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more about #thepanicof08 more comments → unclevanya: Will my next Sapartacus Guide be covering faygeleh favelas? #myspace more » Jackson West: Is favela chic sort of like heroin chic, but with more rhythm? If so, I'm in. #myspace more » If_I_Had_a_Poodle: We are all favelas now. #myspace more » BunnySkull: What's this future crap? MySpace has been a shantytown for the unemployed (& aesthetically impaired) for ages. #myspace more » BadUncle: Depends. How's the MySpace feijoada? #myspace more » PaisleyPajamas: I'm curious whether Finn's tax obligation is actually $100 million in tax, or $100 million total after the completely effed way in which the IRS talli... more » FormerEnglishMajor: Cry me a river. Not only are they crooks (hiding money offshore is just as illegal as money laundering or stealing), but they've had months to come cl... more » BalknChain: hmm, lucrative business ideas: 1. cement shoe cobbler-mason 2. money launderer-launderer 3. pinstripe suit, pinstripe painter (nobody can afford the r... more » BalknChain: Isn't the decline of New York how we ended up with "north" Jersey? more » ChillbearLatrigue: I really don't have much use for Paulson anymore, but the financial bailout is one of the major reasons why a lot of the economists are talking about ... more » Carol Gardens: Totally off-topic and superficial but does anyone else think Maria B is pregnant? And I have tried to watch Bloomberg (especially when Kudlow is on ra... more » saythatscool: You're burying your lede here Ryan. The real store is that somebody actually hired Moe to write. more » Debussy Fields: Can I just take this opportunity to point out that Jeff Zucker tampered with his kids' little league draft to get Tiki Barber's kids on his team? The ... more » noodleman: @momo: No. Liberals believe Conservatives are fiscal hypocrites. I certainly didn't see decrease in government spending during the Bush43 years, nor d... more » Private Hangnail: Let me just say that I so look forward to these sorts of posts, only because of all our new conservative commenters get to explain how the rest of us ... more » -
#thingsweactuallylike
MySpace's Future: Online Slum for Depression Refugees
It's hard to imagine much of a future for MySpace. Which is probably why it took a science fiction author to do so: Bruce Sterling says the flagging social network is an ideal shantytown for the nihilistic unemployed. Compelling! More » -
#therich
Suicide Kicks Off Tax-Cheat Hell Week
For tax evaders, the coming seven days are a time of panic, self loathing and wrenching decisions. Hanging over it all is the suicide of an apparently terrified plutocrat, reportedly wanted by the IRS for hiding a small fortune. More » -
#books
Bailout Architect Bailed Out By Lies
Hank Paulson's attempt to weasel out of an interview with the New York Times looks more comical every day. Now it's emerged that the book he was busy writing is being written by someone else. More » -
#journalismism
CNBC: We're Self-Chastening, Like Any Respectable GE Product
So now a CNBC insider says GE overlords did not apply political pressure in a meeting with the network, as previously reported. The financial network is perfectly capable of flagellating itself. More » -
#journalismism
CNBC's Uncomfortable Dinner with Its Overlords
Top GE and NBC Universal executives called a dinner meeting with CNBC bigwigs inside 30 Rock recently. This much is agreed upon. Still unclear: Whether CNBC was pressured to bash the president less. More » -
#lookalikes
Is This Bernie Madoff Dressed As a Pimp?
Online photo service ScanCafe tells us a customer in upstate New York submitted this photo, ostensibly of Bernie Madoff, about a week ago. We were skeptical, but check out the nose and the smile. More » -
#politics
Obama Hurt Bankers' Feelings, And They're Angry
If the president wants bankers to accept the billions of taxpayer dollars they need, he's going to have to accept their outrageous demands, like bonuses forever. Wait, what?
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#journalismism
Wall Street's Newspaper Slaves
The New York Times has a Nobel-prize-winning economist on staff. But no such expert is in tomorrow's front-page story on the trillion-dollar financial bailout. Only the stock market's verdict is included. More » -
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#populism
AIG-ers Return Bonuses To Man Who Has Their Addresses
After subpoenaing the names and addresses of AIG bonus recipients, New York attorney general Andrew Cuomo convinced many said recipients to return the cash. Well, many of those who live near the angry mobs. More » -
#publicrelations
Obama Won't Stop Cracking Up For 60 Minutes
OK, stop Barack Obama if you've heard this one: What's the only thing worse than having a 60 Minutes correspondent ask if the laughing president is "punch drunk" in the middle of an interview? More » -
#classwar
Angry Mobs Coming For AIG Executives
They thought they were safe in their Connecticut palaces, but oh no: top AIG execs face death threats, angry neighbors in their driveways and tabloid photographers. Then there's the roving band of irate poors. More » -
#advertising
Barack Obama Annoys TV Networks With Constant Need To Address Nation
You know who this global economic implosion is really hurting? Broadcast networks. How can they mint money if Overlord Obama is constantly doing TV addresses, like a Soviet Secretary General? More » -
#drdoom
Burn Our Zombie Economy Before Its Years-Long Rampage
Amid the weakest stock-market close in 12 years, Nouriel "Dr. Doom" Roubini decided to scare everyone further, by telling CNBC our depression will last three years, unless maybe we void all mortgages. More » -
#art
Artists' Dreams Imploded Along With Bankers'
The economic meltdown is supposed to "reenergize [the] creative economy" of New York by breaking the city's expensive obsession with finance. Instead, it's wrecking artists' best shot at wealth: Through Larry Gagosian. More » -
#journalismism
Will CNBC Need a Bailout?
CNBC personalities like Rick Santelli and Charles Gasparino have done their loudmouthed best to hone the financial network's laissez-faire bonafides. Good luck holding that stance if CNBC's troubled parent company seeks a bailout. More » -
#journalismism
Jon Stewart's Epic CNBC Rant: Best Moments
If David Letterman's extended fracas with John McCain taught us anything, it's that would-be opinion leaders will pay for canceling on TV hosts. On tonight's Daily Show, Rick Santelli and his network paid dearly. More » -
#branding
Your New Hippie Stimulus Logo
It's true: Barack Obama's new logo, to be stamped on all stimulus-funded projects, is "less fascist" than the militaristic New Deal logos of the 1930s. Our Stalinist dictator must present a hippie front! More » -
#books
Bailouts Spike Atlas Shrugged Sales
All of the government's pesky market intrusions have people snapping up copies of Atlas Shrugged like they were bailout packages. Since it's not like Ayn Rand's laissez-faire fantasies got us into this mess. More » -
#sexwars
Jobless Men Are Brutes
Unemployed men are supposed to be these sad, sappy wimps. That's the stereotype the infamous DABA girls riffed on. But the distinguished historians at Newsweek predict they will follow "their worst hypermasculine impulses." More » -
#flackery
How Donald Trump Tricked Letterman's Audience
Donald Trump can be amazing at spin, when he's not being a pig or sexist dinosaur. The latest example: when the real estate loudmouth masterfully tricked a Late Show audience into applauding his latest business bankruptcy. More »
