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Top 10 Unconventional Recession Indicators

by Tim Berry on August 11, 2009

in Economics

I found this on the Huffington Post over the weekend: Top Ten Unconventional Indicators Of The Recession. It’s a slide show, more fun there than here, but in case you’re interested:

Home movie rentals: up during recession. Netflix, Redbox and others are way up over last year. From The Atlantic.
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Urban farming: More people grow their own [...]

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Investigative Journalism Under Siege

by Tim Berry on July 7, 2009

in Entrepreneurship, Journalism

Do you want to make meaning? Solve a problem? Disrupt the status quo? Then solve this problem: figure out a way to monetize investigative journalism. In the new media world.
No, not just journalism, thanks, but investigative journalism. By that I mean the product of professional journalists paid to dig for (relatively) objective truth, like facts. [...]

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