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An iPhone app that feeds into recession rage? The idea in the “Squash the $treet” video game is to squash as many “shady bankers, creepy fraudsters and corrupt CEOs” as you can — for cash. (CNBC)
Who is behind the Recession 101 ad campaign? It has to be someone who would profit from people getting their minds off the recession. (New York/Daily Intel)
The poor economy is taking a toll even on the dead, with an increasing number of bodies in Los Angeles County going unclaimed by families who cannot afford to bury or cremate their loved ones. (Los Angeles Times)
Economist Simon Johnson and Obamanomics author John Talbott say there’s plenty of blame to go around for the economic crisis. (Salon)
The global recession has now passed its nadir but the financial crisis still has some time to run and it will be a year at least before banks start lending again in earnest, according to a poll of analysts. (Reuters)
Chadwick Matlin spends a day on the Mississippi River tracking some of the Federal stimulus money. (The Big Money)
A new “real misery index” feature aims to provide a more accurate gauge of what is happening in the lives of millions of Americans as a result of the ongoing economic hard times. (Huffington Post)
Martin Feldstein, a professor of economics at Harvard University, sees the risk of a “double-dip” recession looming. (Bloomberg)
The recession is killing British pubs at an accelerating rate, an average of 52 every week in the first half of the year, an industry group said Wednesday. (USA Today)
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