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Sunday October 5th

The Money Meltdown 20426

http://www.themoneymeltdown.com/

by coolguy Fri Oct 3rd, 2008 3:08pm (from #bor) [score: 136 | approval: 90%]

Everything you need to know about the global money crisis of 2007-?. More →

If you don't know, now you know

crisis, economics, economy, explained, us

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Tuesday September 30th

Playboy Laying Off Bunnies Amid Financial Crisis 20338

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/26/playboy-laying-off-bunnie_n_129615.html

by oblio Mon Sep 29th, 2008 1:01pm (from #bor) [score: 119 | approval: 69%]

Playboy Laying Off Bunnies Amid Financial Crisis

PLAYBOY boss Hugh Hefner is laying off some of his bunnies because of the credit crunch. The tycoon is reported to have been told to "strip back" loyal staff at his famous glamour empire. More →

crisis, playboy

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Economy Fail 20349

http://www.denverpost.com/portlet/article/html/imageDisplay.jsp?contentItemRelat...

by joeyo Mon Sep 29th, 2008 9:36pm (from #bor) *bumped by oweff* [score: 201 | approval: 89%]

A demonstrator holds up a sign behind U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (L) and Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke (R) during a hearing before the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee September 23, 2008 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The Bush administration officials were testifying about a proposed $700 billion bailout that they hope will stabilize the faltering U.S. financial system. More →

bailout, crisis, economy, fail

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SUPPORT FOR WALL$TREET CRISIS 20347

by joeyo Mon Sep 29th, 2008 8:32pm (from #bor) [score: 3724 | approval: 90%]

bailout, crisis, wall street

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Friday September 26th

New York Strippers Suffering During Stock Crisis 20293

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/19/new-york-strippers-suffer_n_127789.html

by oblio Fri Sep 26th, 2008 4:36pm (from #bor) [score: 90 | approval: 47%]

New York Strippers Suffering During Stock Crisis

Sources tell us traffic at some super-exclusive Manhattan nightspots is down 40-50% since the wheels came off. More →

crisis, snews, stock, stripper

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Wednesday March 29th 2006

A Poverty of the Mind 7139

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/26/opinion/26patterson.html?incamp=article_popula...

by mtoots Wed Mar 29th, 2006 2:26pm (from #bor) [score: 838 | approval: 0%]

One oft-repeated excuse for the failure of black Americans to take these jobs - that they did not offer a living wage - turned out to be irrelevant. Sociologists have shown that in New York such jobs offered an opportunity to the chronically unemployed to join the market and to acquire basic work skills that they later transferred to better jobs, but that the takers [...] More →