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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 8, 2007 20:33:06 GMT -6
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Post by blueneck on Feb 10, 2007 15:07:18 GMT -6
This is a good site - I get their newsletter periodically
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on Feb 11, 2007 3:35:25 GMT -6
I get their newsletter myself. The site has some really good articles, especially those opposing globalization.
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Post by Squeeze on Nov 18, 2008 13:43:42 GMT -6
what is the most recent volume and issue of the current american economic alert newsletter?
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Post by unlawflcombatnt on May 4, 2009 17:04:55 GMT -6
Below is an example of some the graphs found at American Economic Alert: ![](http://americaneconomicalert.org/Images/Prod_ID2132_1_1.gif)
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Post by spudbuddy on Jan 18, 2010 13:02:14 GMT -6
Had a peek at the Economic Alert, and enjoyed Kevin Kearn's article about education not being the pat answer to joblessness. I've been digging around for stuff on this issue lately - after digging around for current stories on educational debt debacles, fiascos and tragicomedies....trying to suss out the bigger picture: That there isn't enough to go around - a lot of people graduating, taking work that their degree was not needed for, grossly underpaid (which makes paying off the student loans that much more difficult.)
My sense of all this comes to a pretty dark assessment: that the educational "industry" is sucking up ever-rising fee income, while the credit industry in cahoots is sucking up ever-increasing interest income on the debts incurred to pay those tuition fees and other educational costs. The combination of the two seems to me to be the perfect symbiotic pair of leeches, sucking a lot of blood out of a lot of young people. That those young people were delivered unto charge card shark heaven forthwith upon enrolment didn't help matters much, especially considering that through their family ties to elders at home, they've acquired the most toxic attitudes about consumer debt....all adding up to a whole lot of lambs sacrificed on financial altars.
Because I work in education myself (major university library) I find myself wondering how many more years it's going to take before massive numbers of young people revolt - not against the idea of higher education (no tuning in, turning on and dropping out for them!) but against the idea of high-cost education that can't be paid for because the jobs it was supposed to lead to, simply aren't there. I have a feeling this could be quite a possible outcome within the decade. Just think .... the college grad who starts their working life with 40 or 50 thousand of debt (or more - the equivalent of a mortgage) - and five or ten years later is still spinning their wheels, because of un - or under - employment. Compared to the high school grad or even dropout who wormed their way into some soul-less service job that at least provided steady employment...the debt-free part of the equation might begin to look rather attractive to "over-educated bums".............bums for no other reason than that their education has become counterfeit.........and that for no other reason than that the domestic economy offers no opportunities in (whatever field they were supposedly educated for.) I'd like to see a couple million grads zoom through university acquiring degrees in absolutely nothing - other than that which guarantees future gainful employment. (medicine? accounting? ultra-high technology?) It's still a crapshoot. Millions of parents yapped at their kids endlessly - to do all the things that were supposed to enable them to avoid this current scenario. Research and development, industrial design, manufacturing.....the million commodities whose sales provided the revenues that created the need for all that job base. But now........well, we'll just sell the world Tinkerbell dvds, uh? (however many brains one of those requires, that's a sad comedown, I'd say.)
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Post by graybeard on Jan 18, 2010 22:53:50 GMT -6
100% inspection of all imports - paid by the importers - would employ tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans of all skill and educational levels. It's a sure return to prosperity.
GB
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