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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
From The Room: This Recession Sucks
January 13, 2009 - First of all, after being in it for more than a year, I still don't know what to call it. Is it a recession, a depression, a correction, a downturn? It's the P. Diddy of financial disasters. Second, it has no pizzazz. In the Great Depression they lived...Filed under: economy, economic depression, depression, recession, money, world depression, American Idol
23/6 Video: Saudi Prince Asks for Bailout
January 12, 2009 - Introducing HRH Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal. He owns you, us and them. And ladies, he's single. (Saudi-single... he only has one wife...Filed under: Eugene Mirman, Eugene Mirman Videos, Eugene Merman, Eugene Mirman Prince Alwaleed, Prince Alwaleed, Citigroup, bailout, recession, Citigroup bailout, Prince Alwaleed Citigroup, Prince Alawaleed, Eugene Mirman as Prince Alwaleed, Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian princes, richest people in the world, Prince Alwaleed MSNBC, MSNBC
If life gives you lemons: make Obama Stimulus Juice
January 13, 2009 - How does an incoming president who promises change and bold break from the usual style of Washington pandering sell his new policies? By respecting the people enough to be straight with them focusing group testing all the new policies. According to Bloomberg, the Obama team is...
America's gone to hell, handbasket makers now out of work
January 9, 2009 - Well, it's over. You've gotten just about all the sympathy sex you're going to get out of having been laid off. Nobody's going to shed any more tears for you, because unemployment is now at 7.2 percent, a 16-year high, with more than a...
New Obama speech, "The Economy Sucks," drops at 11 AM
January 8, 2009 - Anticipation is high as President-elect Barack Obama is set to drop another sure-fire hit of a speech this morning, tentatively titled "The Economy Sucks." The speech airs at 11, and Chris Matthews is expected to be sobbing by 11:09...Filed under: Barack Obama, Economics, the economy, Recession, Great Depression II, Recession 2008, recession 2009, barack obama speech, barack obama recession speech, barack obama on economy, barack obama speech at 11, obama to speak about the economy, obama speech january 8th, obama speech january 8, obama economy speech january, obama economy speech
From The Room: Celebrate Bad Times, Come On!
January 7, 2009 - The Inauguration will soon be upon us, and I can't wait for Obama to take office, but it hardly seems the time for a party. I don't want to be a wet blanket here, and I'd be the last one to want to destroy the party industry...Filed under: Inauguration, Obama Inauguration, economy, economic collapse, Inaugural balls, party, partying in recession, recession
Poll: Why can't everybody be as nice as the IRS during the recession?
January 7, 2009 - With the recession driving all of America to consider prostitution, the IRS is showing their nicer side. They're waving tax penalties and postponing asset foreclosures, doing all they can to renegotiate payment plans to keep stru...Filed under: IRS leniency, IRS leniency plan, IRS recession, IRS lenient, IRS economy, IRS taxpayers, IRS news, IRS seizures, IRS foreclosures, IRS new policies, IRS recession policies, IRS lenient policies, IRS lenient taxpayers, IRS helps taxpayers, IRS financial crisis, IRS economic crisis, IRS defers, IRS payment plans, IRS, Internal Revenue Service, recession, economic crisis
Seven things we'd like to see finished up before New Year's
December 30, 2008 - Okay we know it's been a busy year, but the country doesn't shut down just because everyone's been drinking egg nog. We've still got about 50 or 60 hours to get some shit out of the inbox and into the outbox (that sounded sexual but we...Filed under: Year in review, 23/6 year in review, minnesota senate race, al franken, minnesota senate race, minnesota senate race franken coleman, norm coleman, coleman franken, al franken minnesota race, norm coleman minnesota race, minnesota recount, minesota recount, recession, economic crisis, economic depression, 2008 recession, bailouts, u.s. economy, bad economy, economy failing, future of u.s. economy
"Getting unpaid vacationed" is the new "getting laid off"
December 24, 2008 - Many companies are avoiding layoffs by cutting costs. Unpaid vacations, four-day work weeks and wage freezes are three job-saving techniques in use at Dell, Cisco and Motorola. A web design company in San Francisco, Hot Studio, eliminated bonuses for the first time in 12 years. Said owner Maria...
From The Room: Bank of America's Wacky Idea to Save the Economy (Listen)
December 23, 2008 - ...Filed under: Bank of America, economy, economic collapse, recession, depression, ATM, ATM voices, saving the economy, Dave Chappelle, Jim Gaffigan, Carlos Mencia
All we want for Xmas is $17.4 billion
December 19, 2008 - Happy holidays, auto industry! Today President Bush announced that the federal government will be making loans to troubled car giants General Motors and Chrysler, in the hopes of keeping them afloat. Bush said that he made the decision to put the burden on taxpayers due to the recession, but that...Filed under: auto bailout, car bailout, auto industry, bailout, recession, president bush, george w bush, recession spending, general motors, chrysler, automakers
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: 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...
