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So, 600,000 jobs lost last month, huh? Well then there’s no better time for our weekly financialisticle Big Money Mondays, wherein we chronicle moments of incongruous extravagance in a world otherwise headed for the bread line. Following our long tradition of charting trends in the luxury goods markets, this week’s listicle, courtesy of mental_floss, features [...]

On this lovely sunny morning we learned that the U.S.A. has reached a 7.2% unemployment rate, a 16-year high. Though our souls immediately turned to despair and we sank our sorrows into an Irish coffee and a playlist of movies about economic hardship, we slowly realized that unemployment is one of the most vital trials [...]

With our media cycles accelerating to the point of time travel, some great 2009 lists caught our eye before the year even began. More risky than lists that summarize past events, we especially like prediction lists for offering a thrilling vision of what the future might look like. To get an idea of what the [...]

With companies cutting back on full-time employees and office space, freelancer numbers sky-rocketing and home offices becoming extra bedrooms to be sublet, work will only become more mobile in 2009. That’s why we’ve devoted the year’s first edition of our weekly finance listicle, Big Money Mondays, to finding the best and most personalized item every [...]