March 13, 2009 @ 10:03 pm
There’s been lots of news lately about the rapidly declining quality of life in Detroit, a once-booming industrial city that is now almost completely abandoned. I’ve already posted about an incident of a dead body left unattended for about a month in the middle of Detroit’s downtown area and a video that shows the quietness of Detroit, but this series of images by Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre at Time magazine really show how terrible the city has decayed.
This is a bad thing for any city to experience, but a part of me really wants to visit Detroit to explore this place and all of its ruins.
October 10, 2008 @ 10:08 am
My friend Jon has this link in his status about Circuit-Breaker levels for the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Basically, if the Dow Jones Industrial average falls beyond a certain point-level, all trading can be halted so that traders can get a better grasp of the information that is coming in and out and thus make a better informed decision about their stocks.
I’m sure people who follow the stock exchange know this already, but I didn’t, and now I do, and now I feel more complete.
Oh, did you hear? The Dow Jones and S&P Index fell about 8 percent this morning. We are living in great times.
