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If Detroit builds it, who will buy?

Monday, December 8, 2008 17:06 No Comments

I have been following some of the coverage on television about the auto industry bailout and feel that there is one important point that has not been covered. That is, who will buy all of the autos and trucks that the auto makers will be building? If so many people have lost jobs, homes and [...]

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Re-regulation? What does it say about us?

Thursday, September 18, 2008 15:03 No Comments

When President Carter signed the Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 (Mandel,2008) it probably did not enter the mind of anyone that 30 years later re-regulation would start to come back into play. But what does this tell us about how people act when they do not feel that there is any oversight of what they [...]

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Here’s an Idea

Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:33 No Comments

What if we took all the money that is going to save the big businesses and instead used it to help the average person facing foreclosure? By making it so they were able to make their payments and stay in their houses, this would save the loans from going into default and so the big [...]

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Job cuts

Monday, September 15, 2008 16:44 No Comments

I read about all of these job cuts that are taking place and I wonder what people are thinking. The more people that are laid off the less money there is to buy things, so how does it help in the end if you slash jobs but then have no one to buy your products [...]

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Financial crisis

Monday, September 15, 2008 13:36 No Comments

It is sort of strange that in this day and age when we are supposed to be so advanced that financial problems like what has gripped the world could happen. Or could it be that man’s greed has pushed aside his morals? Now, all of the people that do not make the large amounts of [...]

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