Pilots Reject Deal to Allow American Eagle to Add Larger Embraer Planes to Fleet

Simple solution. Become an exec.

I might suggest that it's the other way around. The economy us doing plenty well (growing at close to or better than 3% already).

But companies aren't hiring on workers that are not necessary to get the job done. All have learned to get more done with less. And most companies are not interested in going back to doing less with more.

The unemployment situation won't get fixed any time soon either, at least not for unskilled workers. There are many structural issues that are depressing the employment picture.

Partly it is the labor markets that are available in a globalized world. There are many all over the world that would appreciate tier own shot at a middle class job.

Partly in the US is the oversupply of labor (particularly unskilled labor) that results from so many that are present without legal status nor any immigration documentation. These folks are often willing to work for much less than natives, as they are often coming from places with much less.

Partly it is the uncertainties that exist in economies all over the world. In the US, it is a jobless recovery. In Europe, it is a financial system that has yet to finish deleveraging. plus in many European counties, they'd love to have the US employment rate. not to mention that there is still talk of European disintegration. Not all countries seem to have their interests aligned. Those that have, don't want to share with the have nots. Those that have not, don't have, and are at odds with a way to get going.

China's growth has slowed down to single digits. Bit they don't have a market economy. The transition away from a centrally directed economy to one that is responsive to the marketplace will cause headaches. Real estate is a huge bubble. There are many newly built but completely or mostly unoccupied residential, commercial, retail/malls and/or office buildings. Some day they'll use all those empty airports, empty buildings and empty cities. But they'll have to pass some difficult moments between bow and then.

And those 3 examples are among the largest and most important economies globally.

American workers spending more freely, would add to the US and world economies incrementally. But even they couldn't mitigate all that systemic risk and weakness around the world.