Tag: recession
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Simple Explanation of the 2008 Financial Collapse
“The financial crisis wasn’t just ‘a bubble bursting.'”
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The Difference Between Frugal and Hoarding
“I don’t think frugality is about not spending, it’s about not wasting.”
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Don't Blame Student Loans for Rising Tuition
“Public schools used to be heavily, heavily subsidized and that has dwindled as Baby Boomers voted against funding their children’s futures.”
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Why the Banks Don't Give a Shit About Bitcoin
“Here is simple flowchart to tell what’s on a banks mind.”
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As Middle-Class Collapses, Brands Chase Richer Customers
It’s Neiman Marcus or Walmart or GTFO.
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The Legacy of Occupy Wall Street
“We stirred the pot, scum may still float at the top but now we are more aware of them.”
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A Systematic Rip-off of the Gullible and the Greedy
“The last two decades have been a systematic looting of the economy and the Treasury by bankers knowingly committing crimes.”
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Hard Work, Gumption and Bootstraps?
Commenter on Metafter: “Why are all newspaper comments turning into Free Republic? If you buy into the idea that anyone can make it in the US with HARD WORK and GUMPTION and BOOTSTRAPS, that turns poverty into a moral issue and the poor can be safely judged as inferior human beings because if they wanted […]