Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
75,000 Applied for 2,000 McDonald’s Jobs
April 29th, 2011Via: NBC Chicago: A McJob looked mighty appealing to tens of thousands of people in the Chicago area. More than 75,000 job-seekers applied for 2,000 area positions with McDonald’s during the fast food king’s first-ever “National Hiring Day” on April 19. Applicants packed franchises in Illinois, Southern Wisconsin and Northwest Indiana. McDonald’s filled all 2,000 […]
Radiation Readings in Fukushima Reactor Rise to Highest Since Crisis Began
April 28th, 2011Update: Look At The URL On This One Reader TO mentioned this: www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-27/tokyo-water-radiation-falls-to-zero-for-first-time-since-crisis.html ??? —End Update— Via: Bloomberg: Radiation readings at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi station rose to the highest since an earthquake and tsunami knocked out cooling systems, impeding efforts to contain the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl. Two robots sent into the reactor No. […]
Wal-Mart: Our Shoppers Are ‘Running Out of Money’
April 28th, 2011Via: CNN: Wal-Mart’s core shoppers are running out of money much faster than a year ago due to rising gasoline prices, and the retail giant is worried, CEO Mike Duke said Wednesday. “We’re seeing core consumers under a lot of pressure,” Duke said at an event in New York. “There’s no doubt that rising fuel […]
Honeybees ‘Entomb’ Pesticide Tainted Pollen
April 28th, 2011Via: Spectre Footnotes: Honeybees are taking emergency measures to protect their hives from pesticides, in an extraordinary example of the natural world adapting swiftly to our depredations, according to a prominent bee expert. Scientists have found numerous examples of a new phenomenon – bees “entombing” or sealing up hive cells full of pollen to put […]
U.S. Dollar Slammed Lower Again
April 28th, 2011WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell or hold any financial instrument. Update 72.871 is the new short term low. — 72.904 is a new local low. It is getting down into into the critical support zone established in 2008. The great unknown, as you know, is below 70.792.
‘A Vast, Global Online Network of Homeless People’
April 27th, 2011Remember Hiro Protagonist’s living arrangement in Snowcrash? He lived in a shipping container, but he also had a fiber optic connection to the Metaverse. Homeless people with broadband: It’s not Sci-FI, it’s the new normal. Via: Parent Dish: Brianna Karp thought she had it all together. At 23, the Orange County, Calif., executive assistant was […]
Soaring Costs Force Some Renters To Choose Between Shelter And Food
April 27th, 2011Via: Huffington Post: Around 10 million American households — or one in every four families that rent their homes — could have to choose between paying rent, buying groceries or keeping current with bills, according to a report released Tuesday. The number of households spending more than 50 percent of their income on rent and […]
The End of QEII: It’s Time to Make the Donuts
April 26th, 2011Via: PIMCO: Just as Charles Ponzi needed donuts to turn back a suspicious crowd of investors, the Fed needs “donuts” in order to fill the bellies of the literally millions of investors worldwide who worry about the alarmingly large U.S. budget deficit and the impact that the U.S. debt dilemma could have on their Treasury […]
U.S. Dollar: Make or Break
April 26th, 2011WARNING: This is not a recommendation to buy, sell of hold any financial instrument. Update: Next Leg Down 73.562 —End Update— 73.833; trying for the next leg down. Resistance is just ahead at 73.735. Pare it down, lock it in, don’t get greedy, etc. This is a local support, though, and probably not strong. Related: […]
17% of Full-Time Employed Americans Raiding Retirement Funds Early
April 26th, 2011I thought that this was worth mentioning, despite the cringe inducing consumers this, consumers that nonsense. Via: Bankrate: Nearly one-fifth of full-time employed Americans have raided retirement accounts in the past year to cover emergencies, according to a national Bankrate survey. Despite increasing signs of a stabilizing U.S. economy, 19 percent of Americans — including […]
