Brother can you spare a dime?

[Louis Proyect]

>Dear Maggie,
>
>There was a report on NPR that empty cargo containers were piling up in  west
>coast ports---because there was no cargo being shipped in the other
direction.
>Can any of the LBOers confirm this report.
>
>Sincerely,
>Tom

This reminds me of an interesting anecdote. I ran into a neighbor on the
elevator the other day who has a printing company that caters to the
financial industry. I asked him how business was. He replied terrible. What
was the problem? It seems that brokerage houses are shying away from IPOs
because the future looks so uncertain. That's how he makes most of his
money, by printing up fancy IPO literature.

Louis Proyect
(http://www.panix.com/~lnp3/marxism.html)