Brooklyn’s Fanciest Rummage Sale

Talk about bang for your buck. This Saturday, July 17, you can hear live professional music and hunt for bargains for free. The One World Symphony will hold its Super Summer Rummage Sale in Brooklyn Heights—complete with live jazz, cabaret and classical music, led by Artistic Director and Conductor Sung Jin Hong. The wares include two-piece suits, tuxes, dresses, gowns, scores and CDs…

Recession Briefing 5.22

What you need to know today to survive and thrive in the recession.

While consumers are cutting back on a lot of things because of the recession, they’re still plunking down big bucks for designer jeans. (LA Times)

“Sexual enhancement devices” and his-and-hers lubricants are flying off the shelves in supermarkets and drug-stores during the recession. (Advertising Age)

Malls, those ubiquitous shopping meccas that sprang up in the 1950s, are turning into ghost towns in the recession, with many struggling properties reduced to largely vacant shells. (Wall Street Journal)

Screwed: Potential 4,000 in NYC

A daily review of the employment fallout around the country and the world.

Mayor Bloomberg’s new plan may result in nearly 4,000 layoffs for New York City workers… Swiss Bank UBS has eliminated 2,000 U.S. employees as part of the downsizing plan they’d announced last month… NASA plans to cut 900 manufacturing jobs over the next several months…Chrysler plants across the country are bracing for the ripple effect of the company’s bankruptcy: yesterday the plant in Rogersville, MI shut down temporarily, idling 200 workers…