The Gateway Drug [Business Edition]

Day 628, 13:08 • Published in Ireland Ireland • by Sean Power

Hello and welcome to the Business Edition of The Gateway Drug.
Promises of multicoloured, eye grabbing* graphs have been made in the past. Thankfully today is the day this promise is fulfilled. *awaits ohhs and ahhhs* 🙂

*We here @ The Gateway Drug have done everything within our power to tame these wild graphs against their inherent eye grabbing tendencies to the best of our ability. Our thorough regime for graph obedience consists of a selection process similar to American Idol.... only the most popular graphs, devoid of any personality are chosen after proving they are willing to be publicly humiliated without fear of shame or loathing. Should any of the aforementioned graphs decide to go rouge and actually grab any eyes we shall not be held responsible.
You have been warned! /Disclaimer

Methodology

In collecting my data it is possible I've neglected to include figures from a couple of ninja companies out there in the shadows neither selling on the market nor seeking workers.... I private investigator is, as i type, haggling over an estimate of how many 'ladys of the night' the job will entail for expenses.... for now the figures shall be based on companies trading and companies seeking labour.

Also, there have been some laziness and stupidity issues which needed to be addressed over the course of the data collection period. It came as a shock to me that some companies were willing to pay employees without selling anything... I thought that was purely the preserve of State companies 😉
Then I realised that I don't really care about how many workers are helping that e-italian company profit on our lack of competition in one quality area of a certain product .... so my early employee numbers are out by the amount of workers that arguably could have been given sustainable jobs in eIreland.

Manfacturing
This area of our economy is currently employing 234 workers with the bulk of the work, as you can see (be nice to the reader Mr. Graph, being done to create food and weapons.


Figures from 9/8/09 - Click for bigger images




Weapons
The total includes four q1 companies who are not currently selling on the market but who are looking for willing citizens to work for them. These guys are looking for workers so it looks like the possibility of wargames has spurred the creation of yet more q1 weapons companies, of which there are currently 5 trading. On the 17th July, round about when wargames ended, there were seven q1 weapons companies trading with 3 not trading. I would imagine then that if wargames were to restart that a few of our current off market companies would be viable.

Prices in quality levels 3,4 and 5 of weapons are each controlled by company with a monopoly.

Moving Tickets
Dispite the impact on the necessity of moving tickets created by the citizenship module, 10 companies continue to offer the product on the market. There hasn't been a drop off in overall employment (not solely irish employed) in the sector despite 2 less companies trading compared to 17th July. The reduction in the number of firms competing may have had an impact on the lowest offered market price which has risen from 13.63 IEP to 15.8 IEP from 17/7/09 to 9/8/09.

That's an increase of price of nearly 16% in the space of about 3 weeks and an even greater leap if the leap in the value of IEP over that timeperiod is considered. Supply may be playing more of a part than demand in pushing the price upwards. While the number of tickets available on the market has fallen gradually (382 to 345 from 17/7/09 to 9/8/09) the number being witheld from the market in companies has crashed dramatically from a high of 282 (22/7/09) to the present low of a meer 33.

Gifts
Two companies catering to those in need of q2 gifts have abandoned the market, head for the hills or possibly have gone into hiding to avoid capture by their creditors. This means q1 gifts are the highest quality and best gifts on the market at present. As you'd imagine this quality level has now gained those customers previously buying q2 gifts (were there any??!) which may account for the fall off in the lowest market price available from 3.72 IEP (17/7/09) to the current lowest price of 3.43 IEP.

Although now I look at my spreadsheet, it seems that there's been splurge of q1 gifts being offered to the market with 865 currently available compared to 381 approx three weeks ago. The amount of stock in holding by companies in this market has stayed relatively steady at around 260.

I'm just gonna throw these here for now. May add commentary later tonight. (None-so subtle hint at an explanation below)






Well that's all for now. My aim to have a link library to direct you towards sensible business advice (mines of the gonzo kind) will have to wait till next time for reasons unrevealed.....
*dialling Dominos* 🙂

Seán Power
TD for Southeast of eIreland
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