Black Monday

Baghdad Car Bomb Kills 9 Day After Deadly Wave Of Attacks

AP | KATARINA KRATOVAC | Posted 05.08.2009 | World

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BAGHDAD — A salesman rescued a baby from a blaze ignited by a car bombing in a Shiite neighborhood Tuesday, reaching through the shattered windo...

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Girlfriends with Pink Slips

Dr. Irene S. Levine | Posted 03.01.2009 | Living

Read More: Friendship, Women, Fired, Depression, Living News, Unemployed, Female Friendship, Economic Crisis, Economy, Termination, Layoff, Washington Post, Pink Slip, Slate, Black Monday, Job Cuts, Living News
Dr. Irene S. Levine

The support of female friends can help a woman get over the traumatic emotional and financial losses associated with being fired or let go. What can friends do?

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Déjà Vu All Over Again

David Henry Sterry | Posted 11.24.2008 | Business

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David Henry Sterry

1500 points the market plummeted last week. This was preceded by months of money drunk Wall Streeters feeding like little piggies at the trough of dirty money. For me it's déjà vu all over again.

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W&W: Can Saving the Economy Save Us From Spurious Sarah News?

Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein | Posted 10.18.2008 | Politics

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Ted Johnson, Maegan Carberry, Teresa Valdez Klein

So, sorry, Ms. Palin, but something happened on Wall Street to bump you off the front page. A little major market crash, that's all. Now, the candidat...

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Let Our Economy Win! (John McCain's Latest Attack Ad)

Matthew Filipowicz | Posted 10.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Merrill Lynch, John McCain Economic Policy, John McCain, Lehman Brothers, Satire, Economy, Black Monday, Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy, Barack Obama, Recession, Politics News
Matthew Filipowicz

Just like if you criticize the war in Iraq, you're criticizing the troops, when you say the economy is bad, you're saying the American worker is bad.

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Lehman's Collapse Rattles the Really Rich

Vicky Ward | Posted 10.16.2008 | Business

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Vicky Ward

For most of us it is time to hunker down. Time to hope we don't get that phone call: "Are you OK?" The answer, for all of us in New York, is no, we are not.

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Recession Fears: Worry Like It's 1989

New York | Michael Idov | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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The news keeps coming, each item worse than the one before. New-home sales fall 26 percent nationwide; the U.S. economy loses 17,000 jobs in January; ...

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Dow Plunges On Black Monday Anniversary

AP | Tim Paradis | Posted 03.28.2008 | Business

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The Dow Jones industrial average dropped more than 360 points Friday -- the 20th anniversary of the Black Monday crash -- as lackluster corporate earn...

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