15. Who are the worst tippers? – Waiters comment on which groups of people are the worst tippers, and no one is spared. (Dec 9, 2009) Previous entries: 25. Colorado Springs: City of the future? – Anti-tax haven Colorado Springs finds itself in desperate fiscal straits, touching off schadenfreude and defensiveness on the Web. 24. [...]

16. Podcast: Local currency bucks the dollar – cash-strapped communities throughout the U.S. make their own money (Nov 12, 2009) 16. Defriending over health care – Did you defriend anyone on Facebook, or were you defriended, in the midst of the furious health care debate? (Mar 25, 2010) 16. Cards of change – altered business [...]

17. Repaired Things – The blog – collection of pictures of things that have been repaired (from Oct 22, 2009) Previous entries: 25. Colorado Springs: City of the future? – Anti-tax haven Colorado Springs finds itself in desperate fiscal straits, touching off schadenfreude and defensiveness on the Web. 24. Sub-prime the Musical – college student [...]

The F in the web site FMYLife doesn’t exactly stand for “fabulous,” if you know what I mean. Here, people post short anecdotes about what’s recently gone wrong in their world, and since they’re about somebody else, they’re often quite funny. Some related to money and work: Today, I received a call from a collection [...]

21. If persons were treated like corporations – Political cartoon from Kevin Moore’s In Contempt site. 20. Rappin’ economics – Rap adaptation of the classic econ textbook “Principles of Economics.” 19. Friday photo gallery Oct. 9 2009 18. Facebook “likes” by city – 210 million Facebook profiles broken down into which pages users click the [...]

From the blog EV Grieve: Something that all the foreclosed homeowners out there might not find so amusing. A 13,000-square foot dog facility is opening up near Wall Street. The Fetch Club will include an indoor dog park, “social club,” hotel/spa, and boutique. Great. The Fetch Club. When they open up The Kvetch Club, gimme [...]

From the blog Tales From the Recently Laid Off:

Confessions of a former unemployed</strong>

Since I’ve been employed now via contract work I’ve been playing in pseudo-employed world. Having a job and feeling self-sufficient has been euphoric, but honestly there’s a post-traumatic unemployment disorder (PTUD) that’s become a part of me. I’ve talked to friends who’ve felt similarly after being laid off. It’s this late-night-in-your-head-never-leaving-nagging-voice that waits for the floor to disappear. When is it going to happen again. When I’m going to be left with nothing. It has nothing to do with the present and all with the past and while I struggle to regain fiscal confidence, I also struggle to regain personal confidence as well.

<strong>Anatomy of a Doom and Gloom Blog Post

I just read a post at another blog and it says we’re all doomed

Cited passage from another economics blog which says the economy is in fact headed straight to hell. The citation also includes at least one basic mathematical error and/or one misunderstanding of a basic economic concept or number which a simple reading of the data explanations would have avoided. For example, “not in the workforce” has a very specific meaning — or, more specifically, it does not mean that everyone who “left the workforce” simply ran away from the job market screaming to the hills. As another example, the unemployment rate is a lagging economic indicator.

Because this above referenced web site said we’re doomed, it must be true.

In addition, all government economic numbers are wrong.

Last week, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania said it won’t make a scheduled bond payment of $425,282 due on May 1st. Some commentary: Mish’s Global Economic Trend Analysis I do not like Munis here. For starters, I think there will be a number of counties in Florida that go bankrupt. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (the state capitol) is likely to [...]

As we head toward the finish line at EconomyBeat, we continue to count down our top 25 posts. These three are tied at No. 22: 22. The Skyscraper Index – This metric shows that the world’s tallest buildings rise on the eve of economic downturns. 22. Chances of passing a health care bill – On [...]