Entries Tagged as 'unemployment'

Saturday, November 21st, 2009

On Men

I stopped maturing in college.  Other guys I know became men: businessmen, administrative men, corporate men, manly sportsy men,…  Their culture is experiencing a bit of a dip in popularity right now, as many, having lost their jobs, are having trouble hanging onto their expensive/employment-defined personas.  They are reverting, as it is, back to adolescence.  [...]

Saturday, March 14th, 2009

The Big Ditch

The financial term, “depression” originated as a gentle way to label the economic decline that we call the Great Depression as it began, in the same way now we might hear a commentator refer to a “downturn,” let’s say.
 
So, what will we call it if we are headed towards the same or worse financial disaster [...]