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The Greatest Depression

  1. Obama’s Job Summit Already Working!The country only shed 11,000 jobs last month, which is good, and unemployment is now at 10 percent, which is good.
    By Dan Amira
  2. sand traps
    Dubai: Bowed, But Not BrokenDubai has stabilized, but they probably won’t be building any luxury underwater resorts anytime soon.
    By Hugo Lindgren
  3. made-off
    The Hottest Spot in Palm Beach in Post-Madoff Times? Consignment ShopsThis is an almost cute story.
    By Chris Rovzar
  4. the greatest depression
    Ben Bernanke Joins the Debate Over His Second TermHe thinks he should get one.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  5. intel
    Things to Be Thankful For This Year: No Marauding MonkeysThis year, we’re being thankful for the things that have not happened.
    By Jessica Pressler
  6. awesome things
    Judge Tells ‘Vexatious’ Bank to Shove ItA verbose judge relieves a Long Island couple of their $525,000 mortgage.
    By Jessica Pressler
  7. ballsy crime
    The Life and Loves of Danny PangDanny Pang conducted romantic as well as financial fraud.
    By Jessica Pressler
  8. the greatest depression
    What Should Goldman Sachs’s New PR Strategy Be?Discuss.
    By Jessica Pressler
  9. the greatest depression
    Goldman’s Sachs-Cloth and Ashes Tour ContinuesThree hundred Goldman employees are spending this Thanksgiving on garbage duty.
    By Jessica Pressler
  10. white men with money
    Vikram Pandit Will Continue to Make $1 Per YearThe Citigroup CEO continues his reign of austerity.
    By Jessica Pressler
  11. the geithnerator
    Geithner Paid AIG Counterparties in Full Because He ‘Lacked Leverage’ With BanksTo which TARP inspector general Neil Barofsky says: “Hello, you’re their regulator. THAT’S your leverage.”
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Bernanke: ‘The Best Thing We Can Say About the Labor Market Right Now Is That It May Be Getting Worse More Slowly’Well, that’s … great.
    By Jessica Pressler
  13. the greatest depression
    Househusbands Are the New HousewivesJust like in the eighties!
    By Jessica Pressler
  14. white-collar welfare
    Severance Economy Next Shoe to Drop?Some of the people laid off during the Greatest Depression have been unable to adjust to their new environment, to their (and our) peril.
    By Jessica Pressler
  15. the greatest depression
    Recession Prompts Americans to Make Huge SacrificesA stay-at-home mom goes without an important condiment.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Dow Closes Weirdly High“You would never go to the grocery store and pay a higher price because someone else did, but that’s what happens in stocks.”
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Unemployment Rises to 10.2 PercentThe recession lags on.
    By Jessica Pressler
  18. the greatest depression
    New York Gets Bonus Unemployment Benefits for Being Really UnemployedTo keep over one million Americans from losing unemployment benefits, the senate voted unanimously to pass legislation extending benefits across the country.
    By Zeke Turner
  19. the great american hustle
    ‘Cash for Clunkers’ Hugely Successful at Buying People New Pickup TrucksIf you thought people were trading in their old Ford F150s for Toyota Priuses, you were horribly wrong.
    By Zeke Turner
  20. the greatest depression
    New York Still the Center of the Financial UniverseYay?
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Burglars Now Too Poor to Afford Proper MasksA pair of criminals tried to disguise themselves using household goods. Failed.
    By Jessica Pressler
  22. the greatest depression
    Can a Recession Be Over If No One Believes That It Is?These are the questions we ponder as the economy technically grows, but our lives continue to suck.
    By Jessica Pressler
  23. the most important people in the world
    50 Cent Will Teach You to Be RichThe noted financial commentator and artist sees opportunity in the recession.
    By Jessica Pressler
  24. the greatest depression
    Dopamine: The Fashionable Neurotransmitter for 2009Can a science piece about a brain chemical be linked to the recession?
    By Lindsay Robertson
  25. schnabulosity
    William J.B. Brady: The White Knight of the Pink CastleThe Credit Suisse banker buys the undervalued Palazzo Chupi triplex.
    By Jessica Pressler
  26. the greatest depression
    Treasury Orders Pay Cuts for Rich Guys at Bailed-Out CompaniesBut they’ll still be rich.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  27. the greatest depression
    The Financial-Crisis Lit Cheat SheetThe best bits from the flood of books recapping last year’s Wall Street meltdown.
    By Moe Tkacik
  28. the end of greenwich
    Greenwich Residents Forced to Sell Heirlooms Off the Side of the Highway“They show up dressed very fancy, maybe wearing their Rolexes,” but their starving bodies and hollow eyes reveal their desperation — to be on television.
    By Jessica Pressler
  29. the greatest depression
    NYSE Threatened by Upstart ExchangesIs Kansas the new Wall Street? Nah.
    By Adam K. Raymond
  30. the greatest depression
    Dow Closes Above 10,00010,015.86, to be exact.
    By Jessica Pressler
  31. the greatest depression
    It’s Okay to Be Happy About the Dow Hitting 10,000“A lot of people make fun of these milestones, but I think that it has an effect on psychology,” says an analyst.
    By Jessica Pressler
  32. the greatest depression
    Two Other Americans Win Nobel PrizesThese two economists have even been grappling with some of the same problems as the most recent American Nobel winner! But the reaction will probably be, shall we say, different.
    By Chris Rovzar
  33. the greatest depression
    Harvard Students Want Everyone to Know They Can’t Even Feed ThemselvesHow good could those bacon-and-egg breakfasts have been, anyway?
    By Lindsay Robertson
  34. the greatest depression
    Unemployment News Goes From Bad to WorseThe unemployed, economists say, are “disappearing.”
    By Jessica Pressler
  35. the greatest depression
    Let’s All Shed a Tear for the Country’s Richest BillionairesMayor Bloomberg and the rest of the combined ‘Forbes’$2 400 actually lost wealth last year.
    By Dan Amira
  36. the greatest depression
    Is Wall Street Wasting Money on Chuck Schumer?The No. 1 recipient of financial contributions is acting more populist than Wall Street would like.
    By Dan Amira
  37. the greatest depression
    Warren G’s Rules for Surviving the RecessionHow does he do it?
    By Jessica Pressler
  38. wacky old folks
    Wacky Old-People Hobbies All Totally ValidatedWe have seen the future, and it involves canasta.
    By Jessica Pressler
  39. Crisis-Defining Moment Occurs at Michael Moore PremiereWe know: annoying.
    By Jessica Pressler
  40. the greatest depression
    Recession Helping Young Couples Prepare for the Relentless Penury of MarriageBecause we all know what marriage means: MISERY.
    By Jessica Pressler
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    The Greatest Depression: 9/15/2008 – 9/15/2009Ben Bernanke says the recession is over, but we will not forget it. A video tribute.
    By Jessica Pressler
  42. early and awesome
    Bernanke: ‘The Recession Is Very Likely Over’The Fed chairman calls the end of the year of our discontent.
    By Jessica Pressler
  43. finance fiction
    Neurotic Citigroup’s Weekend Phone Call to TreasuryAs usual, Daily Intel has obtained the transcript.
    By Jessica Pressler
  44. the greatest depression
    Where Citigroup’s Going, They Don’t Need RoadsCiti is becoming a “bank of the future” by catering to folks just like us.
    By Jessica Pressler
  45. the greatest depression
    Unemployment Hits 9.7 PercentWe’re breaking records, people!
    By Chris Rovzar
  46. ballsy crime
    Hassan Nemazee Fooled Banks TwiceAt least!
    By Jessica Pressler
  47. the greatest depression
    Bank of America Wants Out of Special EdKen Lewis no longer wants his bank to be designated as an ‘exceptional’ TARP recipient.
    By Jessica Pressler
  48. the greatest depression
    Hey, Congress, Hank Paulson Thinks You’re Idiots“I amuse myself a lot by thinking what would happen if I said, ‘Do you realize what an idiotic question that is?’”
    By Jessica Pressler
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    Wait: Are Taxpayers Really Seeing a Profit From the Bailout?The ‘Times’ says yes, our (admittedly poor) math says no.
    By Jessica Pressler
  50. bump in the road
    Hit by Recession, Cocaine Dealers Resort to Cold-calling“I’ll keep doing it until it stops working. But I don’t like small talk. I don’t like having to ask them how their day was.”
    By Adina Wise
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