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Kentucky Fried Sheep?

March 25, 2009 – 11:41 am

It could happen: Yum Brands (international purveyor of tacos, chicken, and incontinence) is buying $63 million worth of shares in something called Little Sheep Group Limited, which operates an Asian restaurant chain that’s based in Mongolia and serves food from “Indiana Jones & The Temple of Doom.”
The following is from Business First; kind of makes [...]

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Yet Another Recession Meme: Coupons or Death

March 18, 2009 – 5:26 pm

Sorry, no assless leather chaps-of-the-apocalypse or Sara Lee’s Soylent Green just yet — however, might we interest you in the best coupons this side of Armageddon? [If so, please leave your credit card/social security/blood type information in the comments section below and we'll get back with you...]
That’s right, fellow Recessionistas: WAVE-3’s ignoble “Coupon Club of [...]

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Students Beat Wall Street

March 16, 2009 – 11:56 am

It’s perhaps a telling sign when high school students manage to outmaneuver New York’s banking elite that the economy (despite its most recent “rally”) is totally destroyed — but that’s what happened. Three Central High School students took first place honors in the annual Kentucky Council on Economic Education’s Stock Market Game by earning more [...]

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The Next Bailout

March 11, 2009 – 5:17 pm

In addition to Bernard “150 Years” Madoff and John “Rugs” Thain, even fictional supervillains are no longer safe in this economy [via Funny or Die]:

“Lex Luthor Bailout” with Jon Hamm - watch more funny videos

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I Cannot Haz Cheeseburger?

March 9, 2009 – 3:29 pm

First Old Hickory Inn explodes in a fiery example of God’s wrath towards reasonably priced alcoholic beverages, and now Kaelin’s Restaurant shutters its doors, too? What, is God some kind of socialist vegetarian or something?
The C-J is reporting that the alleged birthplace of the modern cheeseburger, which has been open since the Great Depression instilled [...]

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Bernanke Unplugged

February 24, 2009 – 11:37 am

While you’re waiting for President Obama’s primetime address tonight, Fed. Chief Ben Bernanke is currently getting the ol’ bicameral treatment right now.
Via HuffPost (Courtesy of MSNBC) : Streaming video!
Highlights thus far:
1. The Bearded One declared we will see the end of the recession by 2009, and that 2010 “will be a year of recovery.”
2. When [...]

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McConnell wants lower home loan rates

February 5, 2009 – 8:51 am

Senate Republicans, led by Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, are pushing a plan to drop the interest rate on some home loans to 4 percent, which could help thousands of Kentuckians save money. 
By lowering the rate on 30-year fixed-rate home loans, the government would encourage homeowners to refinance at a potentially substantial monthly savings — as many [...]

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