macandjan
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posted on November 22, 2000 06:26:59 PM
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VeryModern
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posted on November 22, 2000 06:31:32 PM
How's this for denial.
I searched "recession" on Yahoo and pulled up ONE item.
Here it is:
Entertainment > Music > Artists > By Genre > Folk and Traditional > Celtic > Harpists
Allerton, Steven - wedding and event harpist who will play background music as well as
processionals and recessionals of Classical and Celtic music.
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reamond
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posted on November 22, 2000 06:34:33 PM
Hey Mac- don't be down about a bankruptcy. It is part of business. There are far worse fates.
Ted Turner's [ of CNN] dad was bankrupt and I think Ted was once also, and don't forget Chyrsler was until the US govt baled them out. I know lawyers and doctors, and even a police chief that were bankrupt also.
Bankruptcy is not a character flaw, it is part and parcel of doing business.
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macandjan
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posted on November 22, 2000 06:44:36 PM
"Sun W. Kim" <[email protected]>
[ edited by macandjan on Dec 4, 2000 01:58 PM ]
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tomwiii
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posted on November 22, 2000 06:49:44 PM
Yeah, next think ya know, he'll turn Social Security into a Federal Program!! Duh...Duh...Duh...
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macandjan
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posted on November 22, 2000 07:23:18 PM
[ edited by macandjan on Dec 4, 2000 01:59 PM ]
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Pocono
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posted on November 22, 2000 07:46:08 PM
"And maybe you could 'splain to me how the president could "try to tax the 'commoners'"when it's Congress that does the taxing? Although the prez certainly sets the tone, all he can do is veto taxes that Congress proposes. Unlike Bad King John, he can't levy taxes on his own."
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When all THREE branches are republican he can... 
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Hey bubba (nice name, what a kawinkie dink)
I'm not familiar with the photo, care to enlighten us?
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macandjan
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posted on November 22, 2000 08:08:35 PM
[ edited by macandjan on Dec 4, 2000 01:59 PM ]
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reamond
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posted on November 22, 2000 08:18:19 PM
Well I don't know how soon, but that universal health care thing will be back.
With the amount of people uninsured and genetic testing around the corner, I don't see how we can avoid it.
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cassiescloset
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posted on November 22, 2000 08:28:17 PM
Democrats--George W. will be next president, so don't boohoo.
The economy is due for an adjustment down, and guess who will get the blame?
We can count on an 8 year democratic president to be elected in 2004, someone with a little more pizzazz than Big Al.
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amalgamated2000
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posted on November 22, 2000 08:36:14 PM
We can count on an 8 year democratic president to be elected in 2004, someone with a little more pizzazz than Big Al.
And her initials are HRC...
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reamond
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posted on November 22, 2000 08:44:41 PM
Well the pros are claiming that no matter who wins, their party will lose the next elections.
Once Al and Dubya realize this maybe they will go to court to try and disqualify their own votes.
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outoftheblue
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posted on November 22, 2000 09:09:59 PM
Doom, despair and agony on me. Deep dark depression, excessive misery.....
What's all the doom and gloom garbage. Business has never been better! Take a valium and go to bed. Things will look better in the morning.
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outoftheblue
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posted on November 22, 2000 09:22:54 PM
I saw a good one this morning.
There was a scruffy looking guy standing on the street corner with a sign that said... "Web developer. Dot Com folded. will code for food."
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chum
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posted on November 23, 2000 08:19:41 AM
Hillary is unstoppable. She swept into NYC like a out of control freight train. I would vote for her in a second. I enjoyed the past 8 years way too much!
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brighid868
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posted on November 23, 2000 08:32:09 AM
Mac, hang in there re: the bankruptcy....I had one back in 92 after a car accident/uninsured hospital visit wiped out my earnings power and my savings account....at the same time I had a lot of credit card debt too, from being young and stupid. I thought credit cards were so much fun...until I couldn't make the minimum payments. But I thank God now that it happened when it did, I was on a path to total financial chaos. I learned my lesson and now almost 10 years later I have some secured credit cards which I pay off carefully and some student loans and that's it. And I am much better off financially than I was before the bankruptcy. I know thats not at all what happened in your case but I just want you to know, people get past it, move on and it doesn't haunt you forever. Take care.
Kim
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mjh2
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posted on November 23, 2000 09:11:06 AM
If eBay does not stabilize its site, the economy won't matter one bit.
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HJW
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posted on November 23, 2000 09:25:25 AM
HartCottageQuilts
And you are concerned with "my" accuracy?
Give me a break!!!
Helen
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jthorner
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posted on November 23, 2000 10:44:04 AM
If you read the Chrysler news carefully you will see that the workers will still be taking home 95% of their prior after-tax base pay. Maybe they will be sitting around the house spending that money.
John
jthorner
http://www.thinkertoyscarmel.com/
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HartCottageQuilts
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posted on November 23, 2000 11:20:59 AM
[i]And you are concerned with "my" accuracy?
Give me a break!!! [/i]
Well, hjw, your post is certainly cryptic...if that was your intent.
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sg52
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posted on November 23, 2000 02:13:16 PM
At first glance, you couldn't tell a recession year from a boom year during any time since WWII.
Life goes on.
Product trends are vastly more volatile than are large scale economic factors. Products are obsoleted or fall out of style, replaced by competitive products.
Avoiding an inventory of stuff no one wants is the goal, as compared to predicting the economy.
sg52
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macandjan
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posted on November 23, 2000 04:46:25 PM
[ edited by macandjan on Dec 4, 2000 02:00 PM ]
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reamond
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posted on November 24, 2000 10:07:44 AM
Lenders have always tried to make bankruptcy some moral degenerative act. The reason they do this is because they have to swallow the loss and they hope to bleed as many people as they can by goading them into not filing for bankruptcy.
Lenders are much better able to amortize a loss than an individual.
If we didn't have liberal bankruptcy laws, no one would take risks and economic growth would grind to a halt.
A bankruptcy is no different than a corporation's stock dramatically falling. Everyone knows the rules going in, which includes debts being discharged in bankruptcy, as well as losing your shirt in the stock market.
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