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—>A depressed woman has lost her benefits because her insurance agent found Facebook photos where she appears to be having fun. More »
—>The Senate just released 88 pages of a confidential 270+ page marketing plan by Forest Laboratories, created in 2004 and focused on how to get doctors to prescribe the antidepressant Lexapro over similar but cheaper alternatives such as Celexa. The New York Times notes that the line between marketing and education seems to be heavily blurred, which may not surprise you. There are, however, two interesting notes for consumers who may be taking Lexapro. More »
Fox News reports that there are now bread lines in Southern California. Still no word yet on the reappearance of tin can fires. [Fox News] More »
—>Good news thrifty diners, you're not the only ones asking to share dishes at restaurants these days. Thanks to the recession, it's becoming acceptable for everyone to split their dishes, and restaurants aren't complaining. "Now all bets are off," said David Pogrebin, manager of the snazzy French restaurant Brasserie. "People are not ashamed of being frugal." More »
Tonight at 9 eastern Frontline's new documentary "Inside The Meltdown" will debut on PBS and online. We've only seen the trailer, but the press release makes it sound like the scariest documentary in the history of the universe. More »
—>Yes, we're saying the "D" word. Now that we've officially entered a recession — it's time to wonder if we're in a depression. We'd love to be able to give you a yes or no answer, but according to Marketplace's personal finance guy, Chris Farrell, nobody agrees about what makes a depression different from a recession. More »
—>Why waste precious cash at Borders and Barnes & Noble when you can go to the library for free? It's a simple question that is causing traffic local libraries to spike as flocks of new patrons register for library cards. We've praised libraries before, but it takes a depressing recession to convince people that yes, even they could use an extra buck in their wallet. More »
—>The New York Times says that half of doctors responding to a nationwide survey admitted to routinely prescribing placebos. More »
—>Floyd Norris at the New York Times is live blogging the global financial panic today, and has compiled a list of how the world's markets have performed in October. Compared to some countries, our situation doesn't seem that bad. Which is scary. More »
—>Last week, Slate published a list of children's books about poverty, unemployment, shoe-eating, dust bowls, depressions, and recessions. From a late-19th century series called The Five Little Peppers through to 2007's How To Steal a Dog, the list captures over 100 years of poverty-level slice of life—what we might call the Plight of the Raggedy Children. More »
—>Thanks to the New York Post, we know there's a 48-year-old man named Richard Cruz somewhere in Manhattan who's hoarding his daughter's college fund in a shoebox. We even know what he looks like, because in the photo that accompanies the article, Cruz is posing on the sidewalk with his withdrawn cash like he just won the shoebox lottery. "'No one hides their money under a mattress any more,' he said. 'That's the first place people would look.'" Good thinking. More »
Is [it] a biologically driven disease of the brain, a learned habit run amok, an addiction in its own right or a symptom of the other dysfunctions—most notably depression—that so often accompany it? More »
—>The ongoing subprime meltdown is merely the first destructive wave of credit catastrophe to wash over Wall Street, according to Slate's resident explainer. Americans drunkenly bandy credit around in several forms: mortgages are the most prevalent loans turning sour, but credit card debt, student loans, and auto loans are silently conspiring to threaten our macroeconomic well-being. More »
—>Today marks the 20th anniversary of the "Black Monday" crash of '87, in which the stock market lost 22.6% in one day, the second largest one day percentage drop in history and one we're not likely to see again any time soon. More »
