Tag: economy

Aaron R. Davis I don’t really do the holidays. It’s not that I’m some kind of lone wolf, proud of my isolation from family and friends as they go about the greeting card industry-mandated motions and expend the energy and tension necessary to have some vaguely unsatisfying holiday-like …

Joel Murphy There has been a lot of talk lately about the government’s $787 billion stimulus package (and recently House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that Congress needs to “keep the door open” for another stimulus package later this year). But while the government’s plan may get all of …

Courtney Enlow I’ve made mention of it in the past, but now I feel that it’s time to tell you my harrowing tale. Shortly before Christmas, I was told that my real-life job, the one I’d worked in since mere weeks after graduating college, no longer existed. Actually, …

Joel Murphy Every year on December 31, many of you evaluate your life and come up with a list of New Year’s resolutions. As for me, at the end of every year, when I take a look at myself in the mirror and reevaluate my life, I come …

Ned Bitters This week’s inductee into the “Overrated Hall of Fame” is … George Bailey’s lending practices (and the vilification of Ebenezer Scrooge). At least one good thing might come out of the economy going straight down the shitter. Maybe the sappy lot of bleeding heart Americans who …