[p2p-research] Odd economic indicators

[Ryan]

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Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 9/21/09
Jason Kottke has assembled a nice little list of odd economic
indicators, from the number of classified romance ads placed by married
people looking for affairs to the number of filming permits filed for
the LA 2nd Street Tunnel to the reinstatement of a blouse-and-underwear
allowance at a swank lawfirm in London: Inevitably dubbed the "90
nicker knicker allowance", this may or may not be the most reliable
indicator yet that the credit crunch is over. (Business is apparently
so hectic that the firm has also installed sleeping pods.) The baked
bean index and other economic indicators


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