[ChicknLittle]

I was thinking the same thing... ( I only trust websites with links to prisonplanet.com for my financial information now : )

In the wake of bad news about GM i have noticed a story in print news that happen to point out the downside of smaller vehicles ("big vehicles are safer") and today read this gem in my local paper about how hybrid technology makes cars too quiet... DANGEROUSLY QUIET ...

http://www.showmenews.com/2006/Feb/20060208News034.asp

[DigitalCubano]

Actually, that 2nd article does make some very good points about the need to change the valuation methodologies and metrics we use to gauge the health of the economy (e.g. account balances). We are obviously in transition from an industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy, so it stands to reason that valuation techniques should capture these new forms of goods and services to get a more accurate read on economic performance:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'T')he numbers don't catch Intel's exhaustive training program either. To get its new plants running quickly, the chipmaker brings 800 or 900 employees from the new fab to spend a minimum of six months in Hillsboro, Ore., where Intel develops new production processes. By the time they return home, these people will have picked up not just the details of the process but also tribal knowledge -- the unwritten lore of how Intel works. With that info in their heads, they're equipped to get the new factory up and running at high volume within a quarter, rather than taking a year or more. In economics speak, this is a classic transfer of human capital. So why isn't it called an export?

[aldente]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ChicknLittle', ' ')and today read this gem in my local paper about how hybrid technology makes cars too quiet... DANGEROUSLY QUIET

[Free]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('albente', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ChicknLittle', ' ')and today read this gem in my local paper about how hybrid technology makes cars too quiet... DANGEROUSLY QUIET

[shakespear1]

The fundamental question is "Where is the job growth if things are so good? In what sectors and job types?"

From I am hearing it is the low paying jobs !!! That is not a bright future or happy prospect for a graduate.

[Leanan]

Awhile back, CNN reported that 28% of new jobs in the U.S. are going to immigrants. Legal and otherwise. I think that tells you something about how much those jobs are paying.

[MarkL]

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[peaker_2005]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('MarkL', 'H')ere's another amazing story that was posted on a "news service" yesterday:

The Rockefeller File *The Great Energy Swindle*

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'S')yndicated columnist Paul Scott informs us: "Once [the] concept of international policy control over food is accepted by UN members, Kissinger then plans to move to establish this same concept over oil and eventually all energy in the world.-"
...
Contrary to the incantations of the doomsayers, America is not running out of oil. As Don Oakley of the Copley News Service notes: " Forevery one of the billions upon billions of barrels of petroleum the United States has consumed since Colonel Drake drilled the first well in 1859, at least another barrel remains in the ground."
...
That last point is so crucial to understanding the mess we are in that we want to repeat it. Fuelish, oil-consuming Americans didn’t cause the energy crisis. The Mideast War didn’t cause it. Our growing prosperity didn’t cause it. Political meddling (by some of the brightest -planners around, we might add) did.
...
Although it seems to have been around forever, the environmental movement appeared on the national scene almost overnight. Five years ago, not one person in a thousand had even heard the word ecology. But suddenly all of - us were supposed to panic at the thought of the slimy hand of pollution suffocating us as we sleep.

The major bankrollers of this -spontaneous- movement were the numerous Rockefeller foundations, the Rockefeller-controlled Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller controlled Carnegie Foundation and the Rockefeller interlocked Mellon (Gulf Oil) foundations. Among the most vigorous public advocates were Roberto Anderson of Atlantic Richfield (and the CFR) and Henry Ford II of the Ford Motor Company (and the CFR).

[Falconoffury]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'W')e are obviously in transition from an industrial economy to a knowledge-based economy, so it stands to reason that valuation techniques should capture these new forms of goods and services to get a more accurate read on economic performance:

[CARVER]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('DigitalCubano', 'A')ctually, that 2nd article does make some very good points about the need to change the valuation methodologies and metrics we use to gauge the health of the economy