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Considering the ultimate "opt-out"? Five ways to choose life during the Recession
January 14, 2009 - Why is it that rich people keep killing themselves while the poor and middle class continue to vote "present"? Are we more resilient, o...Filed under: recession tips, five ways to choose life during the recession, recession life tips, five ways to choose life, financial crisis tips, economic crisis tips, financial crisis, economic crisis, recession reality TV, recession layoffs, unemployment, recession booze, recession condoms, recession suicide, financial crisis suicide, economic crisis suicide, Wall Street suicide, recession suicide trend, recession suicide numbers, Wall Street crisis, unemployment suicide, unemployment rates, recession
Stimulate my package
January 7, 2009 - Inspired by the success of the Big Three CEOs, Larry Flynt and Joe Francis drive to Washington to ask for a $5 billion porn bailout...Filed under: porn bailout, porn recession, Larry Flynt recession, Larry Flynt bailout, Larry Flynt poor, Joe Francis recession, Joe Francis bailout, Joe Francis poor, Joe Francis needs money, porn financial crisis, porn economic crisis, recession porn, Wall Street porn, Wall Street crisis, economic crisis, financial crisis
From The Room: Getting Back on the Horse
December 23, 2008 - All you sailors, Farmer's Almanac editors and practicing Wiccans out there know that this past Sunday was the winter solstice, marking the shortest day in the northern hemisphere. I spent the brief day and long night snug in my well-appointed quarters, watching a Big Love marathon...
From The Room: The One Constant: Bernanke's Beard
December 17, 2008 - Throughout the Financial Crisis, the bailouts, the stimulus package, the foreclosures, the layoffs, and all of the other crap that's been going on in the economy this year, one thing has remained constant; one thing has remained unchanged by the upheaval of our economy; one thing has remained unfett...
From The Room: Week Dollar Forcing Baseball Free Agents to Demand Compensation in Pesos
December 17, 2008 - New York, NY -- Baseball commissioner Bud Selig is said to be considering a request from the Players Association that would change the league's payment currency from the Dollar to the Peso. If he approves the deal it will mark the first time professional athletes in this country h...
From The Room: 2009 Emergency SAG Strike/Economy-Minded TV Schedule
December 11, 2008 - A Hollywood insider scumbag passed along the following top secret document to me: a sample week of television programming that the networks and cable outfits have designed with the looming Screen Actors Guild strike and overall budget considerations in mind. Behold the future of entertainment...Filed under: SAG, SAG strike, Screen Actors Guild, Screen Actors Guild strike, economy, economic downturn, economic crisis, Wall Street crisis, Wall Street collapse, Stock Market plunging, recession, depression, tv, entertainment, network tv, NBC, ABC, CBS, networks in trouble, networks collapsing, Jay Leno, Frank TV
From The Room: Score! Brian's Gonna Have to Marry Me Now That the Economy Sucks!
December 11, 2008 - Omg. Brian's company totally laid off 7% of it's workforce today, him included. His company has no more production team, and middle management will probably be replaced entirely by Columbia interns. This is it! Brian totally can't dump me now! In fact, I bet he's gonna...
How to tell i-bankers they're not getting a bonus this year
December 9, 2008 - Wall Street bankers are still having trouble swallowing the whole "you don't get bonuses for crippling a global economy" thing. Merrill Lynch's CEO John Thain recently asked his board for a $10 million...Filed under: Wall Street bonuses, Wall Street bonus cuts, Wall Street bonuses cut, Wall Street budget cuts, executive bonus cuts, Wall Street executive bonuses, Wall Street executives, CEO bonuses, CEO bonus cuts, Wall Street recession, Wall Street crisis, Wall Street jobs, Wall Street job loss, Wall Street unemployment, financial crisis, economic crisis, Wall Street bailout
From The Room: A Detailed Analysis of the Economic Bailout in Monopoly Form
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From The Room: Thanks for Nothing
November 24, 2008 - Like an asthmatic, flat-footed brainiac on the dreaded gym class mile run (not to divulge too much about my adolescent self), we as a nation are now grimly limping toward the end of the year, teeth gritted, bracing ourselves for the next spasm and wondering if there's anything...
From The Room: Henry Paulson Suggests Allocating $35 Billion of Rescue Funds to Henry Paulson
November 24, 2008 - NPNR's David Overbearing reports on Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson's testimony before the House Financial Services Committee...
Identity thieves - Forgotten victims of the financial crisis
November 21, 2008 - As recently as 2006, identity theft was still considered one of the most lucrative fields of non-violent crime for computer literate Americans to get into. But with so many Americans losing their homes and drowning in debt, stealing the right identity has become much trickier. A single social secu...Filed under: financial crisis, identity theft, financial crisis identity theft, economic crisis, Wall Street crisis, stock market crash, economic crisis identity theft, identity theft crisis, Wall Street bailout, economic bailout, 2008 bailout, identity crisis, midlife crisis, American economy, global economic crisis, Wall Street, Fannie Mae scandal, Freddie Mac scandal, Fannie Freddie crisis, mortgage crisis, loan crisis, stockmarket crash 2008
From The Room: Pimp My Bailout
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Fannie and Freddie will not kick you out of your house on Christmas Eve
November 21, 2008 - Mortgage rapists Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have announced that they are postponing home foreclosures until after the holidays. No one has to worry about being escorted from their homes by marshals until...Filed under: Fannie Mae foreclosures, Freddie Mac foreclosures, Fannie Mae postpones foreclosures, Freddie Mac postpones foreclosures, Fannie Mae holiday foreclosures, Freddie Mac holiday foreclosures, Fannie Freddie foreclosures, Fannie Mae crisis, Freddie Mac crisis, Fannie Mae bankruptcy, Freddy Mac bankruptcy, Fannie Mae suspends foreclosures, Fannie Freddie postpone foreclosures, Fannie Freddie home loans, financial crisis, holiday foreclosures, holiday home foreclosure, economic crisis, housing finance crisis, loan crisis, Wall Street Crisis, Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac
From The Room: CEOs Say They May Have to Cut Back on Hookers and Blow
November 21, 2008 - Washington, D.C. -- The CEOs of several investment banking, insurance and financial services giants appeared before the House Financial Services Committee Thursday to testify about the state of their companies' financial health. What the committee members heard were tales of despera...
