Archive for the 'Collapse' Category
Florida Car Dealership: Save Your Cash, Use Your Gold as Down Payment
October 30th, 2009Via: Bob Dance Automotive: Bob Dance Gold Rush Program Take advantage of soaring gold prices! Use your old or unwanted jewelry and gold as DOWN PAYMENT! Save your cash!! $$$$ Precious metal appraisers on site Just another way Bob Dance Automotive makes car buying easy
National Insanity: British Parents Not Allowed in Parks With Children Unless They Complete Police Background Checks
October 29th, 2009Via: Telegraph: Only council-vetted “play rangers” are now allowed to monitor youngsters in two adventure areas in Watford while parents must watch from outside a perimeter fence. The Watford Borough Council policy has been attacked as insulting and a disgrace by furious relatives who say they are being labelled as potential paedophiles. It will further […]
More Mexicans Turn to the Lynch Mob as Crime Spirals Out of Control
October 28th, 2009Via: Global Post: The five teenage boys slump against the wall of a dark house and eye the camcorder nervously. Suddenly, a fist enters the frame smacking one of the boys in the face. Then the barrel of an automatic rifle appears and the teenagers’ expressions turn to terror. “Why are you here?” shouts a […]
Recession Drives Surge in Youth Runaways
October 26th, 2009Via: New York Times: Dressed in soaked green pajamas, Betty Snyder, 14, huddled under a cold drizzle at the city park as several older boys decided what to do with her. Betty said she had run away from home a week earlier after a violent argument with her mother. Shivering and sullen-faced, she vowed that […]
Shadow Market, Defiant Homeowners
October 26th, 2009Via: Miller McCune: It’s been almost a year since Horatio Bernard effectively lost his Baltimore row house to foreclosure and roughly 15 months since he last made a payment on his primary mortgage. And yet to his amazement and those following his story, Bernard continues living in the home with his ailing mother without any […]
Detroit Attempts to Auction 9,000 Properties for as Little as $500; 80% Had No Bids
October 26th, 2009Via: Reuters: In a crowded ballroom next to a bankrupt casino, what remains of the Detroit property market was being picked over by speculators and mostly discarded. After five hours of calling out a drumbeat of “no bid” for properties listed in an auction book as thick as a city phone directory, the energy of […]
Capmark Files for Bankruptcy With $21 Billion in Debt
October 26th, 2009Via: Bloomberg: Capmark Financial Group Inc., the lender owned by companies including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and KKR & Co., filed for bankruptcy protection after posting a second-quarter loss of about $1.6 billion. The company listed consolidated debt of $21 billion and consolidated assets of $20.1 billion as of June 30, according to Chapter 11 […]
Indiana: 500 Applicants for One $13 Per Hour Job Before Company Pulled Ad
October 25th, 2009Via: New York Times: As soon as the job opening was posted on the afternoon of Friday, July 10, the deluge began. C.R. England, a nationwide trucking company, needed an administrative assistant for its bustling driver training school here. Responsibilities included data entry, assembling paperwork and making copies. It was a bona-fide opening at a […]
Strategy to Survive Winter in Alaska Without Any Money? “Rob” a Bank, Sit in Lobby, Wait for Cops to Arrest You, Keep You Warm and Feed You
October 25th, 2009Via: Anchorage Daily News: Timmy Lee Porter walked into a Midtown bank this month and handed a teller a note scribbled on the back of a bank slip. “This is a bank robbery, place 1 100.00 bill on the counter or I will shoot you.” Police arriving on the scene moments later found that note […]
FDIC Friday: Bank Failures Now 105 for 2009
October 23rd, 2009Via: CNN: The tally of bank failures easily broke past the No. 100 milestone on Friday night, with regulators announcing the year’s 105th closure. That’s more than four times the number that were closed in 2008, and the highest total since 1992, when 181 banks failed. Earlier on Friday evening the dubious honor of the […]
