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moondust

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17. NBC Nightly News: This will hurt retirement accounts!

Reply to Yavin4 (Original post)

Tue Jan 6, 2015, 06:50 PM

Jan 2015

Wall Street sucks pensions into the casino and naturally people are going to want the markets to rise. Insurance baby! Don't touch those markets!

"Do whatever you have to, boys, to pump 'em up! I wanna retire and buy a boat someday!"

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Millions of Americans will benefit from lower oil prices. Fuck the energy industry. [View all] Yavin4 Jan 2015 OP

It should lower food prices that are affected by transporting grocery items by truck katmondoo Jan 2015 #1

Yep. The benefits far outweigh the loss of jobs in one sector. Yavin4 Jan 2015 #2

Or when good paying construction jobs held by american citizens were taken by immigrants kelly1mm Jan 2015 #3

It's always a mixed bag. Sadly the way the system works when one group benefits generally RKP5637 Jan 2015 #5

Exactly. Same can be said for Walmart. Lots of problems but lower prices overall (debatable). nt kelly1mm Jan 2015 #9

I somehow cannot share your 'tough shit 'post. Apologies, but misterhighwasted Jan 2015 #4

Yep, agree, pretty much what I was also trying to say in my post #3. It's going to RKP5637 Jan 2015 #7

Those lower oil prices won't help with our environmental issues though The2ndWheel Jan 2015 #6

American pocketbooks are more important than the environment taught_me_patience Jan 2015 #8

Hopefully, a job cleaning up the mess our excessive reliance on convenient energy create LanternWaste Jan 2015 #10

It's amazing Munificence Jan 2015 #15

it depends on the reason for the low prices edhopper Jan 2015 #11

Speculation Andy823 Jan 2015 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author AZ Progressive Jan 2015 #12

They'll come back for that oil when the price goes back up. Throd Jan 2015 #13

Until climate change driven by our insatiable need to burn oil hits home NickB79 Jan 2015 #16

NBC Nightly News: This will hurt retirement accounts! moondust Jan 2015 #17