The Skillet
This photo -- taken at a tent city in Sacramento -- has a real Depression-era feeling to it.
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Your Turn: Stimulus-Created Police
In a thoroughly vivid reference, TIME referred to these personnel as "stimulus-created police."
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Geithner OMG
Given his role as the combined Mr. Fixit and Communicator-in-Chief of the economic meltdown, Tim Geither doesn't come off assertive, personable or even relatable. This photo by Ben Lowy, taken as the Administration was settling in, leads off a slide show at Fortune titled "Inside Obama's economic war room."
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Outside The Box
For me, what's poignant about the stripped Circuit City is how it emblemizes how FUBAR the country is now as a result of rampant consumption.
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Bring On The Handcuffs
If Ms. Pendergest-Holt was an obvious target -- as Chief Investment Officer for Alan Stanford, the financier who managed an $8 billion Ponzi scheme -- its a small satisfaction to see someone, anyone, involved with financial smoke and mirrors actually do a perp walk these days. Congress members...
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The Joker’s On Us?
Far from making Madoff into a monster, New York Magazine's Joker take-off turns him into a clown. With the economy in meltdown and Wall Street still running amok, it's just on more act of media denial we don't need.
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Sign Of The Times
Line of job seekers snakes around the Whitcomb Hotel as they wait to enter the California Job Journal HIREvent Feb. 10, in San Francisco, Calif.
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Your Turn: Recession Memorial
I'm interested in your reactions to this image. It shows the photos of laid off workers posted outside a German microchip plant.
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The Mortgage Meltdown: We Missed It Completely… Because We Knew It All Along!
In contrast to all those scratching their heads right now over how they could have predicted this banking meltdown, it was common wisdom two years ago -- as this Economist cover and BNN write-up reveals -- that this market was going to crash.
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Back In The Day
The most distinctive thing about this financial meltdown image might be the fact it's already four-and-a-half months old.
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More Unraveling
This post is a follow-up to one featured yesterday, offering the powerful images of photojournalist John Moore, powerful evidence of this cruel recession, and one family's unwarranted eviction.
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The Great Unraveling
Mary Ann Smith collects some belongings after an eviction team removed the furniture from her foreclosed house. This is a scene of personal desolation.
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Picturing A Miracle (And/Or, Surviving The Crash Of Dubya Air Flight 43)
Just days before Obama's inauguration, it's hard not to equate the landing and rescue of US Air Flight 1549 on the Hudson River to the state of American politics.
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Talking Turkey
You're probably going to get more irreverence out of me for the next few days. As a perfect example, I got a minor kick out of this cynical twist on the Brady Bunch.
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Paulson: Just Write It Down!
On view here is a wonderful visual metaphor of Hank Paulson, the Treasury Secretary as dictator.
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Some Perspective
This image above, leading Wednesday's NYT "Pictures of the Day" slide show offers two emotionally-stricken stock brokers in Frankfurt.
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Bringing Up The Rear
Last night's presidential debate makes me even more convinced of how significant picture this is. It was taken on ...... and shows Treasury Secretary Paulson meeting with the press after .......
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