Crisis - the check up ( Archived) (47)

With the recent drops in the interest rate in the uk,
some people are in fact, considerably better off.

They're not spending it in my shop though.

Ask the SAS employees...

I would work, I'm too poor or stubborn not to

Ask the Republican senators!!

Well, I'm not gonna buy anything from ya, am I??!! What... and have 7 years back luck?!!

There is an official number in each region stating the percentage of unemployment.

Recent numbers have not changed much since a year back - it does not mean all is good, but certainly not that we are in the same position as in the 1930's.

This poll can not prove anything if not more than at least 1000 make it here, I doubt that will happen.

But it will make me wonder, if we have less than 10% of the people here effected by the crisis.

If they are 50 000 leaving, then of course. But they're not.

And it is more due to the bad business they have been doing for quite a while (incompetence at the rudder if you ask me), in combination with having to drag Spanair along until now.

They sold that for 1 Euro, or 80% of it, should make them need to cut down some ticket offices and ground personnel not needed any longer.

But then again, now Spanair need to hire their own staff to replace that people, so the total balance is...? Yeah, you see..

I'd better not

I suspect it's early days yet.

In Portugal, many mid and small comapnies will be closing as a measure of the Government due to tax evasion. I think it will be a disaster since the country lives from those sized companies.
The country has always conspired of crisis. When the global crisis came about, they asked people not to panic because the country would not get hit by it . I think that all they tried to avoid was the replacement of the banks for the people's own matresses. Now that they thought of cleaning it a bit, the conspiracy is back in a double dosage. Oh God, time to panic!

This poll is lacking one option that applies to a lot of people these days: "I'm working the job I could get, not the one I had/want/need."

Me too, it's been on for half a year now, that not much historically.

The cycles in finance have changed though, "fixed rules" does not apply any more while the cycles them self have shortened their deep lows.

I believe us leaving this one before the end of spring 2010, until then much can happen but the everyday life should not change heavily. At most, we will not change homes at such short intervals as we have done the last 10 years.

There is a theory of mine but it is an embryo right now, will post it later when I have tighten it up a little and had a sleep.

Actually, that's a different thing and another topic; here a job is a job.

Many of us have at some point in life had a job we did not wish to have, but had to take, due to various reasons.

What we are being told now is that people are loosing jobs and there is nothing to compensate it with.

We have exactly the same in Spain, where small businesses need to close due to tighten financial situation and lack of large numbers of tourists.

But we already started at 20% unemployment and with more than 40% living under circumstances internationally seen as being poor.

The difference is how this country work, families share things here, have plots of land where they grow a little veggies and so on.

Financial crisis here means that the brokers can not sell properties at the sensless price levels they have kept for long. They still insist trying but close to 75 000 have closed down.

Now that number tells its own story. Why on earth do we have that many property brokers, when most of them are trying to sell land with a sea view?

Over heated market, bound to get hit, and the small businesses around it are the more or less skilled builders that opened their own shop to build the huts they are selling for a million bucks per 100 square meter.

They realised now that they have entered the EU without embracing it, people to not even speak a second language, less take part of the extensive cross border trade most other countries here have made use of.

A bit late for that at this moment, but this is the event that makes Spain change its course. It will hurt, but it began already in the end of 2007, that is way before anyone spoke of a down in the market.

I can only guess, but it should apply very much to Portugal as well as they are not big exporters of many things.

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I work full time, overtime was cut last week.

Due to cost or lack of need?

I am in the business of seducing rich ladies , providing the best bang for the cream who can afford me

Full time,officially