Would you rather lose your memory or your money? HBO's "The Alzheimer's Project" and Frontline's "The Madoff Affair" unearth your worst nightmares.
By Heather Havrilesky May 10, 2009
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This guy in our neighborhood has it rough, but I need to maintain clear boundaries
By Cary Tennis
August 20, 2009
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With huge numbers of men pushed out of the workplace, are we experiencing the death of macho?
By Amanda Fortini
June 26, 2009
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To reduce my household budget, I had to stare down my fears and ask the 99-cent store guy for a discount.
By Amy Reiter
April 27, 2009
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It probably isn't even the end of the beginning of the recession. We can't wish the economy back to health.
By Robert Reich
April 13, 2009
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My girlfriend doesn't know the value of a hard-earned dollar
By Cary Tennis
August 14, 2009
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He gets the utilities cut off. He doesn't file his taxes. And he's living with me!
By Cary Tennis
July 30, 2009
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College loans shouldn't create a class of the "educated poor"
By Amy Benfer
June 16, 2009
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I'm 38, still single, in a one-bedroom, trapped in debt.
By Cary Tennis
May 12, 2009
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I was fired and I'm making restitution, but I'm dying of shame.
By Cary Tennis
April 29, 2009
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We're going bankrupt and losing our house because he refuses to take a job.
By Cary Tennis
April 28, 2009
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My job prospects were diminishing, the economy was convulsing, but I said "screw it" -- and took a vacation I couldn't afford.
By Robert Lanham
April 13, 2009
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An adventure in the thrifty, nifty world of die-hard scavenging, where you won't believe what you can find if you just know where to look.
By Katharine Mieszkowski
March 30, 2009
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Inside New York's underground poker scene, where no one thinks about the recession, or their rent money, when there's a good hand to be played.
By Jim Rich
March 24, 2009
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President Obama figures out the key to selling his economic policies: Hide Tim Geithner.
By Mike Madden
March 24, 2009
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It's time to reform offshore banking, and see what untaxed wealth big business is hiding in overseas tax shelters.
By Joe Conason
March 23, 2009
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Salon's recession series zooms in on our new financial reality with a clickable map of personal stories about life in uncertain times.
March 16, 2009
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In a rotten economy, more adults are showing up on their parents' doorstep. I just never thought my wife and I would be among them.
By Rosecrans Baldwin
March 16, 2009
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The downturn is giving us new excuses for moral flagellation. But saving money won't save your soul.
By Judith Levine
February 25, 2009
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He took out loans for my education and spent it on bills.
By Cary Tennis
February 20, 2009
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The financial guru's Ponzi scheme cost me 30 years of retirement savings. How could he do this to me -- and why did I let him?
By Geneen Roth
January 7, 2009
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Everything you ever wanted to know about your 401K -- but didn't know how to ask.
By Amy Reiter
December 3, 2008
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I can't get up the nerve to tell my husband just how much money we've lost.
By Cary Tennis
December 1, 2008
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Margaret Atwood talks about the perils of debt -- and imagines a utopian future without greed.
By Louis Bayard
October 28, 2008
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I was a self-made stockbroker nailed by 9/11. Then I got into mortgages and it happened again!
By Cary Tennis
October 20, 2008
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A city awash in cards
Pay no attention to the treasury secretary behind the curtain
AIG is chump change -- let's find corporate America's hidden billions
Pinched: Tales from an economic downturn
How I ended up living with my in-laws
The case against thrift
I was fleeced by Madoff
Get rich slow!
Payback's a bitch
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