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...seems impossible that a handful of companies could put nearly 80,000 people out of work in a day. Caterpillar (CAT), Pfizer (PFE), Texas Instruments (TXN), Sprint (S), and Home Depot (HD) did most of the damage. What was not seen in the headlines was the thousands of smaller American firms which also fired people over the same 24-hours. Could 200,000 people across the economy have been put out of work in one day? Of course...
...jack-o-lanterns are still on the stoop, but already we're seeing prices for holiday ornaments slashed in half at J.C. Penney and pricey toys at Wal-Mart marked down to $10 a pop. Home Depot skipped Halloween altogether, piling up Christmas trees by early October...
...disposable frat-party cups. A rustic wooden barrel that looks like it might have been used in the original 1821 production at the Konzerthaus in Berlin, shares space on the stage with a blue plastic trash bin that looks like it might have been purchased at the Home Depot in West Roxbury, Mass. The period and setting are never clear, producing an inscrutable operatic haze that frustrates singers and spectators alike.The haze finally cleared—though only briefly—in the middle of the third and final act. As Buck was singing a humorous aria called...
...past, he's made a fortune with similarly contrarian bets in devastated emerging markets, most memorably in Russia after it defaulted on its debt in 1998. At the time, says Weiss, the entire Russian stock market was valued at about half the price of the U.S. company Home Depot. Now, markets in countries like Russia, China, Vietnam, Brazil and India - all adored by investors until recently - have crashed. But Weiss still isn't ready to plunge in. "I don't think the emerging markets are cheap enough yet," he says. "I don't think people hate them enough...
...into a breathless verbal tour of his hometown, beginning with Union Street and a mom-and-pop restaurant, accelerating through all the stops—the current administration, taxes, Iraq, education, health care—taking a slight detour to note his (working-class, blue-collar) predilection for Home Depot, and wheezing back into the station with a promise of change from Obama. To viewers at home, Biden’s brief but intimate portrait seemed to say much more than any dense policy proposal...