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Super Rich: Estate Sales Are Latest Solution

wsj.com | ROBERT FRANK | Posted 06.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Millionaires Struggling, Vero Beach Florida, Estate Sales, Fabulously Rich, Gilded Age, Richard and Amanda Peacock, Vero Beach-Florida, Business News

VERO BEACH, Fla. -- Richard and Amanda Peacock spent five years building their dream home, a 10,000-square-foot, orange mansion overlooking the ocean ...

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Some Hard Truth About Hard Times

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: History, Economy, Poverty, Political Humor, Economic Downturn, Crisco, Depression, Flappers, Alphabet Soup, New Deal, Economic Crisis, Scrimping, Franklin Roosevelt, Speakeasies, Recession, Fdr, Silver Tea, Redwood City, Great Depression, Rice, Saving, Norman Rockwell, Jazz Age, Bailout, New-Deal, San Francisco, Gilded Age, Politics News
Jeffrey Shaffer

Using the Depression as a baseline for discussions of national prosperity ignores an important historical truth: for millions of average citizens, money was tight prior to the 1930s.

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You and I Hate My Name

Dave Astor | Posted 04.15.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Paris, Layoffs, TV Converter Coupons, Rome, Financial Meltdown, Kathy Bates, John Jacob Astor, Eugene Debs, Titanic, Gilded Age, Hedge Funds, Bailout, Paul Robeson, Comedy News
Dave Astor

At a time when financial bigwigs have made a mess of the U.S. economy, the deserved scorn heaped upon these greedy "masters of the universe" poses a problem for people with blue-blood monikers like mine.

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People As Products: Taking Advantage Of The Elderly

Martin Bosworth | Posted 07.16.2008 | Business

Read More: Dave Johnson, Lazard, Assisted Living, Bruce Wasserstein, Investment, Economy, Atria, Nursing Homes, Gilded Age, Russ Wellen, Capitalism, Seniors, Business News
Martin Bosworth

The Atria management has been cutting services, cutting wages, reducing benefits, and demanding more from both its workers and the product itself -- the seniors.

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The Price of Oil, July 4th, and Chuck Berry

Jackson Williams | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, Anwr, Alaska, Alaska Oil, July 4th, Oil, Gilded Age, The Price of Oil, Chuck Berry, Great Depression, Politics News
Jackson Williams

Messing with the caribou does nothing to alter our energy plight, now or in the future, and shame on politicians who suggest otherwise to frustrated constituents.

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