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Job losses slow and unemployment takes first dip in 15 months!!!

Started by ericho75
about 17 years ago
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WOHOOO!!! http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Job-losses-slow-to-247000-apf-3455968974.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=main&asset=&ccode= "WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. employers throttled back on layoffs in July, cutting just 247,000 jobs, the fewest in a year, and the unemployment rate dipped to 9.4 percent, its first decline in 15 months." Mr. Bear, 'But wait!!! Housing prices in NYC is still going to crash because.........doh!'
Response by falcogold1
about 17 years ago
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Member since: Sep 2008

Most unemployed persons in the US in 61 years....good news???

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Response by drdrd
about 17 years ago
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Member since: Apr 2007

The glass is still half empty, as far as I'm concerned.

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Response by Fluter
about 17 years ago
Posts: 372
Member since: Apr 2009

Sorry, I'm a bear. A polar bear. A lot of that decrease reflects people who have given up looking for a job, I am told.

In my job I'm not supposed to be a bear but I am a truth teller by nature, so there you go.

{Manhattan real estate agent.}

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