The short and simple story of the credit crisis. This is the thesis work of Jonathan Jarvis, a student at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and reminds me of that great This American Life episode from last fall. It's kinda fun to watch.
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A philosophical comparison between Oprah's massive weight gain and America's financial crisis. If Oprah represents the credit crunch, does that make Steadman George W. Bush? (Because, you see, both are nowhere to be found.)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/05/iceland.credi...
Iceland — named the world’s best country to live in by the U.N. last year — is facing total financial ruin in the fall-out from the global credit crisis. Residents are hoarding food and the currency is now rated just above Zimbabwe.
Business Buzz Where to watch the meltdown of Wall Street. I’m not usually one to obsessively check the Dow, but today has been a wild show. Dow, S&P 500, Nasdaq — take your pick, they’re all looking pretty grim.
Politics Buzz He may be holding the economic fate of the world in his hands — his manly, sexy hands. The internet is calling him a hottie. Insert “he can bail me out anytime” joke here.
Business Buzz Some of the best online explanations of why the financial world is currently going to hell. These are the clearest, cleanest descriptions I’ve found so far of what’s going on with the financial crisis: how it started, how it got this bad, and what it might mean. Please add links you’ve found helpful.
Tech Buzz A site that helps you auction off your bad investments to the U.S. government. Submit your shitpile, including what you thinks its value is, and browse through other piles people are trying to unload. If Washington is buying toxic mortgage securities, maybe they’ll buy your old copies of Cat Fancy magazine.
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