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Financial Markets Fallout Radioactive

The highly toxic and radioactive assets in the latest round from the global stock market chaos has led to a dearth of advice on surviving the fallout. But certain suggestions …


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Europe and Asian Stocks Plummet

It looks like even earthquakes in far off Kyrgyzstan were not able to keep the planetary brain off the Almighty Dollar (or Euro, or Yen, or…), and it looks like the crisis may be getting even deeper: the United States Index of Homeless Families who Live in Motels in Massachusetts has …

WaMU Seized: Apocalypse at Hand

The time of reckoning has arrived: Washington Mutual (WaMu) Seized by Feds, Bought by JP Morgan Chase. Apparently, JP Morgan, previously known for snapping up Bear Stearns, has now taken another piece of the american pie. Its also rumored they will be moving their …

Bad News, in Jest

It is truly bad news: David Foster Wallace dead of suicide at age 46. GB, RIP, we will all remember the supposedly fun thing to never do again.

Gustav: Destroyer of Culture

People seem to be saying that the GOP is responsible for the doom inflicted on The Big Easy during Hurricane Katrina. And while the editorial stance of ParanoidCulture staff is that Doom itself is completely bipartisan, the timing of Hurricane Gustav does make one wonder, in a swarm-of-locusts, frogs-from-the-sky, Great American Dustbowl kind of superstitious …