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Omaha Steve's Labor Group

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4. I'm just not sure exactly what part of the...

Reply to stopdiggin (Reply #2)

Sun Apr 3, 2022, 02:31 PM

Apr 2022

“supply and demand” maxim these people don’t understand…big carriers, small carriers, retail/service industries, etc etc etc.

It’s so goddamned mysterious…they seem to understand it completely when the labor market is soft, when unemployment is high. Yet, when the labor market starts to tighten EVERY ONE OF THEM seems to have been a narcoleptic pot head during their ECON-101 class.

Just fuckin’ mysterious is all I’m sayin’.

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I'm just not sure exactly what part of the... ret5hd Apr 2022 #4

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