Judy Stark, the Homes and Garden editor for the St. Petersburg Times, writes that it is a “sign of the times” when a local county-sponsored workshop on vegetable gardening has suddenly hit the 200-person capacity of the room.
August 19th, 2008 | Mogambo Guru | 0 comments | ContinuedAll Posts Tagged With: "unemployment"
U.S. Government Hiding True Unemployment Rate in Statistics
The new U.S. unemployment numbers came out, and right off the bat I see that the Civil Labor Force went up by 173,000 and the number of Employed went up by 360,000, but Non-Farm Payrolls went down by 20,000.
May 13th, 2008 | Mogambo Guru | 1 comment | Continued
Waiting in Line is the World’s Most Popular Activity
People love lines. In Russia, before they abandoned communism, if people saw a line forming, they’d get in it… figuring that there must be bread or cucumbers, or maybe a list where they could sign up to buy a car, at the other end. In Paris and London, people wait in line to get into nightclubs.
April 21st, 2008 | Bill Bonner | 1 comment | Continued