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From the Obama Boom™: Return of Mass Layoffs a Grim Sign for U.S. Workers

by Iron Fist ( 4 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines at July 22nd, 2011 - 8:09 am

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.

Obama Boom: Weekly Unemployment claims up unexpectedly again!

by Phantom Ace ( 3 Comments › )
Filed under Economy, Energy, Headlines at July 21st, 2011 - 10:25 am

I wonder who are these economists that get polled by the media. Time after time, they expect rosy economic news. Time after time, the bad news is viewed as unexpected! Once again, jobless claims stay above 400,000. Last week 418,000 people filed for unemployment benefits. This is a sign of an anemic and weak job market, not the fictitious Obama Boom the media keeps pushing.

New U.S. claims for unemployment benefits rose more than expected last week, a government report showed on Thursday, pointing to a labor market that is struggling to regain momentum after job growth faltered in the last two months.

Initial claims for state unemployment benefits increased 10,000 to a seasonally adjusted 418,000, the Labor Department said.

Economists polled by Reuters had forecast claims rising to 410,000. The prior weeks figure was revised up to 408,000 from the previously reported 405,000.

The Obama Depression continues unabated.

(Hat Tip: Nevergiveup)

They are finally calling it the “Obama Depression”

by Iron Fist ( 8 Comments › )
Filed under Headlines at July 11th, 2011 - 3:37 pm

Check out the headline. In SeeBS, no less:

Analyst: Even Dollar Stores Struggling In ‘Obama Depression’

July 11, 2011 9:19 AM

LOS ANGELES (CBS) — More stores across the U.S. that offer deeply-discounted products are seeing their sales decline after years of growth amid America’s “Great Recession” — and one analyst said on Monday it’s another sign of even deeper downturn.

While the demand at stores like the 99-Cent Store or Dollar Tree is still relatively high, the biggest chains in the nation have fallen short of Wall Street’s expectations for several months, a trend that may prove even more ominous for the economy at large.

“I think what’s going on in those stores is that we are in a depression for 80 percent of Americans,” top retail analyst Howard Davidowitz told KNX 1070.

That is the first time I have seen it called a “Depression” in a non-right wing venue. The wheels are starting to come of Obama’s Magic Bus…

No Obama Boom in 2011

by Phantom Ace ( 10 Comments › )
Filed under Barack Obama, Economy, Misery Index, Progressives, Socialism, Special Report, unemployment at July 11th, 2011 - 11:03 am

Since 2009, Economic experts in the media have been proclaiming that the economy is booming. When confronted with anemic numbers, they claim it’s always a soft spot and that in the 2nd half of the year, the economy will soar. Well it’s already 1/2 way through 2011 and once again, no sign of this Obama Boom.

Economist Lakshman Achuthan, is one of the few who doesn’t push the Obama Boom. In fact he says there will be no recovery in 2011. He goes on step further, he predicts a recession in 2012.

As the financial world emitted a collective groan when the June jobs data crossed the wires this morning, Lakshman Achuthan was calm, unmoved and not surprised. In fact, the co-founder of the Economic Cycle Research Institute says he’s seen it coming for months.

“The economy is down-shifting…you can see in the jobs number that the sand is shifting,” he says.

[….]

With so much riding on – and priced into – an economic and earnings rebound in the second-half of the year, Achutan not only pours water on that, but ups the ante by saying he cannot rule out slumping into another recession in 2012. “You have a 4/10ths rise in the unemployment rate over the last 3 months. That doesn’t happen in an economy that is reviving or firming or gaining steam,” he explains.

 Lakshman Achuthan is spot on. There isn’t and there will not be an Obama Boom. It’s a media invention designed to create the illusions of a good economy to help the Obama Regime. What these clowns didn’t count on was something called reality. Obama’s policies have failed and no amount of spin will change that.