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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:35 PM Original message |
Bernanke: "The service sector of our economy is about 80%"... |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
1. I'm not so sure that this is true, but . . . |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:39 PM Response to Reply #1 |
7. We could start by not giving huge tax breaks to companies |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. We make the best damned guitars on the planet. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:38 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Sorry, I'd rather buy Japanese these days. -nt- |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:41 PM Response to Reply #5 |
11. Fffflfllbblllxxgggzzssspptttt. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #11 |
15. Actually, I haven't bought a new guitar in a long time, and I know you can't legitimately... |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:56 PM Response to Reply #15 |
22. They run the gamut. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 07:02 AM Response to Reply #15 |
47. I bought a MIJ Fender Mustang bass last night at Guitar Center. nt |
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girl gone mad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 03:19 PM Response to Reply #11 |
33. My Fender precision bass.. |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 07:02 AM Response to Reply #33 |
48. The Aerodynes are middle of the road. Not as nice as the American P Bass. nt |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:46 PM Response to Reply #2 |
14. Hamer. Made right down the street from where I live. n/t |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 07:03 AM Response to Reply #14 |
49. Hamer has been owned by a German company for years, and makes most of its stuff in China. nt |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #2 |
18. My favorite U.S. made is All-Clad pots and pans. |
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pamela (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 07:06 PM Response to Reply #2 |
45. Yep! Paul Reed Smith! |
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Romulox (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 07:04 AM Response to Reply #2 |
50. Other than Martin, I can't agree with you. Fender is OK; Gibson is crap. nt |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
3. The DOW has lost 100 points while he's been talking. |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:54 PM Response to Reply #3 |
21. -350 now. n/t |
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TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:09 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. It appears the FED is not going to juice the DOW again with a rate decrease. |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:12 PM Response to Reply #25 |
26. Nope. No rate cut. Which was actually priced in to yesterday's action. n/t |
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MercutioATC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
4. We "manufacture" a lot of Big Macs... |
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Cessna Invesco Palin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
6. We're the largest manufacturer in the world. |
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DJ13 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
8. .....so Mr. Bernanke, who's fault is that? |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:39 PM Response to Original message |
9. What's wrong with a service economy? |
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RB TexLa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:45 PM Response to Reply #9 |
13. It's not important to have it, growth of manufacturing is no more important that growth of any other |
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Subdivisions (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:53 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. If we do not manufacture stuff, we don't get the money from |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:02 PM Response to Reply #19 |
23. I guess what I don't understand is that people predicting the next depression... |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 04:40 PM Response to Reply #23 |
36. People were NOT uneducated in the thirties |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:47 PM Response to Reply #36 |
40. I didn't say they were dumb. I said they were uneducated. |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 10:20 AM Response to Reply #40 |
51. Farmers were well equipped to learn the jobs of the WPA. |
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Cary (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:48 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. Employment. n/t. |
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hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:52 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Food, shelter, medicine, education. |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:04 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. Balance of trade. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:15 PM Response to Reply #24 |
27. Thanks for the explanation. That makes some sense. |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:37 PM Response to Reply #27 |
31. Well, by definition a depression is a massive slowing of economic activity |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
28. A country that doesn't *make* anything does not control it's own destiny |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:26 PM Response to Reply #9 |
30. You can't buy 75% of the world's manufacture goods when you have no foreign exchange |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:36 PM Response to Reply #9 |
39. When you CONSUME what you don't PRODUCE, you're going into debt to do it. |
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ContinentalOp (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:48 PM Response to Reply #39 |
41. But in a depression, that change would come about automatically, out of necessity would it not? |
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TahitiNut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 06:26 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. How do you get out of it without producing your own ladders?? |
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Lost-in-FL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:41 PM Response to Original message |
10. Basic economics |
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daa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:43 PM Response to Original message |
12. Unfortunately |
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gasperc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
20. fuck it, I'm going to photo copy my own money |
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Leopolds Ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 01:20 PM Response to Original message |
29. Don't worry -- according to DLC and millionaire so-called-liberal pundits, those jobs aren't worth |
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femrap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 03:08 PM Response to Original message |
32. WASF |
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dysfunctional press (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. we still make some kick-ass street-sweepers here in elgin illinois... |
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SoCalDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
35. While we were sleeping, everything changed, and now that we are "awake" |
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onethatcares (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:12 PM Response to Original message |
37. yeah, remember when that was the pronouncement? |
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PA Democrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
38. Anyone ever read Kevin Phillips' book "Wealth and Democracy"? |
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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
43. Point taken, but don't exaggerate |
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itsrobert (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-07-08 06:56 PM Response to Original message |
44. We should manufacture solar |
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OakCliffDem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-08-08 05:48 AM Response to Original message |
46. Kick |
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