Economic Crisis

Golden Gate Skateparks and Venezuelan Wage-Fixing — It's SFGovernmentInAction!!!

The Guardian Gets a Reality Check from The New York Times

Breaking Up: Now Even More Awkward And Painful!

Drown Your Sorrows At Cafe Rouge's Recession Tuesdays

Press Democrat Gives Misleading Solace to Area Bank Depositers

Magic Theatre on Verge of Shutting Down

Theater critic Chloe Veltman wrote this week that the recession is taking its toll on the performing arts. As the Weekly was about to go to press, more bad news emerged: San Francisco's famed Magic Theatre may have to cancel its 2009 season if it can't raise $350,000 by Jan. 9. A statement pos ... More >>

Preventive Medicine: How S.F. Politicos Saved The World

Now that Wall Street investments have collapsed in value, it's fair to credit Nancy Pelosi's lead in the 2005 battle against Social Security privatization for saving us all from spending old age in abject poverty."In this downturn in the financial -- the stock market, thank God we won that fight," ... More >>

Bay Area Profs Speak Out Against Stimulus

Did stimulus really help them?Washington's elected officials and punditocracy have of late been consumed in hashing out the shape of an economic stimulus package. While no love has been lost between Republicans and Democrats in the pit fight over the bill's final shape, both sides say they recognize ... More >>

Flubbers

How Federal Home Loan Banks and their execs exacerbated the banking meltdown.

Bonfire of the Profanities

An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

Dogs also losing their homes in foreclosure

An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

The recession is hurting A.C.T. and others

An investigator who exposed dishonest savings and loan regulators in the '80s re-encounters an old rival in the latest banking crisis.

It's the economy, a$$hole

A swanky hotel chain's four-letter ad campaign.

The American Dream's $700 billion price tag

A swanky hotel chain's four-letter ad campaign.

West Coast Dockworkers Dispute Could Paralyze U.S. Economy

A swanky hotel chain's four-letter ad campaign.

Reading the Fed

How long a recession, if the Federal Reserve adopts "Positively Outrageous Service" as an official slogan?

Telling Fortunes

A San Francisco firm rolls the dice in the multibillion-dollar game of global finance

Sorry, S.F.: Gavin Newsom's just not that into you

(with apologies to the authors of He's Just Not That Into You)

Department of D'oh: iShares Shareholders File Suit Following Company's Decision To Invest 11 Percent of Assets in Lehman Bros. -- On Day Before Lehman's Collapse

What happens to the document you spend hours perfecting -- until your computer crashes and burns? Sure, the data is lost -- but, existentially, where does it go? Is there a special corner of the universe chock full o' unsaved term papers and other e-casualties? If so, perhaps that's where peeved sha ... More >>

Porn and Perverts: Are Stimulus Funds Showered on 'Stimulating' Art?

​That paragon of quality news reporting, Fox, ran a story on its Web site today about two local arts organizations that  received federal stimulus funding for "...Saturday night 'pervert' revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco." The two organizations ... More >>

Quiz: Figure out how far you've fallen in the Great Recession

​That paragon of quality news reporting, Fox, ran a story on its Web site today about two local arts organizations that  received federal stimulus funding for "...Saturday night 'pervert' revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco." The two organizations ... More >>

Obama's stimulus money will increase traffic, but not bridge safety

​That paragon of quality news reporting, Fox, ran a story on its Web site today about two local arts organizations that  received federal stimulus funding for "...Saturday night 'pervert' revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco." The two organizations ... More >>

Michael Moore sells the same old schtick in Capitalism: A Love Story

​That paragon of quality news reporting, Fox, ran a story on its Web site today about two local arts organizations that  received federal stimulus funding for "...Saturday night 'pervert' revues and the airing of pornographic horror films at art houses in San Francisco." The two organizations ... More >>

No Justice

Despite Obama's promises of change, corporate crooks are still going unpunished for their roles in the financial collapse.

Scooping Animal Poop Proves To Be A Moneymaker

photo via Pet ButlerPotty job​Even in a dismal economy there are two things unemployed people are still willing to shell out for: a double latte and their pets.Specifically, their pets pooh. It seems that the poop-scooping business is proving to be recession proof. So Matt "Red" Boswell, Chief (Ex ... More >>

Seaweed Portraits of the 1930s

photo via Pet ButlerPotty job​Even in a dismal economy there are two things unemployed people are still willing to shell out for: a double latte and their pets.Specifically, their pets pooh. It seems that the poop-scooping business is proving to be recession proof. So Matt "Red" Boswell, Chief (Ex ... More >>

Report: In 2009, S.F. Housing Production Highest in 45 Years

Sorry kids! Busy here...​But good luck affording one...A new Housing Inventory report put out by San Francisco's Planning Department says the last time builders created more apartments than they did in 2009 was 1964.But citywide opposition to new housing construction -- as evidenced by last night' ... More >>

List: Zoned for porn use

Sorry kids! Busy here...​But good luck affording one...A new Housing Inventory report put out by San Francisco's Planning Department says the last time builders created more apartments than they did in 2009 was 1964.But citywide opposition to new housing construction -- as evidenced by last night' ... More >>

Permanent Government

Sorry kids! Busy here...​But good luck affording one...A new Housing Inventory report put out by San Francisco's Planning Department says the last time builders created more apartments than they did in 2009 was 1964.But citywide opposition to new housing construction -- as evidenced by last night' ... More >>

"Inside Job": Charles Ferguson's meltdown doc will make you seethe

Sorry kids! Busy here...​But good luck affording one...A new Housing Inventory report put out by San Francisco's Planning Department says the last time builders created more apartments than they did in 2009 was 1964.But citywide opposition to new housing construction -- as evidenced by last night' ... More >>

Do You Feel Drained?

Sorry kids! Busy here...​But good luck affording one...A new Housing Inventory report put out by San Francisco's Planning Department says the last time builders created more apartments than they did in 2009 was 1964.But citywide opposition to new housing construction -- as evidenced by last night' ... More >>

The Year in Food 2010: Big-Ticket Dining Surges

Lara Hata/SF WeeklyProspect: High-end dining in San Francisco is not in danger.​Twelve months, ten storylines: It's SFoodie's annual look back at the year in food.Back in January, people were talking about the San Francisco restaurant scene as if it were flagging fast. The fretting was fueled by t ... More >>

The Mad Quest of Mr. Wu

How a wannabe banking magnate from S.F. built an empire on deception.

Fresh Eats

Our weekly roundup of SFoodie news

S.F. Fraudsters Fueled 2008 Financial Collapse

If only feds had listened back in 2006.​America's financial crisis had roots in fraudulent schemes to rope immigrants and other disadvantaged borrowers into loans they could never repay. And federal regulators knew of this problem as early as 2006, when abusive lending practices were the subject o ... More >>

An Unnerving Look Back at the Meltdown

If only feds had listened back in 2006.​America's financial crisis had roots in fraudulent schemes to rope immigrants and other disadvantaged borrowers into loans they could never repay. And federal regulators knew of this problem as early as 2006, when abusive lending practices were the subject o ... More >>

An Unnerving Look Back at the Meltdown

If only feds had listened back in 2006.​America's financial crisis had roots in fraudulent schemes to rope immigrants and other disadvantaged borrowers into loans they could never repay. And federal regulators knew of this problem as early as 2006, when abusive lending practices were the subject o ... More >>

That's Absurd

If only feds had listened back in 2006.​America's financial crisis had roots in fraudulent schemes to rope immigrants and other disadvantaged borrowers into loans they could never repay. And federal regulators knew of this problem as early as 2006, when abusive lending practices were the subject o ... More >>