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When the rich get poor, the poor get even poorer.

Economic ‘Green Shoots’ in the spring kept moviegoers at the Box office for that old timey recession solution, escapism. But now that Oscar season is in full swing, and the FICRY reality has set-in, movie patrons may be opting for cheaper entertainment, like sitting around their computers.
During the summer season, the bread and butter for [...]

In the past, America’s teenagers and students have occupied a unique place in the job market. They have served as our nation’s babysitters and camp counselors; they’ve flipped our burgers and delivered our morning papers.
Today’s financial crisis, however, has put the teenage demographic in a bit of a bind. As unemployment escalates, many laid-off adults [...]

No one likes to get bad news after well, a lot of bad news, but that’s exactly what the New York Times has been splashing all over its front page. It would have taken a lot to sugar-coat it, so the Times gave it to us straight: after a year-long perfect storm  Wall Street is [...]

As if we needed more proof of the pending fashion world apocalypse (because bargaining on the floor of Saks Fifth Avenue last Christmas wasn’t enough), the self-titled “queen of snark” Maureen Dowd questions the relevancy of one Anna Wintour, Vogue editor-in-chief, deemed The Last Empress in her Sunday column. Dowd uses the new documentary on [...]

All you eager young hopefuls out there better gear up, because the stakes just got a little bit higher. The New York Times reports that, in the last couple of years, intern head hunting agencies have given wealthy students a leg up. In the wake of the financial crisis, and with more and more students [...]

Amidst all the frenzy over cost-cuttings and business-foundering, another industry that has been emblematic of the recent boom takes a hit. And who better to act as its arbiter than one of the most celebrated chefs of the last decade, the over-stretched and overexposed reality-show starring Gordon Ramsay? As reported today in the Wall Street [...]

While some on Capitol Hill will use this month’s slight drop in unemployment rate as evidence of the stimulus’ slow but steady success, their excitement may be overlooking a couple of key statistical details. First of all, while the rate of job loss has decreased from 9.5 to 9.4%, the number of unemployed Americans is [...]

Exactly one month ago, FICRY published a piece asking one hotly-debated question: Is College Really a Waste of Time or are the Right-Wing Pundits Trying to Make Us Stupid? Now from the BBC comes the shocking story of one woman who sued her college for being a waste of time. According to the article, 27-year-old [...]

When you’re starting a blog people always tell you to “find your niche” and fame and fortune will follow. If you want to make it in the highly fickle and judgmental online world and become a bonafide internet celebrity (which would still only make you a D-list celebrity), you’ve got to do something that’s never [...]

Poverty in Detroit is forcing people to fish in contaminated waters, despite the government’s warning that eating Michigonian catch can be fatal. Journalist L.L. Brasier reported that the state of Michigan sold 703,695 fishing licenses in 2007” around the time the state began to slip into a deep recession. This means that the number of [...]