The Way We Live Now: Optimagically. We choose to believe that good times are ahead despite plain evidence to the contrary. As long as someone somewhere can bail someone else out, it’s luxury condos…
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Don’t Blame the Rich, or Golfers, or Rich Golfers [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: Blaming the victim. People, stop! It’s crazy! We know you’re angry about your unemployment and poverty and endless coupon-clipping. But golf-happy bankers are not the…
College: Now Free With Purchase of High School [Trendwatch]
Disturbing trend: Non-rich kids are being allowed to get college credit while still in high school—an activity previously reserved for hoity-toits in AP classes. Wealthies, if it’s any…
Nuts [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: Unfulfilled. We can’t enjoy our bonus check. We can’t scam others. We’re finally building casinos when nobody has the money to gamble. Worst of all, we may never know the taste…
Hoard Your Money, For God’s Sake [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: recalibrating our responsibilities. In tough times, we can’t be expected to support certain causes as effusively as we once did. Such causes include, but are not limited to:…
Why Waste Your Time in College When You Could Be Finding a Dead-End Job? [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: enamored with strategies doomed to backfire. College? Big waste of money. Taxing the rich? You’re punishing the best and brightest. When will the unemployed just start working…
A Scientific Theory of the Economic Progression of Total Brokeness [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: Like a smooth criminal. Well, “smooth” is not quite the right word. Desperate? Yes. And occasionally inept. There are no banks left to rob. There’s no bull market left to…
Bad Things Might as Well Happen to People Who Are Already Miserable [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: Piling tragedy atop tragedy, in a towering tree of tragedy. It is not enough that the underclass exists; they must be made to suffer above and beyond their already harsh…
Things Were Surely Better Back in the Hypothetical Good Old Days [Recessionomics]
The Way We Live Now: bicycling towards oblivion. Toyota’s given up on cars. The young lady winking at you’s a professional gold digger. And everyone who can’t run fast enough to keep their job is…
Iceland: The Bright Side [Silver Linings]
A new study says that out of all the countries in the world, the most environmentally great is Iceland, “which gets virtually all of its power from renewable sources” like burning the abundant…