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Great Recession

Movies & TV Travel

The End of the Road​: Nomadland, My Mother, and the Frontier's Broken Promise

On vandwelling in the wake of the Great Recession.

Mitchell Johnson The Drift Apr 2021 20min Permalink

Business

Sugar Days

The sugar beet harvest in North Dakota draws a modern version of the American hobo.

Sierra Crane-Murdoch Virginia Quarterly Review Apr 2015 20min Permalink

Secondhand Stories in a Rusting Steel City

An independent pawn store stumbles along in an economically depressed Pennsylvania town.

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Robyn K. Coggins Wilson Quarterly Apr 2015 10min Permalink

Arts

Found Money

On cattle auctions, reality TV and coming of age during the Great Recession.

Alice Gregory Harper's May 2014 20min Permalink

Business

The Collapse

How a top law firm destroyed itself.

James B. Stewart New Yorker Oct 2013 45min Permalink

Business

In Gold We Trust

On switching to the gold standard and a trip to the Yukon to witness the modern gold rush.

Wells Tower GQ Jan 2012 15min Permalink

Sex

The Family Prostitute

The Great Recession’s impact on the legalized prostitution industry in Nevada: more hookers, fewer johns.

Michael Albo LA Weekly Sep 2010 20min Permalink