The word desperation means a state in which all hope is lost or is absent. It’s sad to me that people feel desperate alot in the midst of a job search. Desperate for the phone to ring, desperate for the interview, and desperate for a job offer. Let me say that I understand that there is a need to make money and to take care of responsibilities. I know that is part of the reason that people feel desperate in this market, however I don’t believe that you will get a job any faster by allowing desperation to creep in.
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The Dow sank as much as 140 points heading into mid-day, and sits below the 12,000 barrier broken earlier this week. 
There could me many reasons for the decline: rising oil prices, downgrades, shaky earnings, or perhaps risky witches. 
Risky witches?  Yes, today is a special day for witching and in a Harry Potter-esque scene witches from all over the world have converged on U.S. financial markets to wreak havoc…I hope no one actually believed that ;)
Seriously, today is a day of ”quadruple witching.”  It happens four times a year on the third Friday of March, June, September, and December.
On these special days, four sets of derivative contracts expire: stock index futures, …read more