One Last Stab at Sprint/Nextel

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I thought I would bury the hatchet with taking one last stab at how Sprint killed Nextel.

As you might recall, a few months ago I was going through Sprint hell in terms of inflated telephone bills, three times the normal amounts, awful representative with squeaky voices and attitudes, etc.  I switched to T-Mobile and my stress level went down and I, not only pay less, but talk longer.

This morning, sadly Sprint/Nextel announces that due to losing 300,000 monthly subscribers they will fire 5,000 workers! 

Now that a fine way to handle the problem.  Don’t try to get at the core of it, simply fire.  Don’t acknowledge why people are leaving, instead take it out on the workers and squeeze the rest so that irresponsible Officers can continue their thick gravy train ride without facing the fact they are doing such an awful job as to lose that many subscribers a month!

Really makes you wonder how skewed corporate American can get.

Lennar Finds No Sign of Housing Market Recovery

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According to CNNMoney, Lennar warns and is pessimistic warning it will miss fourth quarter earnings forecasts and post a net loss.  Coming right at the heel of trickling effects of a cooling market, this will have big repercussions.

Lennar goes forward saying it has "not yet seen tangible evidence of a market recovery."  So I would like someone to explain the difference between "seeing no evidence of market recovery" and recession?  OK, I know recession is broad scale but let’s lower it down to the entire real estate industry.  Have we become so frighten about the "R" word?

 Read Calculated Risk here.