Bar;

I agree, and if we stay away from more bailouts, we should see correction followed by the conservative estimates.

The Prime Market impending meltdown in Europe may bode very well for the dollar. Seems to be be providing moderate short term strength.

I agree the market is very complex these day.

Buy Uranium.

 

HA!! NOT GONNA HAPPEN, I just turned 29 a week ago! I'm inching up on 30 and its scary!!

I'd be excited to upgrade by 35 though

 

I heard today one of the holdups with the Delta/US Air slot swap is that JetBlue is objecting to it. They want to get into DCA and maybe see this as their way in.

Denny

 

Yep, that amount to it. I say you want it buy LCC.

 

I hate to pee on your Wheaties, but I just don't see the economy doing as well as you ACL. They just admitted to 850,000 more jobs lost last year than reported. The tax increases for next year will suck out any additional capital any recovery will produce. Freddy and Fannie will require ginormous bailouts soon. Real unemployment is 16% We lost almost 10 million jobs last year.
The budget battle coming is the true test. If that passes as submitted it is nothing less than the destruction of the United States as a free capitalist nation. It will spend money we will never have. There is a parallel to our government and our company. Both are saddled with huge amounts of debt. One is prudently trying to pay it down, reducing spending, not shopping for new shiny things to buy, and doing everything to raise more revenue for the long term. One is doing just the opposite.

When RA leaves, I've got an idea what his next job should be...

 

Denny,
Where did you come across that information?

 

I have to agree with Satch. Rick Santelli on CNBC this morning said there is a lot of manipulation with these numbers and that the rate should be around 10.6%, 18% if you count those who stopped looking and 92% if you combine the other two with the number of people who waste time on Facebook at work. Okay I added the 92% thanks to a joke from the Comedy Channel.

At best the 9.7% is an updated rosy picture of the current unemployment. At best. I think I'll put it with those GDP numbers that keep getting revised downwards after the initial headliner gets put out of GDP "RISE" or unemployment "DROPS!". I hope it is improving or at the least settling but I'm not holding my breath that the closed society in DC will get it right.

As John Adams said one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm, and three or more is a congress.

 

Everybody on res has been hoping for a while now....

 

I didn't know they were hiring, last I heard they were talking about layoffs.

 

If training capacity is the bottleneck, why not contract some training out to UAL & AMR?