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[+] serious ballot by Kev24

it's not like i haven't said this before but this time i hesitated. don't stone the messenger here. but, there are some movers and shakers that are whispering the recent "crisis" in the financial markets was milked for everthing it's worth.

mature markets like europe and the usa were at a cross roads. too big and inflexible. a leviathan. so how do you shake it up and start from scratch? bring it to the brink.

check this out -

Wal-Mart Stores Inc.'s worldwide quest for a lower-cost sleeping bag has led to a one-story factory in northwest Alabama, where Chris Defoor has a new job.

The same forces that have sent thousands of American jobs overseas are now giving a lift to places like Haleyville, a town of 4,200 where Defoor is in his fourth month working at Exxel Outdoors Inc.

With costs in Alabama running 3 percent below those in China, Exxel is cutting production at a joint venture in Shanghai while hiring workers, adding machines and increasing output at the 250,000 square-foot plant. This year, for the first time, the company will make more bags in the U.S. than abroad.

``We'd been losing the battle to China but had a feeling things were going to change,'' founder and chief executive officer Harry Kazazian said. ``Call it a calculated gamble or hindsight, it's working for us.''


don't dismiss what i'm saying without giving it some thought. when your life gets crazy and hectic and you have too much stuff, you clean house -- you go minimalist. just saying.

hmmm, interesting. sounds possible
i don't think so
could be
yo! read my comment you putz!
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What is with this site and it's conspiracy nuts?

entered by : ClosetIguana
Submitted on : Oct 14,2008 1:42:59 pm

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I have no idea


Voted : hmmm, interesting. sounds possible
I believe there's more to this than meets the eye, the timing, the dire warnings, the "fear factor", I get a feeling of "deja vu" in reference to this "modus operandi"
***see ballot #130564***

that was sort of the concensus on the street here in ny. almost too tidy. too planned. too everything. who knows. but these are not peeps prone to these kinds of whispers. besides it's been a long held idea that to remake it, you have to break it down. vehy interresting indeed.
checked out your ballot. i don't think it was a plan to fleece the people at all. if anything it was to make western markets more competitive and to show the up and comers that their growth could be derailed at any time. totaly don't think it was a transfer of wealth. i do think that what the insiders believe is correct -- it was too big, too cumbersome, too complicated. more along those lines.
Voted : hmmm, interesting. sounds possible
Anything is within the realm of possibility, especially where the Almighty Dollar is involved.
heres more of the story -

Rising Revenue
Kazazian's strategy is a result of the dollar's 17 percent drop against the yuan since 2005, rising wages in China and a jump in freight rates. He projects his company's revenue will rise as much as 20 percent this year to $42 million from $35 million in 2007, helped by the Wal-Mart order last December for Disney-themed kids' sleeping bags.

The need to cut costs means manufacturers large and small ``are revisiting their outsourcing policy,'' said Norbert Ore, chairman of the manufacturing-survey committee at the Institute for Supply Management in Tempe, Arizona.

Ikea, the world's largest home-furnishings company, opened its first U.S. factory in May. Caterpillar Inc., the world's largest maker of earth-moving equipment, and Home Depot Inc., the biggest home-improvement retailer, plan to produce or buy more goods in the U.S.

Returning Jobs
Such moves are ``a positive for employment and certainly a plus for manufacturing, because those are the kind of jobs that would return,'' said Michael Moran, chief economist at Daiwa Securities America Inc. in New York.


Voted : yo! read my comment you putz!
What is with this site and it's conspiracy nuts?
Instead of thinking something is a conspiracy maybe try considering incompetence. Same goes with 9/11, Iraq, not catching bin Ladin etc etc.
wow, it cost less to produce in alabama than in china??

I was reading newspaper in alabama, and it was all about how their economy is growing despite all the recession talk, for like 10 years in a row. I guess now I know why.
by LCD [+]

conspiracy maybe. but I guarantee that some, like momentum/volatility traders, along with people with Bush-inside information walked away with billions last month.
by LCD [+]

The last thing the republican party wants in a economic meltdown. Just look at the polls.
The last thing the republican party wants is a economic meltdown. Just look at the polls.
hey cloest, i'm not thinking this is a conspiracy. i'm basing this on actual talk in financial circles. you know, like as someone in what you could call the true inner circle. know what i mean? so instead of dismissing this as a conspiracy theory maybe realize that there are people who get their information from sources other than cnn.
and if you read what i wrote closet you'd see that i said europe and the usa. besides if you were in the know then you'd be aware that in the arena of international trade and finanace, there are no political parties. you should know that.
It was only last week when you posted that it's possible this thing was created by the government. Had a change of heart?
My post:"INVENT a crisis"? How do you "invent" banks and investment firms going belly-up?

Your post:
not as hard as you think closet. there's true invention and then there's is massive manipulation. when you're the government and you can create the news, who is to question you? i assume you know how volitile markets are. things spread like a shock wave.

^ uhh yeah and? where did i use the word invent? read dude before you jump all over things. what i wrote was --

"but, there are some movers and shakers that are whispering the recent "crisis" in the financial markets was milked for everthing it's worth. "

see the difference. look bud, disagree if you want. totally your right. but don't get into this semantics crap with me again. we all know what happened last time. stop twisting words to get the meaning you want. you disagree with me? fine. go ahead. but word games? nah, they're for weaklings. is that you? i don't think so.

Your post:
not as hard as you think closet. there's true invention and then there's is massive manipulation. when you're the government and you can create the news, who is to question you? i assume you know how volitile markets are. things spread like a shock wave.
by ClosetIguana on Tue Oct 14, 08 1:56pm


^^ okay dude, that is not from this post at all. wtf are you doing? pulling shit from other ballots and putting them in here? not cool. unless i'm being an idiot, that quote above is not from this ballot.

My post was in response to a ballot your post was in response to my response. Again, it doesn't matter.
but it does. what ballot was that comment from?
Voted : i don't think so
Unlikely





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