Increasing our employability has become a bit of a national obsession as unemployment figures continue to rise. Recent figures in America show that jobless claims have hit a whoooping 500, 000 for the first time since November 2009. (See: Rebound: A Proven Plan for Starting Over After Job Loss, Adobe Reader) As people desperately go [...]
Hot Dan Brown Book: The Lost Symbol It is common knowledge that working long hours is not good for our health. With levels of unemployment rising each week, more and more people are doing punishing schedules at work without complaining. They know pushing themselves that little extra may offer them immunity when the inevitable pandemic [...]
Hot Book: Cook Yourself Thin: Skinny Meals You Can Make in Minutes A shift in social trends is revealing how women are earning most of the money in this recession and according to information released by the Bureau of Labour Statistics, women are also earning at least 80 per cent of mens’ earnings, which [...]
As the labour market continues to shrink, credit crunched people in America are seeking solace on luxury Manduka yoga mats (See: Manduka BlackMatPRO 71-Inch Yoga and Pilates Mat) while job seekers in the United Kingdom are now reversing the laws of economics by sending off their CV’s and applying to work for free. This recession trend is slowly gaining momentum as most companies struggle to [...]
No one was fooled by the recent stock market rises (See Time article) seen over the last few trading session in New York and London. While some in the media may be prematurely celebrating the appearance of economic “green shoots”, tens of thousands of workers continue to be slaughtered in the weekly mass culling of the [...]
An experiment was once carried out to find out how sheepish we can be. A man stood outside a door in the freezing cold on a street somewhere in Moscow for absolutely no reason. Soon enough a queue began to form behind him, and within a few hours, hundreds of people formed a neat [...]
“There’s nothing to fear but fear itself.” It’s hard to take comfort from Roosevelt’s words in the real world. However, a tiny voice in my head keeps asking the question: Are we all being marooned into a catatonic state of panic and fear by unseen hands who are profiting from all the economic chaos? Obsessive fixation on the constant flow [...]
Dust down that trophy jacket with the shoulder pads. Vintage fashion is back. This time it’s not just a flash-in-the-pan trend. With predictions of a long drawn recession, those chic clothes tossed at the back of the wardrobe will have to be fished out and revamped. For many fashion-savvy people, the crunch is no excuse [...]
For some enterpreneurs, the credit crunch must have come as a blessing. Many of the desertedWoolworth shops that once graced Britain’s high streets, are now occupied by budget super stores whose main attraction to cash strapped credit crunched shoppers, are the enticing 99p-for-everything signs displayed boldly at their entrances. Their low-cost strategy seems to be working – everything from brand new pots and pans [...]
They say money is the root of all evil – for some, this is hitting the proverbial nail on the head. Not only has the hard economics times brought on a surge in companies imploding under the weight of their debt, but it is becoming very evident that the seams of many high profile marriges are coming apart [...]
