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skeptic1
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Re: The Extent of this Economic Crisis

Dragon:

Quote: Posted by Dragontalk

On its own, no. I realize now I only finally started answering the ...

What if when calculating the cost of goods sold (to determine mark-up) wages as a factor would always be the same world wide ?

How would this effect trade balances ?

What basis would all compete ?

Superiority of products ?
The cost of raw materials ?
Financing cost
Shipping ?
Storing ?
Handling ?
pre-sale taxes ?
Overhead ?
Sales expense ?

To what degree(in our case) would such a ...

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Originally Posted by Commodore
So what are you going to do to make American labor more competitive on the global market?

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Equalize ...

1. My son and I ran a business that tried to be prudent but fair in considering sharing our financial good luck with our employees.

In one instance when distributing xmas bonuses one of our key people produced tears in their eyes and exclaimed "I never had this much money before in my life"

Some time later she and a sister who also worked for us used their keys (given to them) to enter our offices on a Saturday, review many of our financial records and shortly ...

Visualize:

Our sailing ship has run aground and we find ourselves in a one of the lifeboats with the Captain.

The Captain who is in charge during such emergencies immediately takes stock of the situation.

It is determined we are within 1000 miles of an island that has life sustaining food and water.

Canisters containing emergency food and water supplies are counted and deemed adequate.

The number of able-bodied men for ...