drummerboy

Expect Oil to Approach $100/bbl Again By Summer

if the fed keeps printing money 24/7 and it becomes devalued they will lose their cool? guess what, there gonna lose their cool. gas is already over 2.25 in the chicago burbs, and the city is always 25 -40 cents more. and its only april. oil prices will rise, so the price at the pump can reflect that, but the real reason why they are going to go up more worldwide is for the TAXES for state local and fed coffers, or otherwise how is obama gonna balance the budget by 2012 as he has claimed to do.i hope as a professor, i can only hope that you understand that the bush administration was the biggest speculator of oil. after all, someone has to pay for the mess in Iraq. and that witch hunt.........window dressing for political constituents is all that is. otherwise they wouldn't have a job


On Mar 28 03:57 PM Dave Wrixon wrote:

> Don't worry, they will soon change their tune when they wake up to
> the fact they have been passed off a lot of worthless IOUs.
>
> It won't be long before empty Oil Tankers are being pirated for their
> cargo's of Gold Bullion.

Best Buy Induces Ridiculous Consumer Discretionary Rally

use put options or put spreads.

General Growth Properties and the Commercial Real Estate Time Bomb

doesn't anybody think that Geithner and Bernanke know this and wont let it come to pass on the cre.

$10 an Hour Pay Gap = Billions of Extra Dollars a Year

hey paulk, was born in pa, moved to the midwest at 10.was a teamster for28 yrs. now i have a carpentry biz.if i make 75 an hr. on any given job i would be lucky to make 18 of it after taxes,licences, biz insurance and other expenditures. i dare any of these people that responded negatively to my post to hang out a shingle and go into biz at this juncture of the economy. i have been in biz for over 9 yrs now. all they have to do is show up.as i read all of their posts.it tells me that these people are brainwashed in thinking that they are better than anyone working for the big 3, and pride, pride has nothing to do with building cars,pride for what grabbing an auto part and slapping it on the thing as it moves down the assembly line, thats false pride. you want pride, try building something from start to finish with tools and just your god given hands.i have worked with many-a-southerner, if someone wasn't standing over them making them put out, they wouldn't. the same way they treated slaves. they are all just pawns for foreign companies, and sen shelby is the slave owner. in the words of harreit tubman,"i could have saved more slaves,if only i could convince them that they were slaves"


On Dec 14 03:27 PM paulk8756 wrote:

> Drummer,
>
> Thanks for your thoughtful response.
>
> You're right about the general disparity between N/S wages, but it's
> not a hard and fast rule. I was recruited to work in the South (Nawlins)
> actually, from Washington, DC.
>
> I also remember working for a buck an hour growing up in PA. Imagine
> my delight when I got up to $2. I thought I was on top of the world.

>
>
> But times are different now. As we make more, prices rise throughout
> our local (wherever it is) economy. And we're competing with labor
> worldwide now, not just across our state or country.
>
> When I was young I was represented by unions, too. I didn't have
> a say in the matter. I recall they were good a taking my money,
> but they were never around when I asked them to help me.
>
> Today I know carpenters who make $50 an hour and are worth it, and
> others unemployed who'd be ready to work for $20. To tell you the
> truth, that seems fairer to me than having someone else decide what
> everyone's going to make beforehand.

$10 an Hour Pay Gap = Billions of Extra Dollars a Year

paul k, i am not employed by a car manufacturer, and i don't make 55 dollars an hour. if you or anyone else understood the point that i was making is that every body knows everything is cheaper to buy down south because wages are/ and have always been low. so why wouldn't these foreign companies look to the south to open shop there ,instead of coming into the north where everything cost more, and another thing that all the workers down there don't realize, is you guys are the chinese labor force for them. after building there cars.alot of them go back to their country to be sold, because their wages,and cost of living in japan are about 5 times higher than the u.s. just like the big 3 go there to open shop, for the cheap asian labor, only to be sold across the pond.


On Dec 14 09:48 AM paulk8756 wrote:

> Drummer,
>
> Speaking of clues, you might get a couple yourself if you'd take
> the time to actually read this post and the comments here and think
> about them some. No one's out to get you!
>
> America's not an island anymore, despite how we might like it to
> be. Millions of Americans have lost their jobs to worldwide competition
> already, and it's not going away barring another World War or some
> other similar catastrophe.
>
> The point is how we can best deal with the situation we now find
> ourselves in, and what we all need to do to confront this new reality.
> Sure, it would be great if we could all get paid $55 an hour for
> our labor, but I believe the reality is you're in the wrong line
> of work to do that presently.
>
> If you can live with $45 an hour now for what you do, it is my opinion
> you'd find alot more of your fellow Americans who'd support your
> efforts.
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$10 an Hour Pay Gap = Billions of Extra Dollars a Year

what your analysis fails to mention the reason why these foreign companies always seek to be in the southern states of this country is because labor, and the cost of living is so much cheaper.look at the history in this country, and the old adage, the south is gonna do it again. you may still be in the dark ages with the mentality that labor is cheap, or should be cheap,hence the reason why the civil war was fought. show me one of these foreign car companies that establish themselves in a geographical area that is anywhere north kentucky. you won't! these car companies that come to this country know more about history and demographics in order to get the most bang for their buck. remember,it's the south who have NEVER had respect for the labor force, chaingangs,civil war,slave labor. come one folks, he who blames labor for any type of ruination in this country is a fool.blame a working man for working.thats insane.whats even more insane is the notion that its a union's fault. wake up america. he who has never belonged, or has never gotten their finger nails dirty will never understand.time to keep the eye on the real ball is now. southern politicians who want to protect the notion that labor is only worth 20k a yr., lawyers and insurance companies as well. get a clue