prices rose in April, spurred by a gain in food costs.
The bankruptcy filing by Chrysler, and the potential for a similar step by General Motors Corp., is likely to cause further job losses as suppliers and communities are affected. The industry’s woes threaten to delay the economy’s recovery from the deepest recession in half a century and send the unemployment rate up from what’s already a 25-year high.
“This is definitely the first area where you’ll see the fallout from
Originally posted by RolandBrichter
They all know what's coming....deep down inside, they know...they're just doing what they do best...manipulating as many as they can, making as much $$$ as they can before the party is over...we see it plainly, and we should prepare....the time is so short and none of this nonsense will matter at all by the Fall
edit for an apology.....sometimes the dark moods get the best of me
[edit on 18-5-2009 by RolandBrichter]
Originally posted by SpacePunk
reply to post by whiteraven
It's time that the consumer spends on only what is necessary.
Federico García Lorca (Spanish pronunciation: [feðeˈɾiko gaɾˈθi.a ˈloɾka]) (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director. Lorca reached universal fame thanks to his masterpieces as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27 which would drive Spain to its so called Cultural Silver Era. He was murdered[1] by persons likely affiliated with the Nationalist cause at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War.[2] A Spanish judge has opened an investigation of Garcia Lorca's death, as one of the many executed and disappeared, as a crime against humanity during the Spanish Civil War.[3]
[/exAssociations made at Granada's Arts Club placed him in good stead when he moved in 1919 to the famous Residencia de estudiantes in Madrid, where he would befriend Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, among many others who were or would become influential artists in Spain. In Madrid he met Gregorio Martínez Sierra, the Director of Madrid's Teatro Eslava, at whose invitation he wrote and staged his first play, El maleficio de la mariposa, in 1919-20. There was huge controversy in the late 1910's when many considered him homosexual, thus his plays being largely based around women to mask his sexuality. A verse play dramatising the impossible love between a cockroach and a butterfly, with a supporting cast of other insects; it was laughed off stage by an unappreciative public after only four performances and influenced García Lorca's attitude to the theatre-going public for the rest of his career. He would later claim that 1927's Mariana Pineda was his first play]
Wow that is one very interesting Character....i of course luv Dali....and this guy was one of the other guys from Spain.
Thanks....his observations would be and are unique.
Originally posted by whiteraven
It was the smell of cow manure but ever since then I equate the smell of BS with the smell of money.
Originally posted by RolandBrichter
They all know what's coming....deep down inside, they know...they're just doing what they do best...manipulating as many as they can, making as much $$$ as they can before the party is over...we see it plainly, and we should prepare....the time is so short and none of this nonsense will matter at all by the Fall
edit for an apology.....sometimes the dark moods get the best of me
[edit on 18-5-2009 by RolandBrichter]
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Kudlow then says “me too” to which Ogre obliges.
The lesson to be learned? Just because you wear your Fruit of the Looms on your ears it does not make you smart, nor does it mean there is a bull market in the offing.
So with that lesson in mind, please, while reading my posts remember to wear clean undershorts and while watching CNBS don’t believe that every streak is a winning one.
Today’s paltry volume tells me that this was just what I said it was and now that the shorts have stolen the bull’s wives and girlfriends, mistresses and hookers, and flew off to St. Kitts or St. Johns to party the rest of this week that there will be little if any liquidity to help the bulls cause. The market today traded on VERY thin volume and it means to me that we will see volatility start to increase heading into the weekend, especially if I am correct on my suspicions about GM, bond insurers, munis and a purple dinosaur named “Barney” from Massachusetts.
Better get that passed Barney or your legacy will be the collapse of the municipal bond system, pension funds worldwide and of course the bankruptcy of several states including your own. Time to suck it up, uh, er, bad choice of words, and get-ir-dun!
After we all shower off from that sentence, let’s look at the DJIA today: