Check out this episode of This American Life as they cover the folks who are investigating what went wrong with our economy. You know, besides the fact that greedy, unscrupulous bankers are allowed to run wild and steal from everyone.
Category Archives: Economics
Unemployment | Marketplace from American Public Media
Marketplace had a great series recently on the subject of unemployment and how it is handled from state to state.
You’d be surprised on how valued it is in progressive states and how ignored in the southern, anti-union, anti-worker states. I mean, you would expect certain trends, but not the true disparity that exists between, say, Oregon and South Carolina.
In short, conservative “red” states suck.
The Learjet repo man | Salon News
First, I loved this article because it shows that even the rich get their toys repossessed. Which is nice.
But mostly it’s a pretty good story about a hard guy doing a hard job. Someone ought to do a Dirty Jobs episode of this guy storming a jungle to nab some narco-douchebag’s Lear.
How Google Earth explains the financial crisis | FP Passport
This article is pretty instructive in both how bad the global economy has gotten and in how good our tools for analyzing such things beyond what the Dow is at have gotten.
An interactive map of vanishing employment across the country. – By Chris Wilson – Slate Magazine
Kind of a chilling animation as you watch the map progress and jobs disappear. If you still haven’t bought into the “this is an actual recession” concept, this may help.
It is Un-American not to want to pay taxes – iReport.com
The embed code isn’t working for some reason, but give this a look.
And, if you dare, read the hateful Sieg Hiel-like comments from people who I thought we going teabagging today.