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Posts Tagged ‘recover’

OUR FLOURISHING ECONOMY

Huge New Job Losses Send Stocks Soaring!

Thursday, April 2nd, 2009

Whoa, wtf?It’s another new new unemployment record, America! The happy month of March saw 669,000 U.S. jobs vanish, bringing the jobless rate up to 8.5% — the highest since the end of Reagan’s Lil’ Depression at the end of 1982. About 5 million jobs have now been lost in this current Great Recession. And stocks are on fire — the Dow’s over 8,000 again! MORE »