Archive for tag: bailout

Recession Journal #5: The Calm Before the Storm

April 8, 2009 10:17 am Career Advice, Economy

But for all the bad stuff that has happened and the harrowing stuff that’s being foretold, it feels like we’re in limbo. I would like to believe that we dodged the bullet and it’s time to rebuild. But that belief would in no way be built on logic or reason. It’s time to pay the piper and our credit cards are maxed out.

It’s Not Working!!!

February 27, 2009 1:33 pm Economy

It’s time to consider the sobering possibility that there is nothing we can do except grow up and learn to accept the consequences of our overspending. It’s time to accept that we cannot avoid a deep recession any more than we can keep winter from coming… it’s time to just let things take their course.