For the millions of Americans right now looking for a job, the latest batch of employment statistics paint a rather grim picture.  As bleak as this all may sound, jobseekers (both employed and unemployed) shouldn’t be deterred: With a sound strategy, and four simple secrets, it’s still possible to survive – and even thrive – in a jobless recovery.

T.G.I.M (Thank goodness it’s March). Unfortunately, that’s what investors were saying when they closed the books on January and times have only gotten worse.

Credit isn’t wealth. A lot of people are discovering that the hard way. Welcome to the credit deflation prelude to hyperinflation.

There are so many complications, economics wise, and there shouldn’t be, because as Ludwig von Mises once said, defining economics, “People Act.”  It’s just that simple!  Examples are everywhere.  Toyota is closing its plants for 11 days, and how many employees does this affect?  Let’s say 2,000, at $200 a day, for 11 days.  The loss in payroll to workers is a total of $4,400,000.  Toyota (NYSE:TM) will save $4,400,000, and the laid off workers will buy $4,400,000 less food, cars, gasoline, or whatever they won’t buy, because they have fewer dollars to use.

he economic news continues to bring bad tidings…consumer bankruptcies were up 33% in 2008…The financial crash is causing an economic crash, which will cause a worse financial crash…and around and around we go…Who will spend their savings in ‘09?…the CBO puts the budget deficit at $1.2 trillion for this year – and that’s not counting stimulus programs…and more!

The Feds try to reflate the world economy with $10 trillion but at what cost? As predicted in this space, the November payrolls were down a lot more than expected. Economists thought there would be 350,000 layoffs. Instead, the actual number was 200,000 more.