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tags:  economics  real estate  nyc  tha jerz
posted at 15:51 on 6.19.09
tags:  economics  class warfare  bailout  idiots
posted at 09:39 on 4.11.09
tags:  politics  economics  idiots
posted at 15:38 on 3.27.09
tags:  heroes  comedy  economics  gaming
posted at 07:28 on 3.18.09
tags:  idiots  politics  economics
posted at 18:41 on 3.15.09
tags:  economics
posted at 23:00 on 3.09.09
tags:  economics
posted at 21:19 on 3.08.09
tags:  POTUS  politics  economics  Britan  oh snap
posted at 19:45 on 3.08.09
tags:  Jon stewart  idiots  economics
posted at 17:52 on 3.05.09
tags:  humor  gaming  economics
posted at 11:31 on 2.22.09
tags:  design  economics  education  Recession  news
posted at 16:26 on 2.20.09

economics:

Interactive NYC/NJ foreclosure map

Look at the clusters, and then think about median incomes for the most densely affected areas. Predatory lending? No question. Makes me ill.

Salon: Stop protecting Wall St. from Main St.

This together with the Economist’s observation… we’ve got the makings of a class war! Giddyup!

Congress saw financial crisis coming in 1999

They totally called it:

I think we will look back in 10 years’ time and say we should not have done this but we did because we forgot the lessons of the past, and that that which is true in the 1930’s is true in 2010” Oops.

Stewart vs. Cramer unedited free on XBox Live

Nice to have saved on the console for future viewing.

Palin pulls most earmark dollars per capita in nation

Oh yeah. She’s clearly against pork spending…

Here’s hoping not…

Good riddance.

Circuit City is dead. RIP to the City.

Obama snubs Gordon Brown

Uh oh. I’m having a hard time teasing this all apart. This article (from the British media) makes Obama out to be overworked, overstressed, and not paying any attention to foreign policy. That said, I think the Brits probably got used to overly rosy love-fests when Bush was in office, and the reality is that POTUS does have a real shitter of a domestic crisis on his hands.

But that said, while him being to busy to drop everything and feed Brown supper seems plausible, the mentions of fatigue, exasperation, and a general sense of being overwhelmed are troubling. Then again, isn’t that part of any new job? Not to mention taking said job during the escalation of the worst economic crisis the modern world has ever seen?

Just for giggles, I’d love to see how bizarro-Earth 3-term Bush would be handling any of this…

CNBC: Idiots.

Jon Stewart shows us how balding white men everywhere don’t know WHAT THE FUCK they’re talking about. The whole financial sector appears to be staffed with idiots. This debacle makes tragic, depressing sense now.

Wall Street Fighter. Natch.

The credit crisis, explained wonderfully, and presented using exquisite motion graphics.