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applegrove

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1. Boomers are retiring so jobs are opening up. High employment used to mean

Reply to larwdem (Original post)

Wed Apr 24, 2019, 12:09 AM

Apr 2019

rising wages but with anti union activity, globalism and automation wages are not rising. Wages not rising means inflation is not rising. So booms can go on longer. But booms for who is the question.

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good economy fact or fiction? [View all] larwdem Apr 2019 OP

Boomers are retiring so jobs are opening up. High employment used to mean applegrove Apr 2019 #1

There's no doubt a good bit of hype around the economy sandensea Apr 2019 #2

Red Don et al took the regulations away, of course the economy is over heating. Watch DOW... uponit7771 Apr 2019 #3

"good" for whom? anarch Apr 2019 #4

The stock market is a mystery. I still think the Orange King is manipulating the market with Vinca Apr 2019 #5