Source	Fark Headline		Comments
		China isn't feeling the recession as hard as the rest of the world. It's because they're having a "superbubble," and when it bursts it's gonna splatter sticky fiscal goo all over everybody  (csmonitor.com)	(84)

World recession getting you down? Then cheer news of 10,000 bottles of champagne being spit out at a London tasting, compared by one participant to "Clint Eastwood's tobacco-chewing desperado in 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'."  (timesonline.co.uk)

(12)

Old & busted: Life coach. New hotness: Recess coach. Stay between the lines  (nytimes.com)

(70)

(AWPortals)

Active Worlds offers refugees of There.com 6-months free after the environment closed due to the recession. Next up: Reposessing mounts in World of Warcraft  (awportals.com)

(38)

"America's billionaires have not rebounded from the recession as strongly as other countries' billionaires." Won't somebody think of the American billionaires? Somebody???  (cnn.com)

(162)

Government pension funds whose risky investments lost billions in the recession are trying to catch up with even riskier investments, such as buying stock in Confederated Slaveholders Inc  (nytimes.com)

(15)

(Some Guy)

California's solution to encourage business growth during a recession: Impose strict environmental regulations, driving business out of the state  (sbsun.com)

(54)

(Some Guy)		In today's recession, pet washing machines are all the rage in Japan.....Yes Japan (w/video of sad cat getting fluffed)  (blogs.app.com)	(126)
		Illusion is Reality; Poverty is Prosperity  (dailymail.co.uk)	(19)
		Despite its long-held belief that it is inappropriate to blame free-market economic policy for our current recession, the Wall Street Journal feels pretty comfortable declaring that Milton Friedman saved Chile on Saturday  (online.wsj.com)	(50)

(Some Guy)

Before the Recession: Credit Counselor, "How may I help you?"; During the Recession: Credit Counselor, "Please listen carefully as our menu options have changed"  (journaltimes.com)

(54)

(Some Car Guy)

Not news: Recession forces automaker to replace V8 engines with V6s. Fark: It's Ferrari  (autocar.co.uk)

(35)

		Rep. James Clyburn (D-umbass): 'We've got to spend our way out of this recession'  (thehill.com)	(203)
		As the recession takes its toll, more people stay home and drink cheaper booze  (cleveland.com)	(306)

(Some Guy)		Second largest swarm of earthquakes ever recorded at Yellowstone...and with December 2012 just around the corner too  (missoulian.com)	(97)
		Seeing as it took two years to recover all the jobs lost in the 2001 recession, the recovery from this recession isn't looking too speedy  (news.yahoo.com)	(88)

The recession has seen the street price of oral sex plummet from $60 last fall to $20 today..."we are in the most serious depression since the 1930s. This shows the magnitude of the decline. It is deep and it is problematic."  (thestar.com)

(143)

(Some Fat Cat)

In the saddest story of the recession yet, the price on Ken Lay's luxury Houston apartment is down to $11.9M (w/ pics)  (swamplot.com)

(38)

Harley-Davidson posts first quarterly loss since 1993 amid reports that people weathering a recession don't have spare cash to waste on poorly-built overpriced crap  (businessweek.com)

(118)

Noted economist Shakira's solution to fix the global economy: consumption and spending  (3news.co.nz)

(61)

(Cubicles need love too)

Cubicles, the next victim of The Great Recession  (globalpost.com)

(94)

As if England didn't have enough crap to deal with right now, brewers warn that beer prices will rise 10p per pint  (dailymail.co.uk)

(16)

"Imagine the outrage if any Republican President went on vacation during a recession and spent $4,000 a night on accommodations." Hey, at least Dubya's 77 visits to Crawford were rent-free, right?  (newsbusters.org)

(167)

		Sex shop falls victim to hard times after flaccid interest and limp customer demand puts them out of business  (cbc.ca)	(82)
		Nobody can figure out why crime rates are falling despite the expectation that the recession would turn everybody into desperate thieves  (philly.com)	(238)

Bottled water industry shocked - shocked - that people in a down economy are less inclined to pay more per gallon for tapwater than gasoline  (msnbc.msn.com)

(77)

		Researchers have finally found something that's recession-proof: Bacon  (consumerist.com)	(36)
		Because of Tiger, golfers will turn away from the sport, appalled at the idea that money and hot women are just around the corner  (boston.com)	(95)

		GOP: Dems are playing politics by waiting to release TARP money until an election year. Dems: "We didn't create the recession, the Republicans did that" Nope, no politics here  (liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com)	(71)
		What do you get for piloting your country's economy into the largest recession in recent history? Time's Person of the Year  (msnbc.msn.com)	(76)

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus, and the recession's farked him over, too  (sfgate.com)

(30)

Pabst Blue Ribbon rides the recession and goofy hipsters to comeback success  (money.cnn.com)

(94)

Your tax dollars at work screwing you: The recession hasn't hurt government employees. First they got a raise, now the percentage of civil servants making more than $100,000 has jumped 5 percent in the past 18 months  (usatoday.com)

(167)

You may not have received a raise this year because of the recession, but the IRS employee who will be denying your claim that your cat is a dependent sure got one  (voices.washingtonpost.com)

(79)

You know there's a recession on when you can't even afford to die  (lep.co.uk)

(42)

(Central Pa. Business)

Harley-Davidson to keep its assembly plant in Pennsylvania, thanks to $15.4 million from state taxpayers, who are clearly rolling in dough and don't need that money during a recession  (centralpennbusiness.com)

(30)

Bankers increasingly looking for the tail-end of the recession  (tech.yahoo.com)

(13)

Coffee cuties, bikini baristas, java jigglers, brew betties? Whatever you call them, these recessioneers are banking the bucks, and putting the venti in your pants  (caller.com)

(52)

Economic downturn forces Japanese robot makers to concentrate on utilitarian machines that will take your job years ahead of schedule (pics)  (timesonline.co.uk)

(19)

		Sign number 34 the recession is over? Illinois zoo stands to make $16,500 on jewelry made from reindeer crap  (qctimes.com)	(41)
		Recession has caused many Americans to only buy things they can afford - and pay cash. Rather than praise this, the AP is calling these people "Scrooges"  (google.com)	(94)