They have already been moving there for years! Look at some of your high end clothes and you will see Honduras, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Ecuador, etc. These areas are going to be the next Indonesia and Philippines of today, and Africa is in it's birth of cheap labor exploitation as well. Why are the French get...more

Answer:  Because YOU, the people, wont ever do anything about, so WE (Congress), don't really give a what! "When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." ~ Thomas Jefferson

Apple is not at the moment just yet, but the truism of these scenarios should serve as a reminder to all investors that nothing is indefinite.  As Evil Chris pointed out, Apple is moving toward a maintenance (instead of innovative) mode, but as the source of this story (Schatz) alluded at, this is just part of the cycl...more

Wish they would, Tom.  But, Florida will band wagon in once 20 or so other states successfully act on legalization and taxation!!!  Florida is still too much of a mess politically to be on the front-end of this movement!

The goods you list are not coming back!  When will some of you people learn, I love the ignorant regurgitated response of "shopping at X only supports the Chinese or Y country", so what!  Once again, these product are NEVER coming back.  Do you have any idea on how little of wages and benefits employees would have to w...more

PRIMERICA -LOL! I didn't even know they were still around! I worked for them for like 3 months out of college many years ago.  Nothing like the old life insurance prosperity pyramid schemes...too funny!   Thanks for the flashback!

It's always been an estimate!  It's the same method they've been using for over 30 years, so the way in which the UE rate is measured is still the same then it hold some value.  If you believed at any point in the last 30 years that the rate was real and/or good, then by that logic this number is the SAME!

Right on, agreed!

Republicans made a bad call on the Tea Party and social issues (which shouldn't matter in the year of 2012) -- splitting their (my old) party into several segments that all want some different.  They can't concentrate on building and resurrecting true conservatism.  Who does the Republicans have as a good representatio...more