Comments on: Job stats show which industries have taken the worst hits

By: kentropic

kentropic — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 18:49:14 +0000

Hear, hear, Wendy and John. I think one of the first industries to show signs of recovery will be manufacturing — which will reflect a rebound in demand once existing inventories are liquidated.

By: John

John — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:59:20 +0000

There is NO SUCH thing as a free market. Every government/county in the world implements tariffs/taxes to favor or disfavor certain industries or countries. It’s time to get off this “free hand” nonsense and work towards a government model that protects its citizens and business environment to the best of its ability. Too much government and you get socialism or fascism; too few governmental regulations and you get the US economy from Reagan to Bush…………….

By: Wendy

Wendy — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:29:19 +0000

We’ve been back and forth on the issue of goverment regulations, and it’s time to move on. We all seem to be entrenched in our philosophies. I’d like to discuss what industries HR colleagues believe will recover first when the economy turns around (and it will, as we all know), and how our companies will be affected by small or great surges in certain sectors.

By: Frances

Frances — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:15:36 +0000

The economy will continue to have severe and prolonged problems unless and until the Feds stop trying to manage it. Free markets work far better than anything attempted by state control. Under a capitalist system you have failures but those failures are short lived rather than the drawn out time frame due to failed statist policies. Government has NEVER run any economy well-efficient markets operate from the ground up, not from the top downward.