- first time unemployment claims surge
- President Obama on track to have more golf outings than Tiger
- "the world is exploding all over the place" -- SecDef Hagel
- plans to "cut" the military appear to be on track
- "boots on ground" back in Iraq -- Special Forces and US Marines on the mountain
- price of WTI down but holding its own
- Saudi to flood the market with oil?
- Italy back in recession
- early reports that Germany may swing into recession with -0.2% growth; how are those sanctions working out?
- huge IPs being reported in the Bakken
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Unemployment Claims
- last week's 289,000 revised upward to 290,00
- consensus for this week: 289,000
- actual: surged to 311,000
- mainstream media analysis: everything on track; economy rose; jobless claims continue to close to pre-recession levels;
- four-week average, a less volatile measure, only jumped 2,000, to 295,750
- and Mr Obama is still on vacation
Cisco will cut 6,000 jobs (8% of workforce).
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Global Economy
first of all, sanctions never work
Italy is in recession
Germany at risk of pulling all of Europe back into recession -- Business Insider
Germany close to recession as ECB admits recovery is weak -- The (London) Telegraph
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Read My Lips
Four score and seven years ago ... : Abraham Lincoln
No new taxes: George Bush I
Brownie, you're doing a heckuva job: George Bush II
I will not send combat troops back into Iraq; that chapter is over: Baraq
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Old Code-Words
Special Forces, US Marines: military advisers
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Old Code-Words
Small regional wars where US military advisers are sent: "projects" -- Baraq Obama as quoted by NBC News.
Back in Air War College, I was introduced to "small regional conflicts (SRC)" and "military operations other than war (MOOTW)" but never "projects."
Back in Air War College, I was introduced to "small regional conflicts (SRC)" and "military operations other than war (MOOTW)" but never "projects."
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US Golfers Ranking: Update
Tiger Woods drops out of top 5
President Baraq O'Bama moves into top 20
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Baraq O'Bama To Interrupt Martha Vineyard Vacation
There are reports that President O'Bama will return to Wasshington, DC, this weeken. No one knows why. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure this out: Bill Clinton knows. From a very, very unreliable source. Don't quote me on this.
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And Through All of This, For Some, There's A Kind of A Hush All Over the World
Good to see, you're back, Bruce. Thought that maybe you'd fallen into that big hole in Arizona.
ReplyDeleteWe were on the move quite a bit and although wi-fi readily available it became tiresome to find an outlet, and a new log-in, wherever we were going.
DeleteMy wife really appreciated that I did not get the computer out for three days.