Economy/jobs Threads

• Is Dot-Com Fever Gone Forever?
• Has Hyperinflation Begun?
• St. Croix refinary down; affects US gasoline supplies
• Recsession Nancy Gold
• Clinton Administration Fails to Honor the Guano Act of 1856 (Austin American-Statesman)
• Gas is now $1.50 here in central NY. How much where you are?
• Recession appears
• Mortgage rates may reach 9% by August
• A profile of market action preceding previous crashes
• Why doesn't BIG AL use the "INVERSION OF THE T BONDS to reduce the deficit? If 30 year bonds cost 6.125 per cent and 2 year bonds cost 6.594 per cent (current rates) each $200B of short term bonds converted to long term bonds would be a savings of $ 1 Billion per year interest. Curly
• A new economy still can face old-style bad times!
• "Plenty of Nothing: the Current Status of the U.S. Economy"
• BT (Basketball Topic) - NY Knicks 87, Indiana Pacers 73
• OT - Excellent economic analysis
• Centralized distribution system fails, company files for bankruptcy
• What will happen to the euro? A great article by Jim Rogers
• What did the 1930's depression look like (personal family stories
• Small Business
• ZDUDE -- hear is your whistling in the graveyard
• "The Hayek Century" appears in today's Washington Times
• Decreased Y2K Spending Takes Bite Out Of Keane 4Q Sales, Profits
• Department store chain files bankruptcy, cites Y2k costs
• OT: Sudden Wealth Syndrome hits Net millionaires
• It's Official-Japan is in Recession....
• OT - About the National debt
• So when does inflation start?
• Japan's Growing Debt Could Wreck the World Economy, Scholars Say
• Le Metropole Bulletin: Gold Hedging
• Productivity - Can productivity increases continue?
• Rising prices worry manufacturers
• OT - Calling ALL Workers Unions - raise your BATTLE FLAGS!!!!
• Economic crisi sparks gas rationing in Zimbabwe (formerly Rhodesia), civil unrest feared
• OT: MSN.COM laying off workers for first time ever
• OT: Stock Market, an amazing, sideways January 2000
• Gas at $1.45/gallon here. How about where you are?
• The Liquidity Trap
• tank about the market
• Anybody out there know about USA shipping; trucks, rail?
• Can someone explain the wild daily gyrations in stock market?
• Chemtrail analysis
• George Bush in Middle East-- Higher Oil prices-- Elections?
• anybody know how the oil situation impacts farming fertilizers?
• Why all these oil threads when the price of crude is the same as it was 3 weeks ago? A message for rumor-mongers everywhere...
• OT Excellent story on smartmoney.com about the "Second Great Depression" as seen from the future (2045)
• Another red dawn brewing?
• Gold Bugs. I am about to buy coin. Any last minute advice?
• OT:The Rich Get Richer.....
• O.T. Inflation vs Deflation Gold vs Realestate
• ++United States seen facing symptoms of Asian crisis ++
• **STILL PARTYING ON THE Deck OF THE TITANIC**
• Flint, Michigan: Gasoline 44 cents higher than one year ago
• Really fine article re. inflation/stocks/economy
• A Redneck's take on the economy
• What Friday's Inflation Report Missed by John Crudele (NY Post online)
• If we have depression in the next few years,how will it compare to 1930's re availability of products?
• Thanks a lot, guys -- now hit the road
• What is the true inflation rate?
• You economics experts - please explain this to me
• OT? Bubble.com companies forced to face reality check: the bottom line
• When Windowing goes bad... an example 1/14/00
• James Grant on bubbles
• Businesses may have started stockpiling for Y2K in November
• W.W.Grainger experiences inventory problems, earning loss
• Paul Milne post. Read before you decide to toss those out your preps. This is IMHO a sure thing.
• So how are payroll systems doing?
• Dow 11522 and Comeau's prediction.
• OT: "All the signs point to a bubble waiting to burst"
• NATIONAL POST: "Tough decisions after Y2Kraziness" - Jonathan Chevreau says 'Some may argue we aren't out of the woods yet, but I don't agree. For all intents and purposes, the problem has been licked, as Peter de Jager declared last March in his "Doomsday Avoided" essay.'
• NEW YORK POST: "HOW THE Y2K BUG BIT GREENSPAN & WALL ST" - JOHN CRUDELE asserts 'NOW you are really seeing the Y2K bug in action.'
• OT - THE TIMES: "Ten years ago the economic bubble burst in Japan" (A cautionary tale...)
• Massive Credit Card Glitches
• Calm down about the stock market, and remember 1987
• Paul Milne, Revisited
• Unintended Y2K Consequences
• Not Over Yet!
• A Worthwhile Re-post: About Money
• Not Over yet!
• Prediction by analyst Bigwig Could Help Drive Market
• Market Mania....Get Out Now!
• Back at work ....
• The more I think about this - Fraud-O-Rama!
• Reflections on Y2K
• What Will Be The Tripwire?
• Now, about money
• More Predictions
• ** The Contrarians Have a Doomsday Chat**
• What's going on with the Stock Market?
• American Farm Bureau's final thoughts on y2k
• Any word from Greenspan?
• Economists Predict Fed to Leave Rates Unchanged Because of Y2K
• The Crash Index
• Remed Costs Shoot, Cos Can't Make It
• Personal Experience - Autoparts Manufacturer
• CNNfn: Trade Deficit hits record
• LET ME ASK YOU THIS.....
• Business Self-Reporting; Actually Self-Delusion?
• OT/Gold: gold-eagle editorial on the continuing War On Gold (multi-part series)
• Y2K Predictions from Forum Regular (including me)
• What is "best estimate" of cost for fixing the problem? Why are there differences in estimate?
• Can "Bad" be "Good"?
• FED paranoia on Y2K
• TED Spread
• OT/Gold: "The Gold Standard: An Analysis of Some Recent Proposals" - (dated 1982) article
• Wanted-Y2k Compliant Woman
• US GDP info, consumer spending, Y2K, burn-money, etc. etc.
• The Fed is Paranoid about Y2K (NY Post)
• Gold conference on-line Today (Dec 2)
• Most FII's (Foreign Institutional Investors) told to keep off the market from Dec 15
• Dr. Yardeni's "Final Answer" (full text - non PDF version)
• Dr. Yardeni issues clarification
• "Wall Street's Y2K Alarmist turns optimist" - Article in today's Globe & Mail (Toronto)
• OK folks, help me out...will we have inflation or deflation? Will one event turn into another after a few weeks in Jan. or Feb? Many thanks!
• Investors bet on emerging markets rally after
• U.S. could tap oil reserves in emergency
• OT: paging for STFrancis
• OT/Economy: gold-eagle editorial - "Motive, Means and Opportunity: Solving the Inflation Puzzle"
• WHERE DO YOU THINK Y2K WILL BE THE WORST? TOP TEN CITIES...
• Shopping at Lowes
• Y2K has building industry playing it safe
• Durable Goods orders dropping while crude oil is popping - Y2K is off and running
• Expert says no guarantee on South Africa Y2K readiness
• Econ 101 essay on Y2K and depression - needs critique
• CNBC discusses impact of rising oil
• Betting the Bear
• Y2K and Increased Credit Limits
• Where are we really?
• Large gasoline stocks drop leads bullish API report
• Irish Police strike because of Y2K
• SEC SEARCH THREAD, best sites to search for 10 - Q filings
• NEW YORK TIMES Year 2000 Readiness Disclosure
• Mobil Y2K disclosure
• BOEING CO Y2K disclosure For the optimists
• An industry that WILL fail if school remediation figures are correct
• Problematics in the development of economic predictions and statements about Y2K (A Civil Answer to Mr. Decker)
• Economists wonder what the Y2K fuss is about
• New Contrarian's View - Paul Milne on the Economy
• anecdotal for what it's worth department...
• OT/Economy: gold-eagle article - "Does the DOW truly reflect the industrial outlook?"
• y2k Impact on Economy-Oct 25th Senate hearing
• OT?--Hewlett Packard in Roseville, CA to Layoff 1,100 workers
• DOS Screens
• IPO VIEW: Techs Rush To Debut In November -Y2K
• (GOLD) What's going on in Sydney?
• What to do? Be a coward or try to be a hero?
• Info gridlock, economic meltdown (Ed Yardeni)
• OT: Why Save? Many Americans Hope For Lottery Win
• GartnerGroups says the pace of failures has picked up since October 1st
• Y2K experience shows Millennium bug may strike early
• family/child support payments post2k: let them eat food
• Computer Reseller News: Taiwan quake, Y2K stockpiling "frenzy" hit PC channel
• How to cope with a bear market -- "Buy & Hold" isn't the way
• OT: "Crash of '99" Article
• Dick Moody?
• ?OT: Big sales force layoff at AT&T?
• OT....Courting Catastrophe
• Some big British companies stockpiling and identifying alternate suppliers
• As a nation of consumers and a customer service oriented labor division,what will we do as a people if a world-wide banking collapse destroys our useless way of living?
• Stock Market Monday Oct 18 consolidated thread
• OT Dear GOLD BUGS..........
• Hawaii Residents: Prepping now may be too late!
• This Company Just Began Fixing Y2K A MONTH Ago!
• OT: Dow 3600
• I hope this mans wrong, CRASH COMING and WHY.
• OT: gold-eagle editorial - "Real Gold, Paper Gold and Fool's Gold: The Pathology of Inflation"
• OT: Too much craziness on Wall Street?
• Looks like there'll be blood in The Street today
• Does anyone else feel like a hypocrite
• post-y2k careers
• OT (maybe?): Retail Sales for September Pave the Way for Record
• != Y2K Is Bugging the Markets !=
• Flierdude is a genius!!!
• OT: gold-eagle editorial - "Debunking Deflation"
• Raytheon's Problems May be Due to Y2K
• [Economy-jobs] "With Time Running Out, Auto Dealers Are Counting on Computer Solutions Providers to Help Them Prepare for the New Millennium"--Too Late ...
• [Economy/jobs] Unbelievable Y2K-DGI pap from some (alleged) portfolio manager named Kenneth L. Fisher of Forbes.com forum! ...
• Vital U.S. Industries Harbor Y2K Laggards
• A long list of SEC Filings
• *The power to become habituated to his surroundings is a marked characteristic of mankind*..warnings from the grave
• gold-eagle Stock Market update for week of 10/11 - "...Another concern right now is the complete lack of fear surrounding Y2K..."
• OT/Gold: gold-eagle editorial - "Simple Math & Common Sense: A $66B Problem"
• OT: My ignorant question on Deficits and the Fed
• Nick Chase is a smart man
• 17% of Swiss firms surveyed expect to step up purchasing
• OT: gold-eagle article - price of gold&silver going "to the moon"?
• GITL got it too late ......
• OT/Gold: gold-eagle editorial on alleged past gold price manipulation - Aug 28 interview of Bill Murphy, Chairman of GATA
• Whither the Dow
• Whither the Dow
• OT/Gold: www.gold-eagle.com - 1) "A Bullish Mediation on Gold"; 2) "Gold" (&Central Banks, IMF)
• Some execs wary of Y2K
• Ecuador Defaults..Brady Bonds....TSAboutTHTF
• OT: www.gold-eagle.com "Gold & Stock Market Update"
• Understanding Money Supply..Part1
• Investment in the Internet has become a joke.Cramer comes out of the closet.
• 10 year depression because of Y2K...I DON'T GET.
• What's going to happen Monday? What's happened? World Indices
• gold-eagle editorial: "Y2K, Stocks and the Economy: The Unavoidable Bear Market of 2000"
• Stock Market: What's it going to do today?
• Disconnect in new article about the latest Cap Gemini America poll
• What is the total use of transportation across U.S. Industries? Answers here.
• U.S. Dept. of Commerce , BEA , Business Situation
• The Economist Weighs In - Nothing to fear but fear itself
• OT: gold-eagle editorial - "Gold Stocks and the Great Crash of 1929 REVISITED"
• Will the New Axis attack America next January? My predictions
• OT: For Anita: please get off my @$$ re: post-Y2K table-dancing
• What to expect from many if Y2K disrupts business
• Eddie on Greenspam
• Are we REALLY experiencing a LOW rate of inflation?
• Oatmeal + Fruit = Life?
• Wall Street Week guest actually mentions Y2k in a negative light... (no biggie but I thought I'd mention it)
• Greenspan comments Friday????
• US Imports depend on just ONE computer..(and its near toast!)
• Latest Yardeni Article - Looking for thread
• OT: "Gold & Stock Market Update" - gold-eagle article
• ANOTHER Ceo "Retires" - Major Corp. IOMEGA! - article
• "Why go out to ring in Y2K?"
• OT/gold-eagle article: "Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) & Bank of England (BOE) Fiascos Re-visited"
• 2 Weeks of no power can be total failure for many businesses
• Why Hedge Funds Blow Up
• Nobel Prize winning economist Milton Friedman ..current U.S. stock market exhibited uncanny parallels to prior manias
• Will your job or occupation still be open next year? (Mine won't)
• First National Bank Failure in W VA
• Opinions Wanted: If Mr. Bubble Goes Pop and the Dow Circles the Drain...
• Bubble Trouble
• "329 lose positions at Sabre Group; wide-ranging layoffs are effective immediately"--[RSM] These were not contractors; they were "real" employees[Economy/jobs]
• Party about to end with a Bang..big bang
• Exxon latest 10 - Q (Aug. 31) Y2K disclosure
• Beanie babies and Y2k
• Will The Fall Y2K Layoffs Begin? Autodesk Laying Off About 350 Workers
• The mortage business, rates, and Y2K
• Could stockpiles smooth rollover?
• Market myth and y2k
• interesting comparisons between `29 and `99
• Nike and third party information (or the lack of it)
• Losing 'prime'.
• OT: Business Week -- The Default Dilemma - More companies are walking away from their debt
• Poll says 62% of small biz in San Francisco have no plans to be Y2K ready
• OT More on defaults..prelude to Y2K
• OT: Economic Growth Slowest In A Year
• SEC Filing links by Category
• Dan Quayle urges Clinton to shield economy from Y2K
• Now, 1/4 of "experts" foresee downturn Jan/Feb 2000, Reuters
• OT/Economic: "Basic Facts Point Inescapably Toward Disaster" gold-eagle analysis
• OT Intel sparking new price war,Pentium III down 26%
• OT US economy straining at the seems
• Stock Market Q
• End In Sight for Cheap, Plentiful Stuff From China
• Meet the Beast, Inc.
• Deflation or Inflation due to y2k?
• Gold Moving UP - Y2K Referenced
• [OT?] New York Times (8/18) OP-ED
• Canadian Financial Planner Predicts Stock Market Crash
• What are you paying for gas
• GM to spend $360-$420 million on Y2K bug
• Riots erupt in Argentina,Citibank attacked
• OT: "Building a Global Mess" - an in-depth look at the role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)
• "keep you're eye on the bicycle"
• A Serious Correction beginning in September
• Wholesale Prices Rise in July-NYT on the Web
• Planning for a depression? It's depressing!
• of interest to you bears
• Yardeni affirms his earlier predictions
• Cap Gemini America survey: Less than half of major firms expect full compliance in critical systems
• OT: Commodity Prices (Gold) and Inflation
• FEMA's hiring!!!!!!!!!
• Economy - Is A Big Market Sell-Off Coming? (Reuters)
• The BUDGET SURPLUS IS A BIG FAT FARCE. First it could be used to pay off the national debt. ROTFLMAO. Then it was to be used for tax cuts. Then to secure social security and to pay for prescriptions. Then it would be used TO PAY OFF SOME BONDS. Then it
• a good article describing why an economic downturn will hurt more then it should
• OT: "Alarm Sounds for Weak Dollar" article in Wash Post
• Elec. Telegraph: Ignoring Y2K Bug = Jobs at Risk
• Pollys - a classification
• Homes Values in the Event of a Depression?
• gold-eagle artice: "Y2K - Another Perspective: The Effect of Y2K on Interest Rates, the Stock Market, and Gold"
• Greenspan comments on Y2K
• 4 Programmers: Programming a good career choice post y2k???
• Is this the calm before the storm??
• Big risks from small suppliers
• SEC to shut down firms by 12-1
• Girlfriend's Shell gas card expired 999 years ago
• I can't seem to escape the "penny shortage", at least for today...
• y2k tee-shirt's
• Economy -- May Trade Deficit Hits Record
• Moneymaking Hypocrits
• Vendors, suppliers and business partners (long article)
• United Parcel Service LAGGING?
• Can Mr. Decker, or any other econ-geek verify this?
• Elec. Telegraph: US v. Britain/Europe--Trade war looms again
• Elec. Telegraph: "Bring back mark" plea as euro hits new low
• ashton&leskarequestinghelp
• update at my job
• World's Y2K Problems Could Affect US
• JIT Inventory and Pollys..
• Dr. Ed Yardeni's recent comments on Y2K and the economy
• Is *your* company/business/employer going to make it?
• Farm commodity prices (beans etc.) 30% below cost of production, bank loans will not be repaid, this will trigger foreclosure and depression even if
• Y2K Economic Effects Begin
• Southeast Asian Economic Impact: $90Bil+
• WSJ interviews 54 top economists on calendar year 1999 and first quarter 2000
• 2 digit years??
• "Is Y2K worse than we thought?"
• Winners to prey on losers
• U.S. savings rate lowest since record-keeping began (1959)
• PBS "Frontline": "Crash"
• Economic Slowdown
• www.gold-eagle.com: "What Will Cause Stocks To Crash?" (Part 1 of 2)
• Surcharge imposed on Y2K hoarders????
• Questions for Mr. Decker: how to prepare for another great depression
• Insurers Could Pay $35 Bln In Y2K Costs
• OCTOBER, 1999. RUN ON THE BANKS! EXODUS OUT OF THE STOCKMARKET! EMPTY GROCERY STORE SHELVES! FINANCIAL COLLAPSE! STOCK UP NOW, OR FORGET IT!
• Hey... Some Genuine Y2K Good News (Business Impact)
• How credible is the IEA?
• WORLD BANKERS WARNING ON U.S.ECONOMY FROM BBC
• Recent Y2K survey of small businesses - about half have acted
• Geaorge Soros on the Capitalist Threat [not quite OT]
• Is there a business economist around here somewhere?
• S&P 500 Index overvalued by at least 35%, more likely 55%
• Keep Your Money in the Bank??
• Hong Kong Small Business Not Ready For Y2K
• THIS is part of why government and business leaders cannot necessarily be trusted re Y2K
• Venezuela Faces $1.5 Billion Y2K Computer Problem
• Seeking Economic Opinions on Post 2000 Interest Rates and Real Rates of Return
• Y2K seen as threat to local services
• More companies are experiencing Y2K failures
• More on Y2K Problems expected in Asia
• Question on economic impact
• CNNfn: U.S. trade deficit sets record
• And here I thought the stock market was OK....
• One for the folks in Pennsylvania
• Is 80% compliant good enough?
• NYTimes: Big Companies Falling Behind in Year 2000 Repairs, Survey Says
• Inflation - y2k surcharges on bills
• First quarter 10Q reports on SEC's EDGAR
• INFLATION... wait a minute... inflation???
• What to do about Mortgages if we have no job?
• Germany Mixed In Readiness For Year 2000
• Deflationary forces at work
• Y2K spending hits $3 trillion worldwide
• Y2k and the Global Economy (Dependancies)
• Asking for the numbers...
• Intel official says countries, banks may shut out non-compliant countries to avoid data contamination
• Large firms too optimistic on y2k progress
• Economy: if it's so good, why all the layoffs?
• Economic problems/social conditions two hundred years ago: similarities?
• Fortune 1000 SEC filings Show Many Laggards in Danger
• Looking for "the real story" from larger organizations
• Where will we get the workers for "manual workarounds?"
• Y2K Economic Impact in NZ
• Many Wall Street insiders are SELLING to the average invester!
• Banks start to announce readiness. What about other sectors of the economy?
• How long can a business stay afloat?
• *Famous* economist, with long track record of excellent predictions, says Y2K recession
• Economist: No Major Problems in US
• Thoughts from economist Mark Zandi, "Y2K One Last Time" (long)
• Norm, Please Step Out of the Room for a Moment . . .
• Video of Senate hearing on international Y2K preparedness
• Wal-Mart's Y2k costs up
• US Dept of Commerce: Y2k and the Global Trading System
• Today's Wall St. Journal Has Global Investing Section; No Mention of Y2K
• Link to Grabow article arguing that wealth transfer is about to begin
• A Texas economist looks at Y2K
• Post Y2K Careers
• Texas Insurance Department prepared to shut down non-compliant small insurers?
• EMS has wider Q1 loss, cuts costs
• Companies urged to prepare for Y2K power outages
• "Commerce Department Unveils Global Y2K Help Plan"
• Compaq says major hit in profits is due to y2k and P III
• Effects of "pass through" to consumers of expenses
• Y2K Stocks and Possible Conclusions
• Japan Industries Step Up Y2K Efforts - Government
• ET: Large Moscow bank defaults on debt payment
• Would someone answer this question for me about Y2K ?
• "How Y2K Could Choke Small Business"
• China muzzles Securities Y2K testing results, Taiwan quantifies Y2K economic damage.
• Current Y2K Event: Code Remediation Causes System Crash
• Y2K.. Start of a golden age, or the Slammer Negative TEOTWAWKI Scale
• ET: Expect post-Y2K worst economic hangover in history
• JIT and Y2K?
• Merger Frenzy -- Lemmings Joining Paws as They Jump off the Cliff
• Canadian Small businesses described as y2k Achilles Heel
• Y2k in Japan, question for our resident correspondent PNG
• Question for Ed
• Canadian companies begin cutting off noncompliant suppliers
• Sears has doubts about some critical suppliers
• Gartner: only 8% of failures on Jan. 1  But, are all failures equal??
• making a living
• Need Advice on Consulting
• Fortune 500 and Top twenty SEC reports
• Government raises cost estimate for Y2K problems to 6.8 Billion
• "The Committee can only conclude that, despite claims to the contrary, many companies in the gas and oil industry will not complete Y2K remediation efforts in time." US Senate Committee
• How to approach landlord about no rent in 2000?
• Links in a very weak chain....
• The impact of Y2k breakdowns on foreign trade could devastate the U S economy even if utilities, banks, transportation etc. still function due to
• Panama Canal to close Dec. 31, 1999
• Ed Yardeni Still at 70%
• Yardeni lowers recession risk to 45%? Has the tide turned?
• Low inflation to 2002?
• GM yet to do majority of y2k work
• GM says Y2K will cost $710-780 million
• "Trade Associations Take on Senate's Y2K Report"
• PNG, will you describe Japanese views of gold?
• If nothing had been done (and what does that tell us?)
• Where are all of the jobs?
• Stock Market mania igores cost to fix Y2k, indications of deflation, lower profits, higher interest rates and considers higher unemployment a good sign without recognizing numerous problems in
• Bananas: US & Europe slipping into import/export war, price doubled on certain imports
• need more info for report
• BBC: Brazil in real trouble - currency down 45%
• Y2K Stockpiling May Fuel Economic Growth (Time)
• Anyone know how to make a "still" ...?
• Rebuttal to Ratcliffe critique now posted
• Y2K stockpiling may fuel US GDP late '99, dim 2000
• Asia-Pacific Flights to be cut 66% New Year's eve.
• Demand for US Currency Stable According to Yesterday's Fed. Release
• Paging Ed Yourdon: Any Planned Rebuttal to ZNet's Critique of Your Depression Scenario?
• How dumb are Retailers
• Generac holds huge job fair
• U.S. Trade Deficit in 1998 Was Worst Ever
• What a small accounting firm found out about Y2K
• Y2K Corporate Cutbacks
• jobs
• Programmer Shortage? What Programmer Shortage?
• Y2K Will Impact Developing Countries Most
• y2k Could Worsen Asian Crisis
• US vs. Europe--trade war looming?
• How do you prepare for a Worldwide Depression?
• Close to home
• Have you seen this wicked site?
• Store shuts down in part due to Y2K
• Grocery Store shuts down to avoid costs of remediation
• interesting overview of y2k problems elsewhere and their impact...
• Computer Weekly: UK LOSES RACE WITH Y2K BUG
• Guaranteed Economic Collapse
• America's Economic Perspective with Michael Haga
• 25 years of Budget Surpluses? ha ha haha
• 1930's DEPRESSION--History Question....
• How to assess Fortune 500 compliance + Some Hard Info
• Another look at the credible information
• Is everything we guess about the late 1999 end game wrong
• Resignation at a Fortune 500 company -- Coincidence?
• Dow Jones at a record 9643 -- Unemployment down to 4.3%
• 1.5 million small businesses aren't doing anything at all...
• how LONG b 4 labour ACTUALLY starts to break down ?
• Work That Isn't
• Blood in the Streets
• ABCnews.com story on failure % rates--nation by nation
• Barter: The new (old) economy
• goodby and good luck
• What will you do for a living?
• Motley Fool: Chemical plants closing to avert risks
• Is the chemical industry ready for Y2K?
• Wal-Mart and its "data warehouse"
• Y2K Inventions
• Disallowing Vacations
• Facts and figures on corporate Y2K unpreparedness
• Writer of "The Crash of '99" just now "gets it"
• Y2K jobs available at Twin Cities post office!!
• JIT & GM
• Resignations at IT firm that General Motors depends on
• Need a $6000 Bonus?
• New Citigroup estimate: $800 million to $925 million
• Whither thou Ed Yardeni?
• Y2K Compliance of Principal Trading Partners
• Capitalism, education, reconstruction and Fort Cicero
• % of Companies, by country, to have mission-critical failures
• General Electric's Unrealistic Goal
• why is a railroad hiring 6,500 new personnel?
• Fortune 500 Companies and the Jo Anne Effect
• Think Globally
• Home Depot and Lowe's in January of 1999
• Bank of America within inches of collapse?
• How will unprepared nations impact us?
• Accounting, bookkeeping software in January 1999?
• Where were you when Rome burnt
• a prediction of economic collapse
• Notes from a Y2K presentation/Y2K job prospects.
• Kiss the 125% mortgage goodbye.
• where is the econmy headed?????
• Small Business Administration report
• Safire in NYTimes: "Globalony Crisis"
• John Kenneth Galbraith in NYTimes OP-ED
• Employable skill sets in 2000 and beyond?
• We may be overlooking something in economic terms
• The World ends here?
• Economists come to "Consensus"
• Making money from Y2K AFTERWARDS
• What about the day AFTER tomorrow?
• fate of electronic publishing firm
• The effects of all of this being felt already
• Is Russia9s collapse a look at the future?
• Abacus operators needed. Apply within.
• Business transference in/before y2k
• delayed fed rate cute due to Y2K
• Where are the Y2K jobs?!
• Recession
• Tidal Wave
• Currency conversions tied to the us dollar
• A Shortage of Programmers?
• Business Owners - Please Provide Opinion
• New Business Venture
• What would have happened if your company had not fixed y2k
• Relocation/employment
• Fiscal Year 2000 Problems
• Let's look at some possible scenarios
• What about taking classes on cobol
• How Do We Bounce Back?
• Y2K job opputunities today 05/98
• Wealth after y2k
• How Long Will Wall Street Ignore Y2K?
• Yardeni is up to 60% now
• ADVANCE WARNING SIGNALS RECESSION
• CH02 (Economy/Jobs) question from author