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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 [...]

Ghost towns were so 19th Century. The newest industrial specters are the massive abandoned box-stores now littering the paved outskirts of any-town America. Lagging sales at America’s big box chains, such as Home Depot, Sears and Kmart, coupled with the bankruptcies of chain stores like Circuit City, Linens n’ Things and Home Depot’s high-end brand [...]

We can write all we can about the financial crisis, but a picture is worth a thousand words.  Share your pictures and vision of the current recession on FICRY!
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Here is an interesting economic indicator; take a look at what appears to be hundreds of container ships docked and unused off the Singapore coast. If this isn’t a blaring example of putting the breaks on global trade, I don’t know what is. Since March 2009, 11.3 percent of the world’s shipping capacity has been [...]

California’s most notorious “tent city” was closed, on April 16th of this year, after operating for more than a decade. While white, middle class homelessnes achieves notoriety through Oprah, the plight of the lower class, the mentally ill and addicted is overlooked by the mainstream media. Click Here for more on fringe living from FICRY.com
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Check out the Ficry in Pictures! Here is a collection of all sorts of images that capture the changes caused by the financial crisis thus far.  Click on a thumbnail to start the slide show