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The Greatest Depression
Obama’s Job Summit Already Working! The country only shed 11,000 jobs last month, which is good, and unemployment is now at 10 percent, which is good.
By Dan Amira
Dubai: Bowed, But Not Broken Dubai has stabilized, but they probably won’t be building any luxury underwater resorts anytime soon.
By Hugo Lindgren
the greatest depression
Nov. 30, 2009
By Adam K. Raymond
Things to Be Thankful For This Year: No Marauding Monkeys This year, we’re being thankful for the things that have not happened.
By Jessica Pressler
awesome things
Nov. 25, 2009
Judge Tells ‘Vexatious’ Bank to Shove It A verbose judge relieves a Long Island couple of their $525,000 mortgage.
By Jessica Pressler
ballsy crime
Nov. 23, 2009
The Life and Loves of Danny Pang Danny Pang conducted romantic as well as financial fraud.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Nov. 23, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Nov. 20, 2009
Goldman’s Sachs-Cloth and Ashes Tour Continues Three hundred Goldman employees are spending this Thanksgiving on garbage duty.
By Jessica Pressler
white men with money
Nov. 18, 2009
Vikram Pandit Will Continue to Make $1 Per Year The Citigroup CEO continues his reign of austerity.
By Jessica Pressler
the geithnerator
Nov. 17, 2009
Geithner Paid AIG Counterparties in Full Because He ‘Lacked Leverage’ With Banks To which TARP inspector general Neil Barofsky says: “Hello, you’re their regulator. THAT’S your leverage.”
By Jessica Pressler
the great depressive
Nov. 16, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Nov. 12, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
white-collar welfare
Nov. 10, 2009
Severance Economy Next Shoe to Drop? Some of the people laid off during the Greatest Depression have been unable to adjust to their new environment, to their (and our) peril.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Nov. 9, 2009
Recession Prompts Americans to Make Huge Sacrifices A stay-at-home mom goes without an important condiment.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Nov. 9, 2009
Dow Closes Weirdly High “You would never go to the grocery store and pay a higher price because someone else did, but that’s what happens in stocks.”
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Nov. 6, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Nov. 4, 2009
New York Gets Bonus Unemployment Benefits for Being Really Unemployed To keep over one million Americans from losing unemployment benefits, the senate voted unanimously to pass legislation extending benefits across the country.
By Zeke Turner
the great american hustle
Nov. 4, 2009
‘Cash for Clunkers’ Hugely Successful at Buying People New Pickup Trucks If you thought people were trading in their old Ford F150s for Toyota Priuses, you were horribly wrong.
By Zeke Turner
the greatest depression
Oct. 30, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Oct. 29, 2009
Burglars Now Too Poor to Afford Proper Masks A pair of criminals tried to disguise themselves using household goods. Failed.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Oct. 29, 2009
Can a Recession Be Over If No One Believes That It Is? These are the questions we ponder as the economy technically grows, but our lives continue to suck.
By Jessica Pressler
the most important people in the world
Oct. 28, 2009
50 Cent Will Teach You to Be Rich The noted financial commentator and artist sees opportunity in the recession.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Oct. 27, 2009
Dopamine: The Fashionable Neurotransmitter for 2009 Can a science piece about a brain chemical be linked to the recession?
By Lindsay Robertson
schnabulosity
Oct. 23, 2009
William J.B. Brady: The White Knight of the Pink Castle The Credit Suisse banker buys the undervalued Palazzo Chupi triplex.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Oct. 21, 2009
By Adam K. Raymond
the greatest depression
Oct. 21, 2009
The Financial-Crisis Lit Cheat Sheet The best bits from the flood of books recapping last year’s Wall Street meltdown.
By Moe Tkacik
the end of greenwich
Oct. 16, 2009
Greenwich Residents Forced to Sell Heirlooms Off the Side of the Highway “They show up dressed very fancy, maybe wearing their Rolexes,” but their starving bodies and hollow eyes reveal their desperation — to be on television.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Oct. 14, 2009
By Adam K. Raymond
the greatest depression
Oct. 14, 2009
Dow Closes Above 10,000 10,015.86, to be exact.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Oct. 14, 2009
It’s Okay to Be Happy About the Dow Hitting 10,000 “A lot of people make fun of these milestones, but I think that it has an effect on psychology,” says an analyst.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Oct. 12, 2009
Two Other Americans Win Nobel Prizes These two economists have even been grappling with some of the same problems as the most recent American Nobel winner! But the reaction will probably be, shall we say, different.
By Chris Rovzar
the greatest depression
Oct. 8, 2009
By Lindsay Robertson
the greatest depression
Oct. 2, 2009
Unemployment News Goes From Bad to Worse The unemployed, economists say, are “disappearing.”
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Oct. 1, 2009
Let’s All Shed a Tear for the Country’s Richest Billionaires Mayor Bloomberg and the rest of the combined ‘Forbes’$2 400 actually lost wealth last year.
By Dan Amira
the greatest depression
Sept. 28, 2009
Is Wall Street Wasting Money on Chuck Schumer? The No. 1 recipient of financial contributions is acting more populist than Wall Street would like.
By Dan Amira
the greatest depression
Sept. 25, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
wacky old folks
Sept. 25, 2009
Wacky Old-People Hobbies All Totally Validated We have seen the future, and it involves canasta.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Sept. 21, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Sept. 15, 2009
The Greatest Depression: 9/15/2008 – 9/15/2009 Ben Bernanke says the recession is over, but we will not forget it. A video tribute.
By Jessica Pressler
early and awesome
Sept. 15, 2009
Bernanke: ‘The Recession Is Very Likely Over’ The Fed chairman calls the end of the year of our discontent.
By Jessica Pressler
finance fiction
Sept. 15, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Sept. 11, 2009
Where Citigroup’s Going, They Don’t Need Roads Citi is becoming a “bank of the future” by catering to folks just like us.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Sept. 4, 2009
Unemployment Hits 9.7 Percent We’re breaking records, people!
By Chris Rovzar
ballsy crime
Sept. 2, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Sept. 1, 2009
Bank of America Wants Out of Special Ed Ken Lewis no longer wants his bank to be designated as an ‘exceptional’ TARP recipient.
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Aug. 31, 2009
Hey, Congress, Hank Paulson Thinks You’re Idiots “I amuse myself a lot by thinking what would happen if I said, ‘Do you realize what an idiotic question that is?’”
By Jessica Pressler
the greatest depression
Aug. 31, 2009
By Jessica Pressler
bump in the road
Aug. 30, 2009
Hit by Recession, Cocaine Dealers Resort to Cold-calling “I’ll keep doing it until it stops working. But I don’t like small talk. I don’t like having to ask them how their day was.”
By Adina Wise
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