recession watch
If you're looking for a photograph to illustrate how our economy has changed over the past few months, take a look at this. No, that's not a parking lot in a town where everyone has the same taste. It's the Port of Long Beach, where "thousands of cars worth tens of millions of dollars are being warehoused," unwanted by the dealers who used to sell them. They're imports — Mercedes-Benz, Toyota, and Nissan orphans.
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complaints
A man upset with his cellphone provider's inability to get his new phone to work out vented his rage by driving his friend's
Mercedes S500 into the company's office doors.
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rumors
Here's a roundup of some relevant Comsumer-type urban legends from Snopes's Hottest Urban Legends Page:
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aig
• Economists are always fighting the last price war. [
NYT]
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Consumerist
