Trucker Strike 2008
Life of a Trucker
A day in the life of a trucker
Thank you for your service and for your courage.
Previously here:
Truckers Strike 2008: Additional
Truckers Strike 2008: A Search Record Set
Is The April 1, 2008 Truckers Strike Real?
Truckers Strike: April 1, 2008
April 1: Truckers Strike?
Fortune magazine — no collection of marginalized fraidy-cat panic-mongers — has two headlines so important that I’m reproducing them as screensnaps here.
First one:
Read the article: Chaos on Wall Street
Second:
Read the article: On the brink of disaster
Guess what? When Fortune says it’s dire — it’s already too damned late.
Supplemental:
Wall Street’s grim prophet
I won’t be doing any lame posts along those lines.
Instead, click the below link to see the Candid Camera-like toilet video from Japan.
Click to see funny video!
As Jobs Vanish and Prices Rise, Food Stamp Use Nears Record
Driven by a painful mix of layoffs and rising food and fuel prices, the number of Americans receiving food stamps is projected to reach 28 million in the coming year, the highest level since the aid program began in the 1960s.
The number of recipients, who [...]
Bear market rallies only delay day of reckoning
Bernard Connolly at Banque AIG, who foresaw this crisis with uncanny accuracy, believes central banks will resort to full-throttle reflation, setting off a fresh boom in shares and gold. But this will occur only after the economic slump has spread to Europe and beyond.
The authorities will wait [...]
Buyers’ Revenge: Trash the House After Foreclosure
The stucco subdivisions of Las Vegas are caught up in the nation’s foreclosure crisis. These days, bankers and mortgage companies often find that by the time they get the keys back, embittered homeowners have stripped out appliances, punched holes in walls, dumped paint on carpets and, as a parting [...]
Update: Lots of links added from a Comment here to the end of the original post. I’ve also changed the timestamp to pop this to the top of the blog for a while.
Prior posts in this blog:
Truckers Strike 2008: A Search Record Set
Is The April 1, 2008 Truckers Strike Real?
Truckers Strike: April 1, 2008
April [...]
Drudge sure knows how to drive home a point:
Civilians handle minor duties for strapped police
In my neighborhood, minor things can equal death. So good luck with that strategy for failure.
Brace for $1 Trillion Writedown of ‘Yertle the Turtle’ Debt
March 31 (Bloomberg) — Be it ever so devalued, $1 trillion is a lot of dough.
That’s roughly on a par with the Russian economy. More than double the market value of Exxon Mobil Corp. About nine times the combined wealth of Warren Buffett and Bill [...]
If this isn’t outright fascism, what is? Must our leaders grow moustaches in the style of Hitler and prance around with swastikas on their forearms?
Fed eyes Nordic-style nationalisation of US banks
The US Federal Reserve is examining the Nordic bank nationalisations of the 1990s as a possible interim solution to the US financial crisis.
The Fed [...]
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