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keep_it_real (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:04 PM Original message |
Our Economy May Be in a Death Spiral |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
1. Oh, please. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
3. We're in a death spiral if the demand side of the equation |
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lxlxlxl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:36 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. Don't be dismissive. It's a death spiral for millions of people. |
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rvablue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:59 PM Response to Reply #7 |
15. And the really bad part of the DHL layoffs is that |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:10 PM Response to Reply #1 |
10. Au contraire! |
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gristy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:16 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. I don't disagree with what you say other than the use of the term "death spiral" |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:46 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. How does this situation square off with the USSR and the Argentina |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 05:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. If we go into a deflationary stage, you will eat those words |
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acmavm (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 06:09 PM Response to Reply #1 |
20. An economy is dead if it doesn't manufacture something to SELL. All of |
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blue_onyx (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 10:45 PM Response to Reply #1 |
24. A death spiral seems possible to me |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. If it means the rise of a new, saner economy, |
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Blue Meany (986 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. Agreed, but it may be a much less complex economy |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:58 PM Response to Reply #4 |
9. And this is why we must retrain ourselves |
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99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
5. If Congress had given every US household $2,300, instead of giving Paulson $700 Billion |
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TwixVoy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Oh please |
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99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 10:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
21. Hey, I'm ALL FOR "massive changes" ... as in a FDR>BHO "Newer Deal", nationalizing banks/AIG |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:25 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. The American consumer's biggest problem is D E B T !! |
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99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 10:31 PM Response to Reply #12 |
22. nice. let's do it. ~nt~ |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 05:44 PM Response to Reply #5 |
18. that bribe didn't work twice, so how exactly was it going to work three times? |
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earth mom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 05:51 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. And the bastards on Wall Street didn't need the BILLIONS no TRILLIONS they stole |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 03:03 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. How many times do I have to tell you that the bailout |
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99th_Monkey (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 10:39 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. I'm all for the WPA approach. Any strategy that pumps money back into local communities |
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nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Nov-16-08 03:04 PM Response to Reply #23 |
26. that is the aproach they will take, way too many trial balloons on that |
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Edweird (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
6. Has "the economy is a death spiral" become the new "attack on Iran coming"? |
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crimsonblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 04:25 PM Response to Original message |
13. not death spiral, but a deflationary spiral. |
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FKA MNChimpH8R (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Nov-15-08 05:38 PM Response to Original message |
16. No economy based on the mindless consumption of optional and |
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