jezenomics
"With all the talk about how to stimulate it, you'd think the economy was a giant clitoris,"
writes Barbara Ehrehreich of the recession everyone's talking about today. Stock markets are plummeting across the universe, the Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke cut interest rates, CNBC is blaring at me to buy technology stocks, and the President is wrangling with all the Presidents-in-waiting over what vibrator attachment package of tax cuts and subsidies will "prime" the consumption pump and get consumers like us in line orgasming over the next skinny jean/iPhone/tiny moving vacuum cleaner trend again. But as Barbara points out, the economy
isn't exactly one giant clitoris, but 300 million of them, some of which belong to obsessive masturbators and some of which haven't gotten close to a small motorized device in LIKE OMG DECADES. Or something like that. After the jump, we enlist the help of the
New York Times Magazine, the
Atlantic Monthly and Wall Street blog
Dealbreaker's Bess Levin to give you a practical guide to the recession, and how to cope if you still have savings to invest.
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