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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 10:50 AM Original message |
If This Isn’t a Recession, Then What the Hell is It? |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. It's the new normal |
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toppertwot (49 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 07:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
37. WHAT THE HELL IS IT? |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 10:53 AM Response to Original message |
2. maybe stagnation.. |
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butterfly77 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 10:54 AM Response to Original message |
3. It was a.. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 10:55 AM Response to Original message |
4. Very slow growth that eschews bubble economies. . |
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HomerRamone (460 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:13 AM Response to Reply #4 |
5. Do NOT accept this as the "new normal"! nt |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:19 AM Response to Reply #5 |
7. Although it's the new normal, we should not accept it. |
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Ozymanithrax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:21 AM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I'm not accepting, just considering the possibility. |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:05 PM Response to Reply #8 |
41. Yup. We need an Apollo energy mission or we are dead in the water. |
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damntexdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:18 AM Response to Original message |
6. A long-term decline in the American economy and accompanying rise in inequality. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
9. It's the neocon attempt at drowning in a bathtub. |
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Demeter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
10. Finance's Alamo |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:27 AM Response to Original message |
11. Controlled collapse. |
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Mojorabbit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 04:04 PM Response to Reply #11 |
31. I think you are right on the mark. nt |
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Jkid (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:34 AM Response to Original message |
12. The new normal |
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dmallind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:35 AM Response to Original message |
13. A very slow and mostly as yet jobless expansion on the economy. |
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Urban Prairie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:36 AM Response to Original message |
14. Wild-ass guess |
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Orsino (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:38 AM Response to Original message |
15. Chickens roosting. n/t |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:56 AM Response to Original message |
16. PS. If the recession ended (for Big Business) that means our current woes are due to DELIBERATE |
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RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 12:17 PM Response to Reply #16 |
19. I don't think you're wrong. |
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Jax (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 04:40 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Wow McCamy, you nailed it here. |
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Art_from_Ark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:48 PM Response to Reply #16 |
42. That's a good synopsis |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 11:57 AM Response to Original message |
17. A slow growth period following a huge collapse |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 12:06 PM Response to Original message |
18. a permanent correction |
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glitch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 12:27 PM Response to Original message |
20. A country in liquidation. |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 12:49 PM Response to Original message |
21. The results of an administration massaging numbers and limiting what is considered |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 01:33 PM Response to Reply #21 |
24. NBER is not part of the administration |
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Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 01:40 PM Response to Reply #24 |
25. Yargle bargle blargh! |
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scheming daemons (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 06:34 PM Response to Reply #25 |
35. 9.6%.... 0.3%..... and yes |
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laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
22. A4: All of the above. |
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katty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
23. a desperately trying to control collapse-and making sure to |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 01:50 PM Response to Original message |
26. hmm... |
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Igel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 02:29 PM Response to Reply #26 |
27. Polysemy. |
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chervilant (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 02:56 PM Response to Reply #27 |
29. Lovely |
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beforeyoureyes (289 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 02:53 PM Response to Original message |
28. It's now the status quo and until we get some real leadership in Washington and FIGHT |
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Hannah Bell (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 02:59 PM Response to Original message |
30. capital strike. |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 08:38 PM Response to Reply #30 |
39. Very good! So our next move should be.....Nationalize the Banks! |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 04:41 PM Response to Original message |
33. It's been the American nightmare for about 95% of us for quite some time. nt |
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Mnemosyne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 05:32 PM Response to Original message |
34. Quicker deaths of the poor? A3. n/t |
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gulliver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
36. It's an example of horrendously poor communication. |
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laureloak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 07:15 PM Response to Original message |
38. Recession is when the economy is in decline. Its growing now. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Sep-21-10 08:38 PM Response to Original message |
40. Yahoo had an article up less than 2 months ago, Obama calling this a "depression" .... |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 10:00 AM Response to Reply #40 |
47. shhhh ..you are not supposed to remind dumb people that..because the only people who could believe |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 02:18 PM Response to Reply #47 |
50. Yes ... it seems to be a shiny new propaganda tool . . . |
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eridani (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 01:35 AM Response to Original message |
43. A really fucked up "new normal"? n/t |
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Recursion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 08:32 AM Response to Original message |
44. A period of high unemployment and sluggish growth of the GDP |
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Juche (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
45. An acceleration of the decoupling between capital and labor |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 02:21 PM Response to Reply #45 |
51. Think we need a major labor movement -- and a big slowdown by workers ..... |
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flyarm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 09:46 AM Response to Original message |
46. Your imagination???????????? |
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markmyword (63 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 04:48 PM Response to Original message |
48. Who Are We KIdding! |
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KatyaR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Sep-22-10 06:48 PM Response to Original message |
49. I think this news is what put me over the edge this week. |
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defendandprotect (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Sep-23-10 02:23 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. GOP used to specialize in trying to demoralize Dems...now it seems Dems are doing it -- !! |
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