Winterclaw opened this issue on Feb 15, 2009 · 73 posts
ockham posted Sun, 15 February 2009 at 5:32 PM
In any downturn, some areas and some occupations hold steady or even go up.
The media are frantic about this one because it mainly affects NYC and Wall Street,
thus it affected their own NYC lives.
The real problem is the gradual loss of manufacturing to other countries ... which
has been going on for 20 years while the media paid no attention to it. Auto workers
have been losing jobs for a long time without making any news.