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From The Feed: Dave Ramsey wants you to stay the hell away from the economy (video)
June 11, 2008 - On "Fox and Friends" Dave Ramsey gives us economic advice (God help us all...Filed under: Dave Ramsey, Fox Business, Money Matters, Economy, Federal Spending, deficit, recession, X-box
Math Quiz: Gas vs Food
May 23, 2008 - A recent Reuters/Zogby poll found that with prices of gas and food so high, consumers may be driving less, but they are definitely not eating less. This isn't such a surprise cons...Filed under: gas prices, oil prices, 3.80 gallon gas, 3.80 gas, 3.80 per gallon, $130 barrel oil, $130 oil, $130 barrel, 130 barrel, 130 per barrel, 130 oil, oil 130, oil $130, Americans driving less, Americans less driving, rising gas prices, rising food prices, American eating habits, foreign oil, obesity, health, American economy, recession, recession economy, recession American economy, oil prices, rising oil prices, gas food poll
From The Room: $175 Burger? Does That Come with Fries?
May 20, 2008 - I finally know what to spend my economic stimulus check on... A $175 burger! I suggest everybody else in NYC does the same. Scratch that, everyone should do the same: you've got your checks, why n...
From The Room: When You Care Enough to Avoid Calling
May 19, 2008 - With the American economy tanking, few industries are experiencing a boom in business equal to that of Greeting Cards. 23/6 knows it's hard to find the time (or words) to console others when you're busy manning you...
From The Room: Restaurants Respond to Rising Prices
May 15, 2008 - "Bottled or tap?" is the first thing we're asked in restaurants, which always irritates me. The bottled water option seemed to coincide with the "paper or plastic" choice at the supermarket, with both questions making a statement about our values. Tap = cheap just as plastic = not ecologically awar...
From The Room: Pussy Cars
May 2, 2008 - Americans are just freaking out over high gas prices, and this freak-out has led to something quintessentially un-American. One in five cars sold have been compacts. Oh, you don't see what the problem is...Filed under: compact cars, subcompact cars, gas prices, recession, American recession, gas prices Iraq, gas tax holiday
From The Room: Hedge Funders Are All Right!
April 16, 2008 - It is a well-known, true fact that Americans love their rich people rich and their robber baron financial overlords catastrophically wealthy. When the richest hundredth of a percent of the population sees a rise in their income despite a country-wide recession, it makes the poorer, or "worse," peopl...
The "Ask The Ultra-Rich How to Survive The Recession" Magic 8-Ball
April 15, 2008 - As the housing crisis expands beyond the United States, one group of people is not hurting at all: the ultra-rich. A 37-year-old investor told the New York Times, "On a spending level, [the recessio...
Sub-prime mortgages are killing man's best friend
April 10, 2008 - Animal shelters are already pretty depressing, but they're getting worse thanks to the sub-prime mortgage crisis. According to an article in Wednesday's Washington Post, animal shelters are filling up wit...Filed under: subprime loans, sub prime loans, subprime loan crisis, subprime mortages, Countrywide Financial, Subprime mortgage crisis, recession, subprime recession, subprime pets, subprime foreclosures, subprime lending, abandoned pets, predatory lending, New Century Financial Corporation, New Century Financial, housing market, Bear Stearns, subprime Bear Stearns, economic downturn, economic recession, write downs, subprime crisis, housing downturn
From The Room: Lowering the Bar
April 8, 2008 - I wandered into Starbucks again this morning seeking to validate my already bloated sense of self importance via a grand American morning tradition--by ordering a caffeine concoction with over six words in its name, and which costs more than your averag...Filed under: Starbucks, Starbucks Pike Place, Pike Place, Pike Place Roast, recession, Nicole Kidman, McDonalds, Dunkin Donuts
World's Worst PR Guy spins for: America
April 7, 2008 - A New York Times/CBS poll reports that 81 percent of respondents said they believed that "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." As 23/6's resident PR flack-on-retainer explains, this is simply a case of looking at the glass as fourth-fifths empty...Filed under: New York Times CBS News poll, 80000 unemployed, 81 percent off track, recession, depression
From The Room: Just Shoot Me
April 4, 2008 - The newspaper should come with an anti-depressant. Here are the stories we New Yorkers were greeted with this morning: 81% of people polled say the nation is on the...
The gnawing feeling in your gut that America sucks? Confirmed
April 4, 2008 - A New York Times/CBS poll reports that 81 percent of respondents said they believed that "things have pretty seriously gotten off on the wrong track." In 2003, only 35 percent of respondents agreed with that sentiment...Filed under: New York Times CBS News poll, 80000 unemployed, 81 percent off track, recession, depression
From The Room: Overhauling Ass
March 31, 2008 - OVERHAULING ASS President Bush unveils his blueprint for overhauling the financial system today--the biggest economic re-do since the Great Depression...Filed under: George W. Bush, Bush economy, Bush recession, recession, waterboarding, torture Geneva Conventions, Hurrican Katrina, FEMA, wetlands
From The Room: Horton Hears a Hooverville: Revamping the 30s for Today's Depression
March 27, 2008 - Have you heard the news? Times is hard. We may be headed for another Great Depression. But the 1930s sure do need...
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