Grand Rapids Auto: The Obama Bankruptcy Announcement
This is the third post of a BAGnewsOriginals series, Grand Rapids Auto, exploring the economic crisis through the life of a family-owned Chrysler dealership. The image above captures customers and staff of the dealership watching President Obama on TV announcing Chrysler's bankruptcy and restructuring, April 30, 2009.
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Grand Rapids Auto: The Owner
This is the second post of a BAGnewsOriginals series, Grand Rapids Auto, exploring the economic crisis through the life of this family-owned Chrysler dealership.
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An exclusive BAGnewsNotes slideshow: Obama schools the credit card industry.
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42 + 44 – 1/2 4850_
I think Beltway-types were anticipating the Obama - Clinton photo op. Seriously, the first thing that went through my head when I saw this was: "burying the hatchet."
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Pecking Order
Given the terrific magnitude of the recession and the Wall Street meltdown, as well as the seriousness of the torture scandal, and the wide range of legal/constitutional liberty and ethics problems before the country, I regret the seating arrangement at Obama's first cabinet meeting.
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Underneath The Tea
What this "crest fallen" anti-tax/anti-Obama/anti-Government/anti-bailout/anti-(fill in the blank) tea-bag Lady Liberty captures for me is that Americans truly are hurting, angry and depressed ... and thus ripe for such cheap exploitation.
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Let’s Hear It For "The Prop Stylist"
Does this FORTUNE cover -- with out of work white-collar types holding hobo-style "Hire Me" signs -- seem offensive to you?
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Grand Rapids Auto: An Introduction
Christina Clusiau is a New York based photographer who has been returning to her hometown in Northern Minnesota to photograph and interview members and employees of her family’s auto dealership, in light of the economic crisis which has forced the car companies to ask for bailouts from the federal...
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Show Me The Knuckles
Even if Humpty Dumpty is on his way to being pieced back together, the image seems to do a nice job of framing the fundamental Wall Street/Main Street disconnect.
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Walled Street Protest
Noting the relative lack of emotion, enthusiasm, anger, BNN contributer Nina Berman offers us this view of the Wall Street protest this weekend.
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Reflecting On The Meltdown
In this photo from yesterday's anti-capitalist demonstration in New York's financial district, Getty photographer Mario Tama captures America's split between anger and denial and haves and have nots.
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The Committee To Save The World. (Whoops!)
Because Paul Krugman's latest opinion piece references this ten-year-old TIME cover featuring Greenspan, Rubin and Summers, I thought it was worth taking a look at.
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There’s Rage And Then There’s Rage
Seems like quite a contrast in rage over the banking meltdown, I'd say, between the two side of the pond.
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Sexing Up The G-20
Looking at these "Girls of the G20 Summit protest" shots brings a few things to mind.
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And That’s GM Out Back
The sense that GM headquarters is potentially destined to end up like this old industrial building is quite disconcerting.
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Bankers On Parade
I'm thrilled how Obama corralled those bank CEOs on Friday for a selflessness workshop, then kicked them loose out on the driveway to face a hungry media.
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Pandit At The Gates
This is classic. It's an image of Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit leaving -- or, at least attempting to leave -- the White House this morning.
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Hard To Shed Visions Of Two Americas
ApartmentTherapy.com comments that storage and tool sheds seem to be mostly relegated to Fisher Price themed plastic housing or barnyard chic. (Not sure about "chic," but the Fresno storage sheds housing Fresno's tent city overflow do go the "barnyard" route.)
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