Recession Survival Tips

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Go Forward...Go forward. Weakened by a string of one-night stands with stress, I often awakened to illnesses that were hard to shake.  I found it difficult to offer tips on surviving the recession when the recession, apparently, had me in a chokehold so firm that John Cena would be envious.  I could not give without first... 

Change We Can Believe In Mr. Obama is determined to address the nation’s health care crisis, despite the terrible economic conditions and an already ambitious agenda that is meeting resistance from politicians in his own party.  The statistics are dire:  45 million Americans have no health care insurance, those who... 

Chrysler and General Motors will close approximately 3,400 dealerships by the beginning of next year.  This represents 187,000 people that will be unemployed when all the announced closings are finished.  These numbers are huge.  Over 25% of Chrysler’s dealerships will be eliminated, while GM will eliminate over 40%... 

Reports of conspicuous consumption's death have been greatly exaggerated. For the last few years, our economy was so awash in cheap credit that conspicuous consumption became the norm.  Many economists and social critics were predicting the end of conspicuous consumption because of the new socioeconomic realities brought... 

Hearing politicians, economists, and others amongst the chattering classes begin to whisper that maybe we have hit the bottom of our economic freefall, I am reminded of one of my new favorite horror movies, 2005′s The Descent.  In the movie, four adventurous women descend two miles into an uncharted cave.  Of course,...