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NBC had Trish Regan of CNBC, its sibling financial news cable channel, update us on unemployment. There are now a recordbreaking 6.1m people claiming jobless benefits nationwide, the twelfth week in a row for that number to hit an all-time record. "The job market is growing ever weaker," she warned, as General Motors announced plans to idle its factories for longer than usual. "A long and unwanted summer vacation," was how ABC's Chris Bury put it, as 13 plants will be shuttered for up to nine weeks, cutting the company's production nearly in half, by 190,000 vehicles, to work off excess inventory. The shutdowns will likely spread to the supply chain, CBS' Dean Reynolds predicted, bringing bad news if you happen to make lubricants for metal moldings in Evanston or run a stamping machine in Grand Rapids.
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