It always boils my blood when middle class familes invest their lifesavings only to be taken advantage by large companies. “I’m sorry for everyone, but we’re in the same boat,” says Ivanka Trump.

Oh really? And which yacht would that be honey?
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Your 2009 may be off to a rough start, but I guarantee you it isn’t as bad as Marcus Schrenker’s. Recently his wife filed for divorce, he lost a half-million-dollar judgment, his house was searched for possible security violations, and we know know that he also had another $1.4 million approaching lawsuit.

So when the finance expert/licensed pilot reported that he was having plane trouble and was headed for a crash, the authorities were quick to suspect.

From their TV, to their animals, to their people, it appears that Japan is indeed entirely unique from America. Take this Japanese Airline CEO, for example; when he found out his company was struggling, he decided to cut his own pay.

CEOs of US Airlines may be making $200,000,000 annually, but this Japanese one is making less than $90,000!

Today is Black Friday, at least in America. The day after Thanksgiving when retailers expect you to do your duty and spend oodles of your hard-earned cash on items you don’t actually need.

This video shows a Best Buy store opening its doors at 5am on the morning of Black Friday 2006. As you can see, there aren’t exactly a lack of people waiting to grab a bargain.

The Credit Crunch has hit, and leading economists paint a grim picture for the future with some even going as far to say it will be as bad as the 10 year Great Depression of the 1930s.

Unemployment has already risen quickly in the past few weeks in both the U.S and much of Europe and people are increasingly fighting for scarce jobs.

After losing their jobs, many people are choosing to work from home as freelancers through websites like oDesk, a California based company that connects employers and freelancers in the virtual world.

If it’s not already bad enough having Gordon Brown in charge of the country, we’ve now had to listen to him blithely announce he’s giving away £500 billion of taxpayers money to the banks.

I thought the US bailout was sickening, but now it’s happened in my own country, I’m even more incensed. Why the hell should you and I pay for private banks to stay in business?

It’s a good thing you only bet a penny, Mr. Laffer.

You’d better believe it now, Laffer. Welcome to the technology age when anything you say or do can come back to bite your behind.

There is currently a huge financial crisis hitting every country in the world, and it’s been coming for a couple of years, with many people warning it was on its way.

The US financial market and government seemed to bury their heads in the sand until it was almost too late and are only now trying to rescue the economy.

Multimillionaire investor Jim Rogers was recently interviewed on Bloomberg. Last year must have been a nice one since he sold his $15 mansion and moved to Singapore, but mind you, he still doesn’t have very many nice things to say about the dollar.

“Moving to the UK in 1807 would have been brilliant, moving to America in 1907 would have been brilliant, we’ll see if moving to Asia in 2007 was brilliant.”

Over eight trillion dollars of debt. That’s over $27,000 of debt for each American.