with all the negative talk about the economy

one love · Postby **one love** » March 17th, 2009, 7:06 am

why are they not talking about this as much? I truly feel if they showed as much of the positive aspects of the economy as they do the negative it would truly help speed the process of a positive change.
I know this is not huge but it is better then it has been.

rjjunior · Postby **rjjunior** » March 17th, 2009, 7:16 am

It is likely a bear market rally and will sink back down soon (at least some talking heads say so).

one love · Postby **one love** » March 17th, 2009, 7:19 am

rjjunior wrote:It is likely a bear market rally and will sink back down soon (at least some talking heads say so).

Maybe but why not at least show the positive days? This is the best days we have had consecutively since this recession started. The talking head are not helping either whether liberal or conservative!
They are all getting on my nerves !!! Including Rush, Hannity, Colmes etc........

Pastor Bill · Postby **Pastor Bill** » March 17th, 2009, 7:51 am

I agree on that one love, I think for alot of people, the hype about this is going to effect more than the real drops. Not that things aren't bad, but when people start to get scared, and start to panic, it really won't help.

I have a close friend who was talking about her father's house, he just passed away and all her brothers and sisters are talking about if they can just get out of it what is owed... and she's shocked, the home is worth probably 4-5 times what's owed on it, and she really doesn't want to see what her parents worked so hard for to be just given away to cover the remaining payments.

I truly feel the problems are worse because it's been such a focus.

Full Quiver · Postby **Full Quiver** » March 17th, 2009, 10:47 am

In my opinion we aren't winning economically till we reach the standard point which we were at over the past few years. We can gain 2000 points tomorrow but we are still down. But even if we lunge 2000 or more points people are still out of work, broke, and undone so this mess is far from over.

rjjunior · Postby **rjjunior** » March 17th, 2009, 12:46 pm

Do you really expect Jim Cramer and the like to come out and celebrate the upturn when they were implicated in the downturn? However, I watch Fox Business occasionally and they cheer when the market is up, but they're not about to say we're out of the woods. That would simply be naive and easily viewed as wishful thinking.

The systemic problems still remain (and some of us only see the problems becoming exacerbated by the Administration, etc).

Mike Vande · Postby **Mike Vande** » March 18th, 2009, 2:07 am

"Bad economy/recession" has become the hot story on the political media scene. They won't start talking about a rebound until it's almost all the way back. No one wants to be the guy saying there's an economic rebound just before it falls on it's face again.

Reputations are in the media are always in the process of being made and unmade. If one gets unmade, it's owner winds up like Arthur whats-his-face, the SCUD stud from the original Gulf War. When was the last time you heard of him?

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