I wonder if this is a sign of despotism:

Apparently the National Bureau of Economic Research, which is the official group that declares when a recession starts and ends, has decided that the only factor in determining a recession is how well companies are doing, not how well people are doing.

its funny, when you see old black and white movies about recessions, there are usually lots of people having trouble getting by. Its a good thing there are all these thriving businesses now, cause that means that mean ol recession ended way back in 2001.

Academics declare recession ended in 2001

I just read that the symbolic 100 settlements that Israel removed from Palestine were more symbolic that I thought… It seams they just removed them, and then built them else where, all except for one. So the total number of settlements removed is a whopping 1:

Washington’s call for removal of additional illegal outposts is intended to widen the scope of Israeli gestures to the Abbas government beyond expected prisoner releases. The Americans have told the Israel that on balance, a total of one outpost has been removed, taking into account new outposts erected after each old ones were evacuated.

Of course, as we’ve discussed here before, I didn’t see this on an american news site. No, not on the BBC either, or some crazy A-rab news site. It was on none other than Haaretz, an Israeli news site. Its actually a pretty good site, if you want a good balance of articles that don’t lean too far either way.

…will take care of it.

So as an unemployed person, i read this article.

It doesn’t look good any time soon.

The best part of this job search process. Is hearing the headhunters bitch about how hard it it to please their clients. Basically companies are treating interviewees and headhunters like total shit.

I could go all political on this, and rant about how if Markets should be free (NAFTA, et all) How come Labor Markets aren’t free?

but i’ll just leave that to you to ponder.