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Dante and Plato and Marx, oh my! Financial mess makes old writings new

By Chris Steller | 03.16.09 | 4:37 pm

dante-plato-marxPopping up in news pages with disturbing regularity since the economy started sinking are dead guys who wrote, centuries ago, about things like eternal agony, arbitrary tyrants and endemic economic crises. Dante, Plato, Marx — are we entering a…

Job-loss charts compare slumps in bright spring colors, clean lines

By Chris Steller | 02.10.09 | 8:44 am

2-job-graphs“Sex in the City”–type handbag obsessions are so mid-2007. The accessory of the moment is the handbasket — instead of Gucci, think Dante. It’s not whether we’re entering a depression; it’s all about getting there in style. The latest…