Economic Crisis in Pictures

I’ve been trying to come up with some way to post about this economic crisis and how it is being covered in terms of pictures. Still don’t have much to say, in the meantime go spend some time at BAGnewsNotes where Michael Shaw is providing some great commentary (here is an example from the ‘Bailout Meeting’ at the White House)

So, in the mean time, here is an amusing find from the good people at the Passport Blog at Foreign Policy Magazine: “Will somebody please leave this poor woman alone?”

THOMAS LOHNES/AFP/Getty Images

THOMAS LOHNES/AFP/Getty Images

Photographers keep coming back to this blonde German trader named Simone Wallmeyer and putting her on the newswire, tied to the crisis.. poor gal


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