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- 24% of Small Businesses Not Hiring Because They May Not Be In Business a Year From Now; 76% Simply Don't Need More Employees
- Farage: Globalist Troika Driving Greece Towards Violent Revolution; Godfrey Bloom calls Eurobonds "Pathway to Hell" like Subprime Mortgages
- Obama Wants Cheaper Pennies and Nickels; Why Not Do Away With Both?
- Euro Area Q4 'Flash' GDP at -0.3% q/q, First Negative Reading Since Q2 2009
Posted: 15 Feb 2012 05:43 PM PST The question of the day is "Why Aren't Small Businesses Hiring?" Most of the answers should be obvious, but let's take a look at a recent Gallup Poll on Hiring to confirm. 85% of those surveyed -- are most likely to say the reasons they are not doing so include not needing additional employees; worries about weak business conditions, including revenues; cash flow; and the overall U.S. economy. Additionally, nearly half of small-business owners point to potential healthcare costs (48%) and government regulations (46%) as reasons. One in four are not hiring because they worry they may not be in business in 12 months.Negative Surprises That 76% have no need for more employees is not at all surprising. Who wants to hire in this environment? Healthcare costs are a genuine concern. We have heard that story time and time again. That nearly half cite healthcare costs should not be surprising. One number however, did stand out. Edge of a Precipice That 24% cannot and will not hire because they fear going out of business within a year says quite a lot. Bear in mind this is in spite of the fact that "economic confidence is approaching its highest levels in the last four years. U.S. small-business owners are also about as optimistic about their business and their future hiring as they've been at any point during that time." This economy is on the edge of a precipice and few see it. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List |
Posted: 15 Feb 2012 08:48 AM PST European parliament member Nigel Farage blames Troika for the violence and destruction in Greece. Link if video does not play: Farage: Globalist Troika Driving Greece Towards Violent Revolution "Violence and destruction in Greece that you saw on Sunday is being caused directly because people have had their democratic rights taken from them. What else can they do? If I was a Greek citizen I would have been out there joining those protests. I would be out there trying to bring down this monstrosity that has been put upon those people. .... Greece being driven into the ground and quite frankly when it comes to chaos, you ain't seen nothing yet." Money-Printing, Central Banking Scammers Belong in Prison Godfrey Bloom, member of European parliament compares Eurobonds to subprime debt and a pathway to hell. Link if video does not play: Money-Printing, Central Banking Scammers Belong in Prison Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List |
Obama Wants Cheaper Pennies and Nickels; Why Not Do Away With Both? Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:54 AM PST Thanks to the Fed, pennies and nickels are now nearly worthless, except en masse, and except for the metal content of them (at least for now). Please consider Obama wants cheaper pennies and nickels. The U.S. Mint is facing a problem -- especially during these penny-pinching times. It turns out it costs more to make pennies and nickels than the coins are worth.Pennies are a nuisance and to a lesser degree, so are nickels. Rounding up every transaction to the nearest nickel or dime should be easy enough, and there is no legitimate reason to not do precisely that. There would be a step-up in productivity if people did not have to deal with the damn things. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List |
Euro Area Q4 'Flash' GDP at -0.3% q/q, First Negative Reading Since Q2 2009 Posted: 15 Feb 2012 07:15 AM PST Via email from Barclays Capital : Euro Area Q4 'Flash' GDP at -0.3% Quarter Over Quarter Eurostat has estimated that euro area GDP contracted by 0.3% q/q in Q4 in its "flash" form (BC & consensus: -0.4% q/q). This is the first negative reading since Q2 09 (-0.2% q/q), and the most negative since Q1 09 (-2.7% q/q).Contracting Economies Germany, Spain, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, Austria, [Portugal and Greece]. Not Contracting Yet Economies Finland, France Europe is clearly in recession and that recession will accelerate to the downside as various austerity measures and tax hikes kick in. As I said yesterday in EU to Punish Spain for Delaying Austerity Measures; European Job Losses Accelerate ... Signs point to a deep and lengthy recession, not the shallow recession forecast by economists. I seriously wonder what the heck they are looking at. Mike "Mish" Shedlock http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com Click Here To Scroll Thru My Recent Post List |
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