Global Economy Bursting?

[Workbox]

Can you imagine anything dumber than going to college so that you can become a residential appraiser?

You just jolted a whole bunch of appraisers. m2: :laugh:

 

[Randolph Kinney]

I didn't miss a thing. Everybody like to hire celebrities to help sell their products. Just because the Ferrari salesman says it is a great car and can give you easy financing does not make it a great purchase. The value of a college degree is directly related to the intelligence of the person obtaining the degree, and inversely related to the money paid by that person. If you can't get at least a partial scholarship to a university, you are either going to the wrong school or should not go at all.

Can you imagine anything dumber than going to college so that you can become a residential appraiser?

Hmmm ... two years of college or associate degree for certified residential ... if one could get the required experience hours, maybe.

But as you say, it is best that one investigate before one invests or borrows money. Just having the necessary courses won't get the license with out someone to train you.

So many jobs ... so many applicants, with and with out degrees.

 

[Dee Dee]

Can you imagine anything dumber than going to college so that you can become a residential appraiser?

I think that earned my vote for quote of the week. :icon_lol:

 

[Randolph Kinney]

Your well-paid, middle-class job is in danger

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/your-well-paid-middle-class-job-is-in-danger-2011-06-16

A lot of traditional middle-class, upper-middle-class jobs have been disappearing. If you look at general managers and middle-management jobs, those are ones that have been in decline and will decline further. Workers making about $40,000 to $80,000 a year constitute the bulk of labor costs for many companies, and these workers will be on the chopping block.

Companies are finding ways to reduce the number of people in those areas, and change the jobs to make them more simple, to reduce the skill that is required.

Outsourcing all those college degreed people becomes the driving force to cut cost.A lot of medical diagnostic work will be done overseas. You can have the initial diagnostic done elsewhere, and have a domestic supervising physician. Medical costs are a huge issue, and there’s enormous incentive to find ways to reduce these costs. The internationalization of medical services will be one of the important ways that costs will potentially be slowed.

Outsourcing all those college degreed people becomes the driving force to cut cost.

 

[JSmith43]

Outsourcing all those college degreed people becomes the driving force to cut cost.

I see initial medical screenings at Kiosks at the mall. Exam stations may look like those old fashioned photo booths that new lovers would sit in to get their photos taken, since if they asked their friends to do it many would just gag.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Kiosk based appointments linked to call centers with medical technicians to assist with a mostly automated trouble shooting program & a possible doctor two on duty. I'm not sure how the Kiosks will stay sanitary. UV light?:laugh:

The first ones may be next to the drop in clinic at Wal-Mart by the blood pressure chair & the Dr Scholls foot analyzer

 

[Big ole Boy]

. I'm not sure how the Kiosks will stay sanitary. .)

... I wonder if the TSA will ever have a Kiosk for 95 year old ladies with diapers ...?

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[Big ole Boy]

To default or not to default - that is the question

have we not already defaulted? - surely we have

... all that is playing out in Washington is the slow rythmic dance of letting the world slowly, gently know that the sovereingty of the consumer has come to its end ....

... the full tank of gas and 3 meals a day with snacks in between .....

... is a thing of the past ...

... surely we have to consider that whatever we think God is ....

... is something more than a sustainer that keeps flesh on the bones of a good capitalist

... surely the balancing agent is a good shrinking of

... material and an increasing in spirit?

 

[Workbox]

OK folks we touched 1340 on the SPX. This might be its highest point, if not, we will be testing slightly higher ranges, but eitherway we have reached a maximum. From this point on it is the beginning of our next big correction. We will pull back and swing back up going sideways, but then it will become evident that there is a ROT in Wall Street. I have already started loading up on VXX to go long and reviewing some shorts. But right now will play the swing trades.

Not getting rich, but anticipate to be in a good position for the long haul. Any one know the price of scrap metal just in case? :icon_mrgreen:

 

[Austin]

Any one know the price of scrap metal just in case?

I don't know the price of scrap metal but believe it or not I have some in my portfolio. Scrap metal, timber, orchard, vineyards, fish, berries... one never knows. Picking blackberries today. Corn too for dinner. From here on out it is every man for himself.

 

[DTB]

I see initial medical screenings at Kiosks at the mall. Exam stations may look like those old fashioned photo booths that new lovers would sit in to get their photos taken, since if they asked their friends to do it many would just gag.

It wouldn't surprise me to see Kiosk based appointments linked to call centers with medical technicians to assist with a mostly automated trouble shooting program & a possible doctor two on duty. I'm not sure how the Kiosks will stay sanitary. UV light?:laugh:

The first ones may be next to the drop in clinic at Wal-Mart by the blood pressure chair & the Dr Scholls foot analyzer

I know a guy down in Hotlanta that's investing 7 figures in some medical startup. The premise, as I understand, is some type of web based remote diagnosis and treatment. It will link outlying medical centers to the very best specialists across many fields. Sounded interesting at least.