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2. Be angry Anger is usually seen as a negative emotion, but it has at least one effect that would be useful in shortening the recession. Right now, lenders and ordinary consumers aren't risking enough. Entrepreneurs--even those with solid business ideas--can't get funding, so they can...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Feeling Our Way Out of the Recession | 1/29/2009 | See Source »

January is a big month for winter sports and post-Christmas sales. It's also - as people who treat substance abuse know - a big month for drinkers who want to quit. The holidays are over and bank accounts are thin, but addicts can't stop partying. Many choose January to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Battling Addiction: Are 12 Steps Too Many? | 1/27/2009 | See Source »

Then again, contemporary reality does have some useful innovations. Like an enlightened approach to sexual violence, for example. Here's Kyle's frat brother Joey, a putative good guy and our second male lead, thinking back on his memories of that night with his frat brothers: "If a girl consents...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Grisham's Charming Novel About Nothing | 1/24/2009 | See Source »

In a relatively stable economy, quarterly earnings releases and public company forecasts can be useful guides to Wall St. Corporations can actually look out a three to six months and forecast how their business should do with some degree of accuracy. But, as securities analysts have shown time and time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Earnings Don't Matter in the Current Economy | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

Perhaps President Barack Obama shouldn't close down the Guantánamo Bay detention camp quite so fast - it might be useful for all our new Ponzi princes.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beyond Madoff, Ponzi Schemes Proliferate | 1/23/2009 | See Source »

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