Author Archives: Dan Schlegel

Recession iPhone Case

If you decided to spring for an iPhone just before the recession kicked in and find yourself now unable to buy a case for it, well Mashable has found the case just for you! The $1 iPhone case! Made from biodegradable earth-friendly materials, could you really find a better deal?
iPhone Recession Case

Tales from the Recession: Student Housing – Update!

Recently, our friend “Jim,” previously talked about in our last installment of “Tales from the Recession,” has been unmasked as it were. He is now known to the world as Brian Borncamp, as he has been revealed as the owner of a cabin in the woods on the State University of New York at Buffalo [...]

Tales from the Recession: Student Housing

The following is a true story – we’ve changed the names to protect those involved and obscured the location so nothing bad happens to those we speak of here. I hope you enjoy the first installment of Tales from the Recession.
The person I interviewed for this piece, we’ll call him Jim, is a college student [...]

Press Releases Laden with Recession Speak

Earlier today I was reading through the technology news as I always do and saw an interesting device coming out soon – an internet streaming audio/video set-top box. I decided that it would be a good idea to dig in and read the press release about this device. In the second paragraph I found this:
“In [...]

Trend: Staycations

These tough economic times sure are interesting. Sometimes our patterns are counter-intuitive in these situations, such as a recent article from Live Science stating that women are more likely to go on shopping sprees in a recession than otherwise, but others are painfully predictable. In this case it is the vacationing market that has been [...]

Welcome!

Welcome to The Recession Blog! Here we intend to bring to you the trends and the shifts in thought and action that seem to prevail during this tough economic time. Enjoy as well our column which is coming soon – “Tales from the Recession.” This site is designed to use little bandwidth and to be [...]