US Trade Deficit rises to record $57B

[acmejack]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/4081032.stm

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Mission Accomplished." - Commander Cuckoo Banannas

Nice work, Republican Party.
Thanks a pantload.

[Supersedeas]

5. trifecta trifecta trifecta

[Neshanic]

2. Walmart to show item prices in Mandarin at "upscale" stores.

"upscale"...you know, the ones with 50% less garbage in the store and the parking lot.

[rkc3]

3. Actually, February's $61bn was the record for any one month.

The bright side of the $57 bn was that it fell short of analyst expectations of $58bn.

http://biz.yahoo.com/mu/update.html

See 8:33 AM post.

[murray hill farm]

4. Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!

careful now...we do not want the panic to occur just yet! it will come soon enough....when everyone realizes at once...or at least by the next day...when everyone sells their stocks, withdraws their savings and puts their house up for sale..hoping to salvage some equity before it all hits in one huge economic crumble. so......sush...until i get mine out, stocks sold...and house sold with some profit..we dont want the world to react before i am set for it...OK?????

[Double T]

6. Keep On Buying All That Good Chinese And South East Asian Crap...

Let's see how high we can really make the monthly trade deficit, the Sky's the Limit!!!!

[wallwriter]

7. Start learning Chinese...

[Toots]

8. Governor Davis was recalled for fiscal malfeasance and he didn't hold a

candle to the fiscal malfeasance going on from this Administration. Compare the ratio of debt to GDP between California under Davis and the US under Bush*. Makes Davis look like a fiscal genius.

[cliss]

9. When I think of the US economy,

I think of a hollowed-out shell. I've been reading one report after another, that shows the US economy as

Problem #1: We don't manufacture very much. We've outsourced our manufacturing to other countries. It's made us completely dependent on imports.

Problem #2: I've read that because the economy is a hollowed-out shell, capital is desperately trying to find somewhere to go. It's being diverted to the residential real estate market, pushing housing prices up to ridiculous levels. This is because it can't find any other places to go.

Weird.

[Chauga]

10. Nobody cares.

Max out the credit cards. Nothing bad will ever happen. The party will last forever.