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Ah, now it seems appropriate. Who cares?

Whole lot of nothin'

Thanks for posting the unemployment figures Fred. One thing to keep in mind, however, is that unemployment is calculated differently today than it was back in the 1930's. Back then, if you were unemployed, you were unemployed, period. However, today if you are unemployed but got discouraged and are...

Comparison

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Witchiepoo wrote:Whatever he said last night seems to have triggered another nose-dive in the stock market. I don't think the guy has the slightest clue what he's doing.

I think it's more of a 'buy on the rumor, sell on the news' type of thing.

I actually feel bad for him. It looked to me like a disaster, but we'll have to wait to see what the young folks think about it. Sincerely, John I didn't see it, but David Kaiser did on the T4T forums and had the complete opposite reaction . As for Millies, there's very little chance that this will...

> http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_11448257 This is an incredibly important story, with huge potential impact. I just wish I had an extra few hours to do an article on it. John FWIW, I think Mexico is the most likely nation-state to collapse in '09. As has been made abundantly clear, the state is...

I agree that judgement of whether a period is a crisis or not should be by the amount of trauma it causes to the general population, not by death rate, but the 1960s certainly caused a lot more trauma than the 1950s. This is contrary to the basic principles of generational theory. Trauma is a good ...

Violent clashes in Russia as angry protesters call for Putin to resign over economy (apologies for Daily Mail, but it had pictures)

Do you put the start date in '83?

Stop generalizing. You're not supposed to put everyone born in 1 time-period into 1 group, and put another into another group, and then treat each group as one entity. You have to realise that everyone is different and just blindly saying Generation X is this and this and Generation Y is this and t...