startuprules

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Taxpayers on the hook for $3 trillion in pensions(money.cnn.com)
13 points by startuprules 16y ago|7 comments
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California close to issuing IOUs - again(money.cnn.com)
1 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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Small Businesses are Not Hiring - Why Should They?(globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)
3 points by startuprules 16y ago|2 comments
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401(k) withdrawals hit 10-year high, says Fidelity(money.cnn.com)
2 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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by startuprules 16y ago
You also want to make sure you track down deadbeat clients (bad tax collection) and not get a long expensive office lease (offer retirement at age 50)
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At Small Firms, Job Cuts Run Deep(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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Greece Enters Death Spiral; Some Unemployment Rates of up to 70 Percent (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)
1 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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by startuprules 16y ago
Agreed. Also, there is the value perception. When players have to sort through all these MMO games to play, the paid ones stand out over the free ones. (for those players with limited time to play, and can afford to pay)
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by startuprules 16y ago
World of Warcraft dominates the MMORPG market. Why? they created the best damn product. Go free to get lots of broke users if you want to help scammers serve ads to those users.
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We’re in an economic depression...as bad as 1929(techcrunch.com)
2 points by startuprules 16y ago|1 comments
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Forget a Double-Dip, We're Still in One Long Big Dipper(huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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Economists See Increased Chance Of Double-Dip Recession (huffingtonpost.com)
1 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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by startuprules 16y ago
cynicalkane's biased; he programs for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. Of course he wants to persuade the lemmings to invest so that he still has a job. Logical? yes. Immoral? probably.
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by startuprules 16y ago
What purpose did your meta comment serve?
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by startuprules 16y ago
Here we are again, trying to convince ourselves that the boat is still sinking. I really don't understand the lower galley's fascination with drowning. For every item on the list you can point to trends that are positive for the exact same
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by startuprules 16y ago
Actually, the pink elephant in the room is the huge corporate debt - total domestic debts at 7.2 Trillions. "American companies are not in robust financial shape. Federal Reserve data show that their debts have been rising, not falling. By
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by startuprules 16y ago
This is why America's doomed.
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Are Corporations Sitting on Piles of Cash? (globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com)
3 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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VC funding pipeline runs low, fund raising down 50% from last quarter(venturebeat.com)
3 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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Government Gives $3 Billion aid to Jobless Homeowners(nytimes.com)
2 points by startuprules 16y ago|0 comments
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Federal workers earning 2X their private counterparts(usatoday.com)
28 points by startuprules 16y ago|34 comments
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by startuprules 16y ago
So no printing (let the market correct itself) or printing (let the government siphon off taxpayer money to rich, pretend it's for the good of people)
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by startuprules 16y ago
Actually, the commercial real estate market crash will dwarf both the student loan and the housing market crash. "Over the next five years, about $1.4 trillion in commercial real estate loans will reach the end of their terms and require ne
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by startuprules 16y ago
Please read the post. The poster was talking about the bailout. The average gas price after the bailout in LA is around 1.69. The average gas price right now in LA is 3.13
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by startuprules 16y ago
Yes, and we are going to have economic correction regardless of whether the government print or not. Printing just makes the correction even greater and the suffering more pronounced.
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by startuprules 16y ago
1.) You're (like most people on this board) are confusing technology gains with monetary phenomenons. 2.) We went from a mainly single-income family in the 70s to dual-income family today. Notice how most household today goes to hell if ev
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by startuprules 16y ago
I could be crazy :) I am sitting in a coffeeshop relaxing and spending money from my income-generating business, while I watch worker drones go to work with scowls on their face, awaiting to be blamed for failing profits at their company. O
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by startuprules 16y ago
"but as long we are still at the top, we remain at the top." Said the captain of the titanic.
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by startuprules 16y ago
"we still haven't gotten that worthless dollar and inflation" Oh yeah? Dollar is at 85 vs the yen, from 115 three years ago. Food prices doubled (food portions also got smaller), healthcare costs doubled, gas prices doubled, and so on. A
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by startuprules 16y ago
...Except it couldn't raise rates. Not with trillions of debt needing to be paid back by both government and corporations (hint: there's no way). So the fed will just print and print and print...until the dollar is worthless.

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