More anecdotes of woe from the site FMyLife. Today, after five months of not working, I have a check waiting for me at the office. Too bad the office is in another city. My gas tank is empty, and I have no money to put gas in my car. FML ——————————————————————————————————————- Today, I applied and [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday we referenced a Floyd Norris column in the New York Times called “Why So Glum? Numbers Point to a Recovery,” which discussed the persistence of gloom in the air despite an improving economic outlook. The American economy appears to be in a cyclical recovery that is gaining strength. Firms have begun to hire and [...]

Out of work with a lot of extra time on your hands? Check out the web site Daily Routines to learn how famous artists, philosophers, scientists, and statesmen organized their days for optimal productivity. For instance: Winston Churchill – awake at 7:30 am, breakfast in bed with mail and newspapers. Bath at 11, garden walk, [...]

Fast food is not only recession-proof, it’s recession-enabled. From an AP news story last year, during the heart of the downturn: Recession helps boost McDonald’s sales McDonald’s Corp. said Monday its same-store sales rose 7.1 percent in January, as cash-strapped consumers lined up for the fast-food company’s burgers and breakfast items. Total sales in January [...]

“These painful phone calls involve my trying to explain why I cannot pay a bill on time or in full or both. The person on the other end of the phone falls into one of two categories Either they’ve been in my shoes or they cannot possibly imagine being in my shoes.” Here’s a very [...]

And now we bring you The Brokers With Hands on Their Faces Blog, no explanatory text necessary I think. Click here for more photos of brokers with hands on their faces.

Living With Le$ is an online comic strip about a Wall Street money manager who loses his job and has to move back in with his parents. Start here then read all 36 episodes to date.

From the blog economicus ridulous comes this post called Blue and Broke, about the economic necessity of bartering instead of paying for certain extras, and the emotional toll it has taken. My sister’s son is getting married this summer. The invitation is sitting atop my fridge. The family lives in Ontario. I want to attend, [...]

At first glance, this post from the blog Fired For Now might seem rather banal, as it simply asks its unemployed and other Great Recession-affected readers:What have you had to give up? In reading through the answers, though, you may be hit with the reality of just what a profound effect this economic dislocation has [...]