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Welcome To The New Normal: The Dow Crashes Another 390 Points And Wal-Mart Closes 269 Stores
The Sons of Liberty ^ | January 17, 2016 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 01/19/2016 10:27:02 AM PST by RetiredArmy

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The Wal Mart closing 269 stores caught my attention. As the article says, Wally World does not retreat, it crushes everyone in their way. This shows the economy is really in trouble to the max. Hussein Obama's lies at the Sorry State of the Union speech certainly shows his continual lies. Nothing like over 93 million Americans out of work and not looking for work anymore because all the burger flipping jobs are being held by unemployed college professors.
1 posted on 01/19/2016 10:27:02 AM PST by RetiredArmy
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To: RetiredArmy

People are realizing the soviet-style Federal Reserve manipulation of the money supply for political reasons has completely failed.


2 posted on 01/19/2016 10:28:29 AM PST by PGR88
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To: RetiredArmy

#PeddlingFiction


3 posted on 01/19/2016 10:30:40 AM PST by Heartlander (Prediction: Increasingly, logic will be seen as a covert form of theism. - Denyse O'Leary)
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They are closing the Express stores which were a really bad idea.

Dow is up 30 points today


4 posted on 01/19/2016 10:31:39 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you really want to irritate someone, point out something obvious they are trying hard to ignore.)
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Baloney. The economy may be in the dumps, but the Wal-Mart situation has nothing to do with it. Wal-Mart would have been closing stores anyway, as e-commerce displaces more and more traditional retailing from the market.

If you used Amazon as the barometer of this country's economic performance over the last few years, you'd get a very different story.

5 posted on 01/19/2016 10:32:38 AM PST by Alberta's Child (My mama said: "To get things done, you'd better not mess with Major Tom.")
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To: RetiredArmy

Do you have a feeling that something really bad is about to happen?...
Not for me as I have no stake in the Market. Personally I hope for the best and PREPARE for the worst:-)


6 posted on 01/19/2016 10:33:17 AM PST by Harpotoo
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The one store that is opening all over the place here in my corner of Alabama is the Dollar General. They are popping up all over the place. Starting out just like Wal Mart did in the beginning with all those small stores all over the place. I was in Germany when Wal Mart first came to our areas here and when I came home all these new stores were around. I asked my mother when those opened and she said last year and the guy who owned them lived in Arkansas. I had never heard of the company until I returned from Germany.


7 posted on 01/19/2016 10:33:56 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Read 1 Corinthians 15: verses 1-4. This is the Gospel of Grace, the ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED!!)
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“Did you know that 15 trillion dollars of global stock market wealth has been wiped out since last June?”

Really, factories, office buildings, and electrical generating plants have vanished into thin air? Nope, they’re still there. They are just selling for a slightly different price on the stock market. If you wait a while, you might get a better price....or maybe not.


8 posted on 01/19/2016 10:35:16 AM PST by proxy_user
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You wanna laugh? 5/2014 The U.S. economy is within sight of the Federal Reserve’s inflation and EMPLOYMENT goals, and is expected to grow at a “robust” pace for the rest of the year, St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank President James Bullard said on Friday.


9 posted on 01/19/2016 10:35:43 AM PST by Harpotoo
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To: RetiredArmy

It’s just Obama working to flesh out his “legacy.” We need to be praying that our country gets through the next 12 months and one day!


10 posted on 01/19/2016 10:37:23 AM PST by vette6387
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I think America is about one terrorist event from crashing the economy and the one in the WH declaring martial law. If a terrorist attack happened at some huge mall or sporting even, it would cause people to stop going to stores, afraid of another attack and the economy simply cannot take it. I think the economy is a house of cards. Held up with chewing gum and it is about to fall. Just one big event could cause a collapse of the economy. We simply are just too in debt to take it. But, this what the left wants. Tear America down and rebuild it like the Soviet Union or worse Babylon of Nimrod’s time. That is ultimately where the world is heading, the One World Government. The Bible makes that CLEAR!


11 posted on 01/19/2016 10:37:28 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Read 1 Corinthians 15: verses 1-4. This is the Gospel of Grace, the ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED!!)
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Walmarts loss is Amazon’s gain. Change happens. Writer scare is scare monger.


12 posted on 01/19/2016 10:37:38 AM PST by Raycpa
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bho is happy that American Capitalism is crumbling.


13 posted on 01/19/2016 10:38:10 AM PST by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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Those office building are empty because we have plenty around here along with the stores and shops that have closed down. Don’t care if the buildings are worth millions, if no one is in them using them then they are worthless to me. I am paying for the buildings and getting no rent back and clearly no one is expanding to buy them.


14 posted on 01/19/2016 10:39:29 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Read 1 Corinthians 15: verses 1-4. This is the Gospel of Grace, the ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED!!)
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The markets are flat today.

So far.


15 posted on 01/19/2016 10:39:42 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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I agree, those Express stores didn’t fit.

But they did close a SuperCenter in Fairfield, Alabama.


16 posted on 01/19/2016 10:40:11 AM PST by Bodleian_Girl
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Your opinion. I don’t agree with you. If you think the country is hunky dorrie, that is your opinion and I completely disagree. All I have to do is take a peek at my wife’s 401k and see that.


17 posted on 01/19/2016 10:40:52 AM PST by RetiredArmy (Read 1 Corinthians 15: verses 1-4. This is the Gospel of Grace, the ONLY WAY TO BE SAVED!!)
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Where will the money go when the global ecomomy fails?

USA - the "safe haven."

18 posted on 01/19/2016 10:47:43 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (With Trump & Cruz, America can't lose!)
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but the Wal-Mart situation has nothing to do with it. Wal-Mart

I've been very disappointed at how the Wal-Mart story has been incorrectly reported. They are "retooling" those stores, to adapt to changes in buying habits. Even Rush made it sound like 16,000 will be laid off. Some jobs may be cut, but most will transfer to other stores.

I posted it on my alumni forum, just to see who would jump on it like red meat. I wasn't disappointed: the libs could only talk about how evil Wal-mart is.

19 posted on 01/19/2016 10:51:59 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Mississippi! My vote is going to Cruz.)
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What is a WalMart “express store?”

Is that what WalMart “neighborhood markets” are called?

We have a WM neighborhood market in our area, and a semi-super store a mile away.


20 posted on 01/19/2016 10:52:10 AM PST by Syncro (Stop the GOP/Dems Voter Fraud!)
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