Sex, Dating & the Recession
People are feeling more vulnerable than ever, and one of the best ways to minimize stress and anxiety is seeking comfort in being with friends and lovers.
People are feeling more vulnerable than ever, and one of the best ways to minimize stress and anxiety is seeking comfort in being with friends and lovers.
The salient and problematic underlying political reality is that it climate change the culmination of longstanding processes of colonization and realpolitik.
US greenhouse gas emissions are falling quickly in 2009 and bringing us within close reach (a few years) of 1990 levels.
As if there wasn't enough anxiety around the topic of love. Then you throw in money and etiquette and a first date can become about as exciting as a trip to the dentist office.
She is not a narcissist. She just has the good sense to realize she is better and more deserving than most people to rule the planet and prepare humanity for the end of days.
We may be in for a rebirth of the Carmel/Ann Arbor spirit, on both sides of the cash register. Scrappy people seem to be turning up everywhere, figuring out how to work even though their previous rug has been pulled out from under them.
Several events of the past week should be a wake-up call to the Obama administration. The bottom line: the medicine isn't working. Stronger stuff is needed.
Enough already of all those silly, unduly sunny and unrealistic economic predictions that are proving to be as accurate as those woefully inept forecasts we get from the local weatherman.
It seems like common sense that the government should increase social spending when people are losing their jobs, but Republicans and Blue Dog Democrats don't see it that way.
14.7 million people are unemployed in the United States, 9.5 percent of the workforce. While there are a few signs of economic recovery, employment is...
There are some stories that you just don't know how to respond to. Consider today's news about plummeting real estate prices in Manhattan.
Let's have national policies that prevent exploitation of workers and the environment and that share prosperity. This is a choice between lifting each other up or continuing a spiral to the bottom.
There is a new strain of inconvenience which is lasting longer than a subway interruption. It's financial. Here are a few suggestions for living wisely in New York in these times.
Perhaps the recession is giving us more than just a tough lesson in fiscal responsibility. Perhaps we're also getting a lesson in gratitude.
Fighting against being defined by America's bygone eras, New Muslim Cool points us toward a more complicated future.
I believe what we witnessed last fall is the visible result of a complete re-ordering and reorganization of every single facet of the global economy by the combined power of information technology and the Internet.
With traditional media facing extinction and a disheartened, disinterested public, Toilet Paper Messaging (TPM) has emerged as one of the most effective marketing tools out there.
The hour-long treatment was subtle, yet incredibly balancing for my psyche. For the rest of the day I felt calmer and more content -- and I slept like a baby that night.
Our esteemed legislators in Springfield are getting their ducks in a row this week and when they're done, we'll be in for a nibbling like we never imagined.
Retirement investors under the age of 30 participating in defined contribution plans are seeing their accounts bounce back at a much faster rate than over-55 investors who are near retirement.
American arts organizations are threatened, but it is not the economy that poses the largest threat.
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Larry, you got that right.
Please Larry, make up your mind, are we going to recover or not. we will have no recovery as long as 50 Cents on the Dollar goes towards taxes, government will have to shrink before we can start recovering.
Remember when Larry Summers was getting grief for "working " for the hedge fund D E Shaw Group?Wikipedia stated he was part owner. Maybe the reason for the secrecy is D E Shaw Group is funding a wind farm corporation as shady as Enron. With a lot of Enron employees working for them ...and lawsuits everywhere they go.
Also benefiting from Obama's green energy iniative.
wow...the cronyism just goes round and round.
I love it. We are painting ourselves into a corner where the only solution will be the Fair Tax or violent revolution. Either way big government is done. The people can only save themselves with their own money.
Why does government have to confiscate your money and spend it to save the economy when you an can spend it instead?
Wise up Democrats, your savior's economic policies are destroying our country. Whatever he takes from the rich to give to the poor will only last as long as the rich are willing to produce it. When they decide it's no longer worth it, then we collapse.
We need to stop bailing out the rich. that's an important start. if they mess up, too bad! if you have investments with these big banks, you're money is part of a casino and you play at your own risk.
And this guy gets paid for pouting ssuch rubbish?
You could interview a man on the street and come up with better news most of the time than this crud!
Has anybody told him this is a free-falling depression?
he got the first three words right
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