Jon Fisher - Jon Fisher is a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, adjunct professor and analyst. Fisher co-founded and was Chief Executive Officer of Bharosa, an Oracle Corporation company, which produced the Oracle Adaptive Access Manager. In April 2008, Fisher predicted U.S. unemployment would rise to 9% by April 2009.
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Unemployment is important but I think the real issue is the next bubble to come. It may be a severe devaluing of U.S. treasuries. It may be a loss of confidence in government because of the spending. It may be that we are not out of the woods yet and the markets give us another scare that makes the fourth quarter of 2008 look mild.
Vasil, I think your are confusing revenues and revenue growth with profitability
On contrary, I agree that no matter of the ever-increasing growth both Facebook and Twitter are not profitable just yet. The reason for that is the decision to invest into growth and forget about the profit for now.
My point is that the larger they grow the larger would be their price to sell out to one of the internet giants such as Yahoo or Google etc, unless they would come out with a successful business model on their own.
The U.S. economy is in the early stages of recovery but it will be a while before growth starts to bring down unemployment, a top Federal Reserve official said on Wednesday.
"My forecast envisions a return to positive but subdued gross domestic product growth over the medium term weighed down by significant adjustments to our economy," Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Dennis Lockhart said in prepared remarks.
He posted on blog "is speaking with smart and influential investors betting on a ski jump recession meaning stimulus creates bump leading to precipitous decline." Is he bull or bear?
WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- Employment in the U.S. private sector fell by 298,000 in August, according to the ADP employment report released Wednesday.
The drop suggests nonfarm payrolls may sink by more than the 250,000 anticipated by economists ahead of the government's much-anticipated report due out Friday morning.