Johnny comes marching home — to no job
National Guardsmen are coming home from Iraq to face a new enemy – a swooning economy that has landed like a KO’d heavyweight on the canvas of their home towns.
National Guardsmen are coming home from Iraq to face a new enemy – a swooning economy that has landed like a KO’d heavyweight on the canvas of their home towns.
Big, burly and a “car guy” since high school, Tom Persinger worked for years at General Motors. Now he’s a nurse’s aide earning an hour. ”I’ve been humbled quite a bit,” he said.
Major stock indexes ended down more than 2 percent Tuesday after the U.S. unemployment rate hit a 26-year high.
PVM Oil Associates, the world’s biggest over-the-counter oil brokerage, says it lost nearly million this week because of unauthorized trades that caused a temporary spike in Brent crude markets.