Recession 101: Five Primers Explaining How We Got Here
By now, you’ve probably heard some or all of these phrases: frozen credit markets, mortgage backed securities, collateralized debt obligations, credit default swaps. But just what the heck do they...
View ArticleIt Won’t Get This Bad, Will It? Eerie Photos of the Great Depression
If you think this recession is bad, imagine what life was like during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Presented below are my favorite five photos from that era. Hopefully, our current economic...
View ArticleHow to Use Recovery.gov: 7 Tips for Browsing the Bailout Bill Web Site
As web searches have recently shown, Americans are very worried about the economy. So it wasn’t a moment too soon that the Obama administration announced the launch of Recovery.gov. A week later, he...
View ArticleDancing in the Motor City Graveyard: Beautiful Photos of Detroit’s Abandoned...
People are finally getting the message: the economy is bad right now. Still, you can still hear the doubters on occasion; “Ford didn’t need the bailout, even if GM did;” “the whole mortgage crisis and...
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