Evan comes through with way more than his fair share of Great Wahl content for me. Today is no different.
Let me set the stage of today:
First, I email him this post from Calculated Risk about the vacant condo problem that is plaguing South Florida because he currently rents a condo in a semi-vacant tower, and [...]

I’ve posted this chart periodically over the last year. But it always help to have a little refresher when new jobs reports come out:

Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction and information, while [...]

Less than two months before your 2009 taxes are due. Maybe some of The Great Wahl readers are on this list. If they are, they are my best friends…
I never knew the IRS released stats this specific on it’s tax collection from individuals. An interesting snapshot of the Big Dogs. Definitely a list for all [...]

What do you do when you’ve been trapped in your DC apartment for days on end because of the Snowpocalypse/Snowmageddon and can’t make it to your worthless Georgetown Law classes? You read 1,000,000 word articles from The Atlantic, apparently.
And that is exactly what Steve has done. He forwarded me this uplifting piece this morning. A [...]

I always find too many informative political and economic articles to share, so I’ll select a few and throw them all in to one post of important stuff you should read to get your week started:
1. Maybe we shouldn’t be blaming our leaders for not being able to lead:
A thought-provoking read from Slate.com: Down With [...]

We’re not there yet:
From supermarkets to department stores, sales fell 0.3 percent from November, a decline that economists attributed to a bleak jobs market and a reluctance by consumers to spend freely. Analysts, encouraged by signs that consumers were regaining confidence, had expected sales to rise 0.5 percent.
Consumer spending drives 70% of the US economy. [...]

A lot of my friends are either in law school or already attorneys. Naturally, I like none of them, because, well, they are lawyers. If you believe this Op Ed from the LA Times, we could all go with a few less attorneys in our lives. Unless, of course, you were a attorney headhunter in [...]

$146/month to be a live-in protester in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Beijing. I’ve been to Beijing. It’s a great, great city. This job is as appealing as they come these days:
Wanted: One live-in protester, $146 a month, no days off.
When the managers of a Beijing restaurant marked for demolition were too busy to fight it, [...]

Fox News, solving the unemployment crisis one crazy idea at a time:

That’s exactly what we want! Get the unemployment rate down by lowering minimum wage for workers, thus lowering the standard of living for more Americans — but hey, at least more people would have sh*tty jobs, right?

Lots of crazy political stories in the news today:
As the Senate gets into its second week of debate on health care, the protesters plan to turn the chamber’s offices and hallways into “government waiting rooms,” pretending to be sick patients waiting for treatment. As the day wears on, their “untreated illnesses” will get worse, and [...]