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Epic Reuters FAIL

July 17, 2008 - This photo represents deep economic insecurity because: The Stanford alum is buying non-organic peaches. It's a pic of the good old days, when you could afford to hire two illegal aliens. Al...

Ask the Economy Magic 8-Ball

July 17, 2008 - Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke has testified before Congress for a second day Wednesday, and unshockingly, his economic outlook wasn...

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...

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...

Filed under: $175 burger, $175 hamburger, Wall Street Burger Shoppe, recession, economic stimulus, econonmic stimulus check, Vito Fossella, Fossella, Fossella affair, Fossella DUI, Fossella resigns, Vito Fossella resigns

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...

Filed under: recession, US economy, U.S. economy, economy recession, US economy recession, greeting cards, job openings, career opportunities

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...

Filed under: recession, economy recession, restuarants recession, recession restaurants, recession food costs, American economy recession, rising food costs

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...

Filed under: hedge funds, hedge fund managers, hedge funds Wall Street, Gilded Age, John Paulson, Paulson and Company, John Paulson hedge funds, recession, Obama bitter, George Soros, James H. Simons

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...

Filed under: ultrarich, superrich, luxury spending, extreme wealth, subprime mortgage crisis, economic crisis, economic downturn, recession, unemployment,

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...

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...

Filed under: Bear Stearns, Iraqi police, Iraq War, New York City Council, Cheektowaga, Abu Yahya al-Lib, job cuts, layoffs, unemployment, New York Times CBS News poll, 80000 unemployed

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

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