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more about #economy more comments → BadUncle: A round of scrotal waxings for all my friends! more » Unsolicited Advice: Keep paying down your debts, the overhang is still in the trillions and trillions. more » Swifter: Pareene doesn't know it, but fully half his pageview earnings go to the local Young Republican chapter. more » Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: OMG cash fan!!! more » Trulymadlyme: This is why newspaper and magazines are dying. Because this shit should be in Cosmo a year ago. Le sigh. more » son of spam: The best part about dating a finance guy is that a girl can find one that is both rich and stupid, thus taking the whole thinky thing off the table. more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: Rags and Riches. more » kneetoe: aka Alcoholics Meet Anorexics. more » EleanorRigby: The smartest one of the bunch was the mythical "David" who works in "Cougar trading." Given the current economy and zeitgeist, he'll have the most suc... more » raincoaster: Guess Izzy's not bright enough to even try for Oxbridge, eh? more » LatestBy: Princess Diana could've gotten her in. more » Colonel Mustard: Holy crap. At a glance, I totally thought the accompanying picture was some Jay Leno "if they reproduced" mash-up of Ellen and Portia De Rossi. Aaaa... more » IamnotStarJones: I'm devastated for Tina. What's the use of voraciously licking the balls of the media elite if they can't get your kid into Harvard? more » Baroness: Yet Anna Wintour had Bee admitted to Hogwarts' with the snap of her bony fingers. Let this be a lesson to us all. more » DoctorJezebel: I'm a Harvard 'z-lister'... sort of a bummer at the time (one of the 'official' reasons was that they didn't have 'space in the dorms'), but I took th... more » -
#moneymatters
Stop Your Whining, Americans. We're Rich!
In the face of the recession, Americans saved more money and stopped borrowing. Meanwhile, stock prices started rising. All this gave households the highest amount of wealth they've had in two years. Let's go shopping! [WSJ] -
#recession
Experts agree: New York's own personal recession will continue. For how long remains mystery.
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#heartofdarkness
NYT Infiltrates Fashion Meets Finance, Possibly Leaves Scarred For Life
The Sunday Styles finally went to Fashion Meets Finance, an event where Manhattan banker-types and fashion slaves meet, consummate, and procreate certain genetics to create lineages of people you'd rather not know. Their findings are, while nothing new, nonetheless awesome. More » -
#powerofprivilege
Tina Brown Feels Old Media's Economic Pain While Trying To Slip Her Kid Into Harvard
Tina Brown's keeping plenty busy these days, both feeling out the pain of the hoi polloi - but especially of those old media people she intends on stomping out - while failing to slide her kid into Harvard with connections. More » -
#classwarfare
It's Not a Crippling Recession. It's a Learning Experience!
It's a good thing this epic recession is an opportunity to "reset" our culture, as Kurt Andersen tells us, or slough off the chains of corporatism, as per Douglas Rushkoff. Otherwise it would really suck for all the unemployed people.
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#newdepression
539,000 people lost their jobs in April. Atrocious figure, but fewer than in March.
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#cars
Important Auto Industry News
"[White House National Economic Council Director Lawrence] Summers owns a 1995 Mazda Protege that's registered in Massachusetts." [Detroit News] -
#stimulus
Liveblogging Obama's Guilt Trip to Unemployment Town
Barack Obama is in Elkhart, Indiana, one of those towns where there aren't any jobs left, to shame the Senate into passing his damn stimulus bill already. More » -
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#ohno
Government Job Database Hacked
Were you looking for a job, maybe with President Obama? Hah, you just got identity thefted! USAJOBS, the government's online job database, has been hacked. More » -
#culturewars
Obama So Far Stimulating Decades-Old Arguments
Guys have you heard about this stimulus bill? It is made up entirely of $1 trillion dollars spent on sex, filthy unreproductive sex! More » -
#newyorkmagazine
Most Amortizable of New York
In tough times we all need to cut back on frivolous expenditures. And no expenditures are more frivolous than the ones listed in New York's annual "Best of New York" issue. Except this year! More » -
#nodepression
Tina Brown on the True Victims of the Recession
Tina Brown, author of a best-selling book on Princess Diana and editor-in-chief of a neat blogsite that is like HuffPo but without the faux-populism "anyone can blog" shtick, is really sweating this new media environment. More » -
#history
Happy First Day of the Obama Administration
This is it! January 5, 2009: the beginning of the Obama presidency. He is on TV fixing the economy, making tough decisions, being presidential, and the inauguration is just a formality now. More » -
#recessionomics
How Long Will the Greatest Depression Be?
When does a recession turn into a depression? When economists start getting fired! Since the experts can't even agree on how long this downturn will last, let's hope that starts happening soon.
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#sadthings
Kathy Fuld's Recessiony $10,000 'Secret Shopping' Sprees
Fabulously rich people are nothing if not sensitive. Take Kathy Fuld, who still goes on once-a-week $5,000-10,000 shopping sprees at Hermès, but nowadays, so she doesn't offend anyone, she tries to keep quiet about it.
