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In the Philippines, you can get workers for call centers for $2-5/day - not per hour. They speak good English.

I have friends with nursing degree cannot find nursing jobs, it has been a year since one friend was state certified. Hospitals import nurses with experience from Philippines or So Africa.

http://www.sott.net/articles/show/221255-Even-The-Troops-Are-Waking-Up

I hear on Bloomberg today that Wikileaks is delaying leaking its dirt on Bank OF America due to funding cut off. http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BH13020101218

Very true. The contract agency and middleman take huge cuts.

There will always be some jobs, but fewer workers will be needed here. The older ones will be first to be let go if they aren't burned out by the long hours after a decade or two. Defense sector jobs cannot go away for those lucky enough to get security clearance. It seems age is less an...

This does not include work that has disappeared via eLance and uBid. Many of bidders may appear local to the Western nations, but the real work is really done by an offshore team. They have a local presence or a super-star fronting the back office work in India, Brazil and elsewhere.

more news today: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jmM9XTNCHNfN0GhxB2EVpNiobfqg?docId=bad9bc6c45de484ab66b014f6c9a8905

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,14758284,00.html

10% only, what a joke. Here is some charts for how is counted. http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2011/01/employment-chart-festival/

Quite often fx have sudden big moves and am trying to figure out what news might be moving it. My trading buddy suggested that a fx chat room may help. I would very much appreciate a free chat room where traders discuss news and info. Any such chat place for forex traders. Thanks in advance.

How the US let al-Qaida get its hands on an Iraqi weapons factory http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/07/iraq-weapons-factory-al-qaida-us-failure The economics of War. Who is making money here?

Here is a better idea: Become a Special Needs teacher for the mentally challenged. You won't need to know how to read or write as you will be teaching kids who aren't going to read or write. You will have a secure union job and taxpayers will be forced to pay for your living.

When food prices are too high, politicians will tell their poor folk the long-term health benefits of long-term fasting. Better yet, how long-term fasting is a penance that helps them get to heaven.

http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/12/china-hikes-rates-ponders-capital.html http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2010/10/misguided-love-affair-with-china-chinas.html I came across quite a bit of troubling info on the Chinese economy lately. Any comments?

Don't just sit in front of the screen .... http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/video/2011/jan/06/health-and-wellbeing-fitness?CMP=NECNETTXT766

A major Islamic set permits temporary marriage from 3 hrs to 99 years. All u need is marriage contract, a bride price and 2 qualified witness (male over 21). Instead of going to a hooker, u take a temporary wife. Much more respectable.

Well said. It is easy for the young and the fortunate to be callous. Benanke is confiscating by reducing the value of what u have worked for by printing more and more. When what u had saved buys less and less, it is like confiscation by the issuer of the fiat currency. I see too many ex-IT...

If u are over 55 and employed in some exec or government position, good for u. I am not saying opportunities don't exist at all, but if u had been out a year or two, getting a decent job is like winning a lottery at my age. If u have not been job hunting, u don't know what it is like out...

Thanks for stating this. It is bad enough that my non-trader friends trying to push me off my efforts to trade better by suggesting "go back to school" and all kinds of almost non-existent "opportunities" for over 55 folks. What I am surprised is that very few on this board actually encourage me...