Todays DOOM post

[ratewhore]

linky

A thousand businesses collapse in trading gloom. That's got to be worth a doom post...

[sasguru]

Meaningless number - it's possible 1000 businesses or thereabouts collapse in a normal year.
More reasons not the to read newspapers. After all journalists are not usually the best and brightest - they're just post their wanky opinion like atw.

[Bob Dalek]

17% up on last year. But MFI & Woolies employ a lot of folk; wonder how many jobs have been lost, as a percentage of last year?