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My job hunting that took me to Manila

by reynz on January 11, 2011

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After losing my job in New Orleans, I started sending tons of application letters everyday. Yes, as in 8 days a week. That bad. I remember I used up the allowed space limit on Gmail. It was at the height of the insanity in Wall Street called financial crisis. Unemployment was double-digit. Public anger was [...]

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Hire an employee, get a loan break

by reynz on July 3, 2010

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Here’s a novel offer from Chase: For each new employee a small business hires, the bank will knock down the interest rate on its credit line. The new program, unveiled Wednesday, is open to business owners who take on a new Chase business credit line of up to $250,000 or existing customers who increase their [...]

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U.S. jobless rate passed 10% mark

by reynz on November 7, 2009

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Another truly sad day in America. An sama na nga nang balita from Fort Hood, Texas tapos eto pa. It seemed like, for one bit of good news, buburahin sya nang nakaka-shock na reality. Just where are the jobs? Where are they hiring? True, recession might be ending because the last quarter of this year [...]

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Improving US economy

by reynz on October 30, 2009

Recession is something that we all seem to know. But when one start throwing in words like macroeconomic indicators, GDP, consumer spending, inflation – the whole concept becomes difficult to understand. Even the book definition is still somewhat difficult to comprehend to a non-economist. They say that “two successive quarters of negative growth mark the [...]

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And so, classes in most Barrio Siete and Sitis in the Philippines have opened. At bawat opening, me closing. Eto ngayon ang chorva. Life after college can be very difficult for students everywhere. You may be living in turd or pers world kawntri noh! Pero parang mas mahirap ata kung asa turd world leche land [...]

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Job creation by sending Filipinos out of the nation

January 26, 2009

Job creation is hard, family separations are harder More family separations. That’s what I see from the current headlines. True, job creation is one truly difficult task, especially when the problem is confidence and trust. You need venture capitalists. You need entrepreneurs. You need liquidity. You need fresh loans pumped into the economy. You need [...]

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01/24/09: President Obama’s Weekly Address

January 25, 2009

What’s the buzz? In his first weekly address since being sworn in as the 44th president of the United States, President Barack Obama discussed how the American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan will jump-start the economy. Share on Facebook Digg Stumble Upon Del.icio.us Buzz

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Ay! Leche!

January 21, 2009

Calm down! Alright peeps! Calm down! Trust me, you don’t want me to give you some pagkahigpit-higpit na hugs and kisses! This blog is not owned by azucarera leche flan de filipinas. I don’t have any chocolates for you kundi blunt asphalt cookies. But these are the news that I am reading aujourd’hui. Karon. Right [...]

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President-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus bill

January 10, 2009

What’s the buzz? President-elect Barack Obama wants a stimulus bill on his desk by mid-February, putting negotiations on a fast track. But the economic recovery plan are facing a barrage of criticism from some Senate Democrats. Key measures like the plan’s tax breaks were a return to “trickledown” economics. Sen. Tom Harkin, a Democrat from [...]

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Unemployed Philippines: Bahala na

January 3, 2009

11 million Filipinos will be out of work Former Budget Secretary Benjamin Diokno said that millions of Filipinos would either go unemployed or be underemployed as the export sector would continue to slow down. The number? 11 million. That’s almost the entire population of Metropolitan Manila. Electronics: Layoffs planned The electronics sector currently employs about [...]

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Si Gio at ang resume nya

December 22, 2008

Mass-produced foods Matagal ko nang kebigan si Gio Beersatse. One time he treated me for a candle light sit-down dinner. Parati na lang kasi kaming nakatayo sa kanto nang Broad Street sa Philadelphia kumakain. Yon bang kariton?! Uhuh! Meron din kami nyan! Mass-produced foods! Candle light dinner So, eto nga, pumunta kami nang restaurant. Indi [...]

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The world is never short of dumb people

December 9, 2008

The world is never short of dumb people. I’m sorry for my rants. But, am fine. I maybe out of work, but the only stress I get is from blogging! I know, I know, kanya-kanya tayong dumbassness Hahaha! (Photo Credits: Robert LZ) As you all know, my full-time job right now, is to look for [...]

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Que pasa la economia del america?

November 13, 2008

FORECLOSURES Dios mio perdon mi amigos! Tienes bunduk mejores de problema ici Amerika por dios por santo! Por ejemplo, karon foreclosures es muy grabe que you will habla punyeta por que estan venchingko porciento (25%) up from last year that estamos more than 279,500 U.S. casas recebanditas una noticia foreclosure santisima. Y more than 84,000 [...]

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Unemployed America

November 8, 2008

Gano katindi ang unemployment problem sa Amerika? Titigan nyo ang lola. Di pa ako nag-sisimula sa punyetang trabaho ko sa Chicago, na-fire kaagad ako! Puta naman! Grrr! 10 million jobless people. I can’t believe kasali ako! The most in a quarter-century. Pasko pa naman. Ang masakit nito: It’s only going to get worse. At ang [...]

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Officially unemployed

July 1, 2008

Today is Tuesday, July 1, 2008. I am now officially unemployed. But before I left my boss from hell, I emailed everybody that I was leaving. Yan si Badia. Tiga-Morocco. Nilayasan na rin nya ang work niya. Lahat nang development projects nya, hawak ko. And she’s been very helpful at talagang nag-depend din ako sa [...]

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The true signs of times that the 7.3% GDP can’t explain

April 2, 2008

Mukhang naduling ang European Union kasi na-misread ata nila yung 7.4% as the GDP growth rate of the Philippines Hehehe! Improveyshus daw detichewa ang economee. April fools!!!! Hahaha! 7.4% was actually the current unemployment rate! 7.3% naman ang say sa Pasig na GDP growth rate. Aw ewan! am telling you, wez ko knowing if those [...]

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