Who's next?
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Started by cliff-e - June 15, 2019, 7:19 a.m.

Another sign of a slowdown but I hope they don't close any more checkout lanes. :~/

http://www.bizjournals.com/charlotte/news/2019/06/14/walmart-laying-off-nearly-600employees-in.html

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Re: Who's next?
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By TimNew - June 15, 2019, 7:28 a.m.
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For those of us who lack your economic expertise, please explain how outsourcing office work is a sign of a slowdown.

TIA.

By metmike - June 15, 2019, 1:11 p.m.
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cliff,

Judging from your almost 100% negative posts, I think that you only missed living in an era that you would have really loved,  by 2 generations )-:


"The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world"

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/great-depression-history

Dust Bowl

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dust_Bowl


 

A farmer and his two sons during a dust storm in Cimarron County, Oklahoma, April 1936. Iconic photo taken by Arthur Rothstein.

The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s. 


 

A dust storm approaches Stratford, Texas, in 1935.


Just think of the great climate change narratives you would have been able to come up with  

By silverspiker - June 16, 2019, 3:42 a.m.
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..... And embarassingly enough .... Herbert Hoover, West Branch , IOWA  was the worst Economic President  in history, who raised taxes during a depression ....