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2009-01-17 Arabia

Arabs lost 2.5 trillion in credit crunch

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Posted by Fred 2009-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11137 views ] Top

#1 Trilyuhns and Zilyuhns and Qilyuhns and......

Posted by JosephMendiola 2009-01-17 01:19|| 2009-01-17 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 That's the first good news coming out of this whole financial mess.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-01-17 01:57|| 2009-01-17 01:57|| Front Page Top

#3 No worry, Obamaland will repay it with intrest.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2009-01-17 06:26|| 2009-01-17 06:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Seeing that the world is heading down the Zimbabwe Keynesian path, I think its about time that some order was brought into the use of Long Scales and Short Scales. I'm assuming the trillions in this article are Short Scale.

Posted by tipper 2009-01-17 09:13|| 2009-01-17 09:13|| Front Page Top

#5 Hot damn. Our hearts pump purple piss in their behalf. Mebbe Allan is upset with the current batch of half-asses.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2009-01-17 12:56|| 2009-01-17 12:56|| Front Page Top

#6 Or they will use the remaining money to buy out what's left of our corporate base at 20 cents on the dollar.

Posted by ed 2009-01-17 14:09|| 2009-01-17 14:09|| Front Page Top

#7 Manufacturing base Ed... you're off message.

Posted by .5MT 2009-01-17 19:27|| www.cybernations.net]">[www.cybernations.net] 2009-01-17 19:27|| Front Page Top

#8 I sincerely believe that the only healthy economies are those with a large industrial base.

Our "service based" "consumer driven" economy is a mess. We've driven most of our hard smoke stack industry out of the US and all we have left is a bunch of drones shuffling paper.

The only real manufacturing we do these days is automobiles and construction. Everything else is paper.

Why do we paper pencil necks with MBA shuffling meaningless piles of paper, playing with other peoples money more than we pay architects, engineers, doctors or teachers?

Posted by James Carville 2009-01-17 20:17|| 2009-01-17 20:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Financial and tech are going at fire sale prices .5MT. Not much manufacturing there.

Posted by ed 2009-01-17 22:06|| 2009-01-17 22:06|| Front Page Top

#10 Wait till you see what happens to China and then tell me how much you want manufacturing. And there is a fair amount left. Just not the low paying jobs.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-01-17 22:17|| 2009-01-17 22:17|| Front Page Top

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