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Turning Around!

Do you thing we’re still in a recession? If you answered yes, you would be right. According to data there is nothing typical about what we’re going through. The world markets have improved, but jobs are still around 10 percent. The real unemployment rate is around 15 percent. But that’s how it happens, the economy recovers first, then jobs. Right now the Insurance Industry is getting hit pretty hard. People are losing their jobs and cars, which means there losing their health care, life insurance , and even car insurance. These are only a few insurance products I have listed that are hurting; there are a lot more out there. Sooner or later people will start to seek out new insurance rates, health care, and auto insurance, but only when they find work. So let’s hope for some go reports on the economy this week.

Higher Education!

I have been looking around on the internet for a few days now looking to see if I could find a university to get an affordable online degree. And to my surprise I found a university that was started by 19 Governors. The university is Western Governors Online University. They started at with about 500 students, all online. Today they serve around 19,000 students. And what makes this university worth checking out is that their an credited university. I will be checking out WGU for myself and my wife. My wife would love to finish her teaching degree. If she can get an online teaching degree in less time and save money that would be great. The information I read on their site should be read by anyone looking to get their degree online, great information, check them out.

Chemical Businesses!

I haven’t talked about the chemical industry for some time now. Maybe because I’m invested in it and it’s not doing to well. The chemical makers like Ashland, Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas haven’t been doing to hot over the last few years. Mostly because of the chemical products they produced have dropped off. When people stop buying things around the world this industry feels it the most. That’s because they make the raw materials that go into just about everything. All of these companies I just stated in this post have lost about 80 percent in value because of the down turn. Two of these companies had agree to come together before the down turn, Dow Chemical and Rohm & Haas. Dow Chemical was going to purchase Rohm & Haas for $78 a share. But that deal has since falling apart, and Dow Chemical was paying a $3 million a day fee until they close the deal. And this deal also sparked Rohm & Haas to file a lawsuit against Dow Chemical; it was a big mess. However, over the last 2 years these companies have had a come back, a huge come back. Ashland is up from a low of $5.35 a year ago to almost $54 a share today. I have shares in Ashland, and have done pretty good with them, I think they still have room to grow, anyway that’s what I’m hoping.

Job Hunting!

Do you or someone you know that lives in West Palm Beach, or maybe you’re looking to reloacate there? If so, do a West Palm Beach job search to loacate the right job for you in the area. Right now it’s so hard to get a job anywhere in the US, or around the world. Millions of people are still without work, and without any real change coming soon. People around the world are starting to get very stressful about not having a job. Without jobs everything will fail, everything. The Governments of the world need to help get people back to work. They need to provide tax breaks to small businesses, they employ more people than big businesses do. They also need to help people start their own businesses. And stop waisting money on projects that only provide work for a few months, it’s useless. At this point I hope that jobs start coming back soon, because if they don’t we’re all going to be feeling the pain.