This is bad:
Putting pressure on an already lousy job market, the mass layoff is making a comeback. In the past week, Cisco, Lockheed Martin and Borders announced a combined 23,000 in job cuts. (See: Another Retailer Bites the Dust: Borders Doomed by Amazon Deal, Davidowitz Says)
Those announcements follow 41,432 in planned cuts in June, up 11.6% from May and 5.3% vs. a year earlier, according to Challenger, Gray & Christmas.
Meanwhile, state and local governments have cut 142,000 jobs this year, The WSJ reports, and Wall Street is braced for another round of cutbacks. This week, Goldman Sachs announced plans to let go 1000 fixed-income traders.
If these trends continue, we may soon be talking about losses in the monthly employment data — not just disappointing growth, says Howard Davidowitz, CEO of Davidowitz & Associates
“Everything in business is confidence,” Davidowitz says. “You lose confidence and businesses can’t deal with that [and] who could have confidence with what’s going on in Washington?”
Who, indeed? There is no excuse for the Lamestream Media© efforts to portray the economy as rosey in a time of 9+% unemployment. They are beyond cheerleading for Obama. They are propagandising for him as surely as Goebbles propagandised for Hitler. I don’t think that is a Godwin, because the Lamestream Media© has mastered the art of the Big Lie, and now everything they say is suspect.
Tags: Depression, Obama Boom, Unemployment
