Its not surprising that certain Retailers have gains.  WAKE UP!!! THEY HAVE STORES IN CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES OVERSEAS THAT ACTUALLY HAVE A THRIVING MIDDLE CLASS THAT SPENDS MONEY.  Its unfair to misrepresent info that suggests that Americans are spending, we are not.  Tourism  is way up.  We have lots of visitors fr...more

To Tumbleweed 1946 Are you kidding?  Its happening already.  There are loads of modeling jobs in India and Brazil right now.  Large cosmetic firms here in the US  are hiring Indian and Brazilian models for ad campaigns to sell to markets over there.  We are no longer the marketplace.  Its China, India and Brazil.  Eve...more

To Responder 10 I agree 100%.  Enough Please doesn't have a clue as to what is going on.  When he tries to make a plane reservation the flights are full because there are less flights, not because people have money.  Airlines are funny about not letting planes take off half full.

To Tumbleweed 1946 Funny

To Enough Please: Everyone can't be in the Healthcare Field!!  Years ago the media reports were telling everyone to be Teachers.  There is a shortage of teachers.  Then there were too many teachers.  I was a high level executive for one of the largest companies in the US.  I won't mention which, but we began outsourci...more

I think the handwriting is on the wall.  By this time next year there will be so many people on entitlement programs, the government will finally WAKE UP and realize that IT needs to put the people back to work like FDR did  in my grandparents day with the WPA PROGRAM and stop relying on the private sector.  The govern...more