• 02 Sep 2011 at 3:20 PM

Write-Offs: 09.02.11

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$$$ Economists React: ‘Disturbing’ Way to Start Labor Day Weekend (WSJ)

$$$ Obama scraps smog rules opposed by business (AP)

$$$ Goldman’s report on the world ending (ZH)

$$$ IMF Said to oppose push for Greek collateral (Bloomberg)

$$$ How To Turn In Your Neighbors To The IRS (WSJ)

$$$ T.I. back in federal custody after using luxury bus to report to halfway house (NYDN)

$$$ That’s it for us today. Have a great weekend and we’ll see you Tuesday!

$$$ BNP Paribas Post-It War (Guardian)

$$$ “We did everything we were supposed to,” said Stephanie Morales, 23, who graduated from Dartmouth College in 2009 with hopes of working in the arts. Instead she ended up waiting tables at a Chart House restaurant in Weehawken, N.J., earning $2.17 an hour plus tips, to pay off her student loans. “What was the point of working so hard for 22 years if there was nothing out there?” said Ms. Morales, who is now a paralegal and plans on attending law school. Some of Ms. Morales’s classmates have found themselves on welfare. “You don’t expect someone who just spent four years in Ivy League schools to be on food stamps,” said Ms. Morales, who estimates that a half-dozen of her friends are on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. A few are even helping younger graduates figure out how to apply. “We are passing on these traditions on how to work in the adult world as working poor,” Ms. Morales said. (NYT)

$$$ 3,000 Pairs Of Panties Found Along Ohio Highway (KSPR)

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    Comments (17)

    1. 1
      Posted by Lazy Fare | September 2, 2011 at 3:38 PM

      Was that wrong? Should I have not done that?

      - Jeffrey G.

    2. 2
      Posted by LTilt | September 2, 2011 at 3:56 PM

      C. U. N.ext T.uesday!

    3. 3
      Posted by Guest | September 2, 2011 at 4:00 PM

      Have a weekend good thanks on this tuesday ….until

    4. 4
      Posted by Bandersnatch | September 2, 2011 at 4:34 PM

      Stephanie Morales, 23, said “What was the point of working so hard for 22 years?” Maybe if she didn't slack off before she turned one she would be doing better. After all, it's hard to catch up after you fall behind.

    5. 5
      Posted by pazzo83 | September 2, 2011 at 4:51 PM

      FINALLY, someone on hear who knows how to write good.

      - UBS Grammer Quant, 1997 Monmouth County Spelling Bee Champion

    6. 6
      Posted by early_hominid | September 2, 2011 at 5:04 PM

      And what better way to kick off Labor Day weekend than this:
      http://mycrains.crainsnewyork.com/blogs/in-the-ma…

    7. 7
      Posted by Lazy Fare | September 2, 2011 at 5:30 PM

      People "on Wall Street" are happier than others because they read Beth Levin.

    8. 8
      Posted by early_hominid | September 2, 2011 at 5:30 PM

      Forgot to add "fuck you Karl Marx."

    9. 9
      Posted by the | September 2, 2011 at 5:40 PM

      Steph,
      See the headline below your story? Panties…If you want to lose the loans start ho'ing. Otherwise, find a fake ID, assume a new SS# and move off the grid. You owe them nothing, it is your choice to pay, but there's only one way to earn that money. Either way you benefit from fucking the man.

    10. 10
      Posted by rahodeb | September 2, 2011 at 5:47 PM

      Beth Levin?

      Bess, any relation?

    11. 11
      Posted by investorcluzo | September 2, 2011 at 6:02 PM

      happy birthday bess!

    12. 12
      Posted by Grundlach | September 2, 2011 at 8:15 PM

      I love birthday sex!

    13. 13
      Posted by Bandersnatch | September 2, 2011 at 8:42 PM

      Ditto

    14. 14
      Posted by Alpha_Bets | September 4, 2011 at 9:25 PM

      Stephanie clearly hasn't heard of the recent phenomenon of turning to a sugar daddy for help paying off student loans. I'm just saying there are options. It seems to me she chooses not to pay her debts…

    15. 15
      Posted by Guest | September 5, 2011 at 7:00 AM

      Wait Darmouth is an Ivy? Even I, cannot make this crap up. Wait until I tell this to my people…

      - Kim Jong Il

    16. 16
      Posted by Lazy Fare | September 6, 2011 at 12:01 AM

      You must be new here…

      - Biff Basness

    17. 17
      Posted by FinneganKristiansen | September 6, 2011 at 6:24 AM

      I'm thinking panties on the highway is a positive economic indicator.

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