Year-End Round-Up: Our Top Posts
December 30, 2009Jon Brooks Comments OffWhat a year it’s been at EconomyBeat. Lay-offs, health-care trauma, long-term unemployment…honestly, this is not the kind of blog you want to see go on forever. One can only hope that its very premise — documenting the copious material online borne of massive economic dislocation and an historic financial crisis — becomes irrelevant sooner rather than later.
But until then, we carry on…
Our top posts for the year:
(15) CEO pay vs. minimum wage – How many minimum wage earners does it take to equal the salaries of the top eight corporate chief executives in 2008? This infographic illustrates.
(14) Google job interview cheat sheet – what they ask you at the Big G before they give you the key to the washroom
(13) Not an Onion headline – “Toronto Star copyeditor edits memo announcing elimination of copyeditor jobs”
(12) Market psychology + narcissism + sex drive = flannel shirts? – reverse engineering the roots of trends
(11) Sometimes, it just takes a single index card – sardonic visualizations of economic and other relationships
(10) Inappropriate comment of the day – An unemployed woman responds to her father’s comment that “she doesn’t want to work.”
(9) There, I Fixed It - “epic kludges and jury rigs”
(8) Who are the worst tippers? – Waiters and waitresses respond.
(7) EconomyBeat podcast: Local currency bucks the dollar – Some towns issue their own currency to encourage local spending, and it’s legal.
(6) Best of Craiglist: Economy version – particularly interesting and/or humorous user posts as indicators of the horrendous economy
(5) Repaired Things – The blog – gluing, taping, sewing, propping, and even peanut buttering broken stuff
(4) Merry Recession! – recession-themed Christmas cards
(3) Friday photo gallery – images from the Great Recession
(2) Health care reform explained – on the back of a napkin – the whole shebang in simple slide format
(1) Geography of a recession – animated map of unemployment rates by county from January 2007 to the present. As the map turns from lighter (more employed) to darker (less), you get a good sense of the economy’s deterioration.
