Sr. Pessimist

Jobless Claims: Is There More Trouble Ahead?

I'm an enlightened slave, so I qualify as a pundit as referenced above. Slaves are having more difficulty achieving enslavement among one of the any unfree labor institutions available to be enslaved under via the US Dollar. If the slaves are having difficulty achieving enslavement, then the slave drivers are having difficulty achieving a direction by which to drive the slaves. This is a result of relative incompetence with the rest of the world. By my estimation, despite the lifestyle of heavy work as performed by the American slaves, I don't think America is able to compete as an export economy. America has no ability beyond accepting free handouts by whatever means it can achieve them from. America is an international robber baron who couldn't get things done without extorting others into doing it for her by threatening means. She is the manifestation of the collective personalities of those who she serves. America is vicious and greedy because this is the criminal reality of the character of the American upper class, who alone own the identity of the country, as America is the conglomerate of her upper class, who own the sole authority to vote- capitally. Unenslaved human resources are a symptom of an American slavery system undecided as to its direction.

Am I Looney? Canadian Dollar and Maple Leaves

You're not loony unless you're in denial about reality. You seem to face the facts with sanity. You're not loony until you say that "the US Dollar was trading below the Canadian Dollar today, but I discredit that because I must be seeing things. I don't actually believe the US Dollar traded lower than the Canadian Dollar. I can't logically dispute it, as the facts are there, but it just didn't happen." That's insanity.

Also cutting rates doesn't do quite enough. The symptom is credit standards are tight. The problem is America's a class-based society, as hierarchical as the Hindu caste system of a past era in some ways. Because class means everything, connection to class implicitly stands for everything to the capital passage of the right to exercise power. 4.75% taxes the banks' ability to loan to each other. As only the working actually pay taxes, this is just a small decrease the working are indebted to the rich, since we're all unpleasantly unified by the US Dollar in our preset class placements under government enforcement.

Canada is less hierarchical than the US. The government isn't widely believed to stand for the few at the expense of the many others. People living in a country they have something to thank for often choose not to come here to this country just because the government is so corrupt. Conversely, George Bush said he never wanted to live in Canada to duck the US Vietnam War draft, but instead would rather join the Texas champagne unit in the national guard. This girl I talked to was studying to be a nurse. She's skilled and educated, and far more so than most girls here. High school graduation for Canadians is like 2nd year college for Americans. If you're smart, educated, and work, you don't want to leave Canada for America. If you're more like Bush (smart, educated, rich and don't work) then you'll pretend to serve in the military for 6 out of 8 years just to stay here.

Skilled labor is something the rest of the world is more able to provide than America. It's against my conscience to put the best of what I have to offer under this US Dollar. I know too much about the system, and I downright hate it. I'm very highly intelligent, highly educated, and highly skilled. I can pull a miracle. But I went absolutely insane- loony- trying to defeat my conscience and resist reality in delivering what I believed in to the US Dollar System. I just know who's going to end up with it, and who won't. I hate the country I live in, and I don't believe in American business or the US Dollar. She doesn't hate the country she lives in, and she's enjoying the Canadian Dollar.

In Euros We Trust

The EU regulates their economy. Their economy out in Europe is more healthy than the one here. If the US actually did something about monopolies and put Microsoft and Google in their places, then the US Dollar wouldn't be in trouble. The EU is hound-dogging Microsoft for pulling the same crap there they did here. They're not getting away with it in the face of Europe. So the European Bank has less problems to take care of. So they can keep their rates up, and maintain a stronger currency. The US, however, is so corrupt and anticompetitive that there is no way to earn money without being connected. This largely eliminates competitive intrusions, which makes that which the currency represents relatively incompetenet, say when compared to Europe. If you don't want your big businesses to actually have to compete, then don't complain about your currency going under.

Economists See GDP Rising Steadily; Inflation Peaking Soon, Then Falling

They're viewing a transition off of oil. Tech is more lucrative and productive.

The View From Friday's GDP Report

That's easy to believe. I think there is a lot of pressure for more "real" value in stuff people make and do, so all the opportunities to do what the corps aren't doing is opened up.

Not Much To Like About Today's GDP Report

Yah, but if a bunch of people don't have jobs, forget about money for a second.