Not since Ronald Reagan’s reckless free marketeering have we seen unemployment this high: The U.S. jobless rate hit 8.1 percent in February, with 651,000 jobs cut during the month. The Guardian: Unemployment in the US has surged to 8.1%, hitting its highest rate since 1983, as struggling emplo...

The markets are dropping, the sky is falling, Bobby Jindal is about to take over America. The King of Antigua just raided your trust fund and Lehman is still the best job on Wall Street and it already went under. Welcome to the Brave New World of Ivy League Poverty, in which the value of silver-spoo...

As we are now officially in recession our diarist of hard times among the middle classes questions its effects on the lives and ambitions of her children's generation....

Remember yesterday... when everything was awesome and hopeful? Well, with this morning's coffee came the cold hard truth once more: the economy is seriously stinking up the joint, and it only seems to be getting worse. Logitech's announced their third-quarter earnings (down 70 percent) and simultane...

By Russell Longcore I'm looking at the New Year through the glasses of an insurance adjuster and risk manager...ME! What I'm seeing ain't good. Sometime early in 2009, Barack Obama will know just how bad things are, and will realize that the luckiest man in the USA is John McCain because he didn't w...

Julie Salt is fed up with being hard up and gets some Christmas shopping therapy....

Yeah, doing laundry. :P We had a Rock Band night last night, and Dan had picked up Rock Band 2 (just the game), so we had some new songs to play. So that was cool. Plus we imported over the songs from the first game as well. I had checked out some of the songs before people came over, and of the one...

I haven't been doing much, now that there is no work to go to. I get woken up at my usual wake-up time by the cats, though, who are doing the pee-pee dance, so that's normal. I am doing my best to keep Jack indoors, and it's working so much better now that I'm actually home to enforce it. *lol* Dan ...

The House yesterday narrowly failed to approve a proposal to give jobless workers an extra three months of unemployment benefits, but Democratic leaders said they would bring back the bill for a second vote today....

House Democrats are likely to drop a 13-week extension of unemployment insurance benefits from a major spending package that includes continued funding for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and that would create a new education benefit for military veterans returning from the battlefields....