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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 [...]

Just in case you were a little bit fuzzy about how the whole debt-shifting, executive-compensating, tax-payer-scamming bailout is working, here comes Gawker with a handy little embellished chart and an explanation of just one of the many ways your tax dollars are being flushed down the gilded toilet.
As Gawker details in the tongue-in-cheek “Your Tax [...]

Those who were unsure of whether or not the financial climate would have a profound effect on the cultural zeitgeist around the world need look no further: straight from the BBC comes a report that 5,000 new words have been officially added to the ever-changing German language, many of them having to do with the [...]

By Andrew Otton, Featured Contributor, FICRY.com: To say many Americans are felling stressed and anxious about the FICRY takes no stretch of the imagination. So how are people coping? Well, many are probably calling a couple of their buddies, making sure there is cookie dough in the refrigerator, and lighting up their favorite bong. Although [...]

AIG painted The Saint Regis red for free on the taxpayers tab. Internet tabloid gawker reports that The St. Regis Monarch Beach is part of an elaborate scam to skim bailout funds and facilitate indulgences for banking elites courtesy of the tax-payers. When AIG executives celebrated the successful procurement of government cash at the luxury [...]

If you’re facing some tough economic times at the moment, perhaps it will be of some comfort to know you are in good company. The Queen of England is quickly running out of funds. In fact, barring a significant increase in taxpayer funding, the royal family will be completely broke by the year 2012. [...]

It is clear from the plethora of bad news about the real estate situation across the United States that no place and no island, is safe from the effects of our recession.  The latest tale of riches to rags comes from The New York Times online front page, reporting on the New England luxury island, [...]