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In reply to the discussion: STOCK MARKET WATCH - Monday, 5 March 2012 [View all]Tansy_Gold
(17,857 posts)6. It's the 'bots, y'know?
I was surprised not to see some expected faces in that thread.
Gas prices are up, and even some of the pundits are acknowleding it has nothing to do with peak oil or rising demand or the economy at all -- it's the fucking speculators.
Foreclosures haven't stopped, and home prices continue to fall.
And no one is talking about what kind of jobs are being created and what they're paying, because too many of the jobs that were lost when the greedhead corporations moved to low-wage labor markets need at least three "new" jobs to reach an equivalency in pay. . . . and there is no equivalency in benefits.
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