[lelio]

at for-profit trade schools that could benefit once middle-class students realize

realize that a degree is pretty much worthless as foreigner will do your job for 1/20th of the cost? And that our trade rep Zoellick supports this?

[sarcasm]

Become a car mechanic to service the used cars mentioned in the article.

[Ukiapah Heep]

Shut up, suck it in and work for coolie wages. This has been an unpaid sarcastic announcement from ther freetradeniks.

[bert]

Well, most of the shrinkage is back to the average or normal level. There were zillions of $$$ raised in the capital markets expended on lots of nefarious business projects. That is, the money was stuffed down lots of rat holes, including inflated salaries and wages. Some of the froth slopped over on even the stoggiest of companies.

I wonder if there are still companies with "Bring your kid to work " Fridays. I wonder if there are companies still "burning" money or measuring their time to death by watching the burn rate.

The article describes a return to normalcy and a good rather than a bad condition.