I’m going to try to convey a situation that is playing on the periphery of my life because it poses a meaty question. If I try to outline the whole thing this will be a really long post so I’ll have to ask that assumptions my husband and I have made be taken as facts.

Continue reading Reading The Writing On The Wall vs Ignoring It

This is a 2011 topic for the Colosseum but I want to at least flirt with some of this stuff at large, risky as it may be.

It’s my contention that all the fake stuff we thought we saw when Jupiter was conjunct Neptune is going to fall now, or erase. The veil will drop, the backlash will arrive, reality will emerge, etc.

Reality is pretty gross when you look at it in comparison what you can see with your rose-colored classes. But it you compare reality to reality it neutralizes it.

Continue reading Reality Check 2011 – The Economy And Various Other Sundries

From April 2009. Deserves a rerun because I have something to add.

I have T-Mobile as a carrier for my cell phone. The last time I replaced my phone I paid full price rather than extend my contract.

I have been happy with them. They have that @home service which allows unlimited calls at from home or other T-Mobile hotspots for $10 additional a month so it’s been a very good deal but I got an even better deal.
Continue reading Frugal Tips For A Bad Economy… Please Contribute

It occurred to me that people may begin to speak freely when Saturn leaves Virgo.  I was momentarily relieved before I realized I would not be one of them considering Saturn will transiting my 9th towards conjunction with Mercury.  I am going to have to continue to watch my mouth for sure however I do feel like making some remarks about this opposition.

I was reading the comments on some news site, I really don’t remember which one but someone wrote that  he has ceased traveling to what he considered to be the liberal states.  This hit me hard because I believe the guy.  People are so disgusted with the other side (in both directions) they simply do not want to fraternize with them at all.

Continue reading Saturn’s Last Gasp In Virgo, The Opposition To Uranus And The Polarization Of Society

Re-posting this with an update because 81 banks have failed this year and analysts say 150-200 more will probably fail.
About the failing banks, mine (Netbank) failed in 2007. I was with Netbank for about 9 years and one day I signed on and was gone. As soon as I saw the (government) notice, I knew two things:
Continue reading Speaking Of Failed Banks, Mine (Netbank) Failed In 2007: Business, Banking, And Predicting The Rescession – Update in 2009

I’m sorry to be morose but this blog has always been about what I see and experience on a daily basis. At the moment I watching my city die.  Not a week goes by that I don’t find myself confronted with yet another, “going out of business sale”.
Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn: Watching Business Die

From the Financial Times: Men bear the brunt of US jobs lost

Sarah O’Connor writes:

“The US recession has opened up the biggest gap between male and female unemployment rates since records began in 1948, as men bear the brunt of the economy’s contraction.

Men have lost almost 80 per cent of the 5.1m jobs that have gone in the US since the recession started, pushing the male unemployment rate to 8.8 per cent. The female jobless rate has hit 7 per cent.”

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Continue reading Men Bear The Brunt Of US Jobs Lost: What Does It Mean?

mudlikesubstance writes on Pluto in Capricorn – Business Closing…

“I’m not seeing it in my neighborhood or nearby but the outer subburbs are closing up shop like no-body’s business – bye bye strip malls.”

Today I had to get a book for Vid and as we drove to the local Barnes and Noble I realized the days I may be able to do this are probably numbered and if so this will be a sorry situation. This was the scenario:
Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn – The Real Effect Of Local Business Collapsing

This morning I called Sportsman’s Warehouse to see what time they opened because the soldier wanted me to pick something up there. The phone picked up and there was a recorded message, “Come to our store closing sale…”

We lost a circuit city, we lost 2 grocery stores, and too many small businesses around here to count.
Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn: Another Business Shut Down ‘Round Here

By now you know I’ve got my eye on the growing black market. This news came to me, it’s separate but related I guess you could say.

Included in the stimulus package is incentive for a specific industry to hire new workers. To be eligible for the government money the business has to hire someone new and employ them for 90 days.

The stimulus will also pay to train the person so they are gearing up for this as well and while it appears this is an on ramp to employment it is anything but.
Continue reading Pluto In Capricorn: The Stimulus Package And The Shadow Side Of Business