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• So long
  This is our last day here at EconomyBeat, where we focused on user-generated content related to the economic downturn and other aspects of the nation’s financial life. What is not ending, however, are the effects of The Great Recession — which we tried to capture by going directly to the source. The country may, as macroeconomic [...] […]
• Top-post countdown No. 1: Geography of a recession
  On our last day, here’s our top post of all time (or the last nine months, which amounts to the same thing). This post had legs like Betty Grable, probably because it so clearly illustrated just how badly the employment situation was deteriorating last year. 1. Geography of a recession (Nov 30, 2009) This is an [...] […]
• Friday photo gallery: Best of the best
  Our last day, our last photo gallery. Here are our favorites, culled from the entire lot… […]
• EconomyBeat Podcast #16: Remembering
  As we wrap up here at the EconomyBeat Podcast, I thought we could take a long view and look back the the last great depression, the one in the 20th century. Over the next five minutes or so, feel free to reflect and do a little comparing and contrasting for yourself.  Fewer than 1 in [...] […]

PBS The Newshour

• Political Checklist: Polls Hold More Bad Midterm News for Democrats
  In this week's edition of the Political Checklist, Judy Woodruff and Gwen Ifill spoke with political editor David Chalian about new polls that bring more bad news for Democrats ahead of the midterm elections, as well as President Obama's big economic initiatives rolling out this week and his rare news conference this Friday. […]
• At Gov 2.0 Summit, Democratizing Data Is the Watchword
  The Rundown is covering this week's Gov2.0 Summit in Washington, D.C., where a mix of technologists, activists and industry professionals have gathered to talk about methods to run governments in more open and useful manners.Gov2.0 is a catch-all term coined by publisher Tim O'Reilly. It includes everything from government transparency and open dat […]
• Weekly Poem: 'Watching the Towers Go Down'
  By Peter Balakian-- from "A-Train/Ziggurat/Elegy"Who is the other whofloats between what you seeand what is there:think of the other going silent,screen fuzz smoke,hours away on TV.Came as dumb smokeinto my house.The jade plant leaves,tongue of the cat,pan on the stove,the cardamom and clovemoved in their currents.Outside the sky was searing blueho […]
• Australia Cobbles Together New Government
  It took more than two weeks of horse trading to win the votes of independent members of parliament, but Australia now has a government with the narrowest of majorities. And that is an accurate reflection of the election last month that basically produced a tie.Labor Prime Minister Julia Gillard gets to keep her job, even though her party lost its majority in […]
• Tuesday's Art Notes
  Mark Coreth begins work on his sculpture of a female tiger on the South Bank in London. The skeleton will be transformed into a tigress during a 5-day project to highlight WWF's Year of the Tiger campaign. Photo by Ben Stansall/ AFP/ Getty Images*The Kennedy Center announced that this year's honorees will include Oprah Winfrey, musicians Merle Hagg […]
• Tuesday: Petraeus Warns Against Quran Burning; Obama to Call for Tax Breaks
  Indonesian demonstrators rally outside the U.S. embassy in Jakarta to protest a Florida church's plans to burn copies of the Quran on the ninth anniversary of 9/11. Photo by Aldo Utama/AFP/Getty Images.Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, said Tuesday that an American church's threat to burn copies of the Quran could […]

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