The Really: We need a tagline for this new Greatest Recession Of All Time: sort of the way “Brother can you spare a dime” was emblematic of 1929? Well today in an article in the New York Times a young woman came up with a great one. I hope she gets proper credit if not [...]
The Really: The Depressions are bigger this year and the snowstorms will be too! An unusual March snowstorm will drop a foot of snow from Atlanta to Maine and NYC will be right in the middle of it. Not the Great Blizzard of 1888 pictured above or perhaps not even as big as 1969 or [...]
The Really: The normally recession proof oldest profession is actually taken a hit from the recent international economic downturn. The New York Times wants you to know it is particularly bad in Prague.
The Really: Maybe Preston Sturge’s classic film is just what we need right now. It’s Sullivan’s Travels and it was in a string of hits by the highest paid director/writer of his time Preston Sturges. Released in 1941 it tells the story of director John L. Sullivan who wants to make a social-problems film called [...]
The Really: End of the world as we know it music to help you on your commute home (if you have one).
The Really: Neil Young is making the coolest electric car in history? Put on the Cinnamon Girl and click the link to see how the Y of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young has dedicated his money to an electric car enterprise that does what no other electric has done before it. The Lincvolt is awesome. [...]
The Really: The banks never loaned that bailout money? Today Congress got around to asking banks why they are HOARDING the bailout money while soon one out of three houses on the market will be a repo, hundreds of thousands lose their jobs, and the stock market wends its way towards 3 figures? Meanwhile back [...]
The Really: Bank international bailout plan marks end of market slide? Dow Up +936.42 (11% market value gain)
The Really: Is this REALLY the Great Depression Revisited? Perhaps the one truly perplexing thing about the current economy is how much the experts really don’t know about the current financial meltdown. There is a surprising dearth of perspective about what this will mean for the average person. I did run across an interesting survey [...]