Submitted By: whiteshark
| about 1 year ago
Sorrento Pointe, Calif., does not look like the setting for the death of the American Dream. From outside the tasteful guardhouse stationed at the entrance of this gated community about 23 miles from downtown Los Angeles, all seems peaceful. The ...
Submitted By: whiteshark
| about 1 year ago
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Mental health counselors were on the alert Tuesday for calls from people depressed or possibly suicidal about money woes, after an unemployed financial manager killed five family members and himself.
The widely publicized ...
Submitted By: whiteshark
| about 1 year ago
As the number of foreclosures grow and the value of stock portfolios plummet, news reports from the US of the financial fallout are growing increasingly dire. A 90-year-old woman in Ohio shot herself while being served an eviction notice. ...
Submitted By: whiteshark
| about 1 year ago
A lot of people are influenced adversely by the economic situation; very, very few are going to take their own lives," said Dr. Yeates Conwell, professor of psychology and co-director of the Center for the Study and Prevention of Suicide at the ...
News Source: The Age
| about 1 year ago
How do journalists and editors weigh the need to report accurately with the responsibility not to create even more panic? Modern economies, unlike barter societies, are built on trust in a series of abstractions. A $50 bill is just a piece of paper;...
News Source: Daily News & Analysis
| about 1 year ago
Stock broker Jivraj Mehta (name changed) has not had a restful nights sleep since the day he received the dreaded news about Lehman brothers. Its not just Mehta, anxiety has affected the entire Mehta household. Whether it is a seemingly well-to-...