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During the final months of 2008, as the financial markets imploded, talk on trading desks turned to food and water stockpiles.

They’re still flowing on Wall Street. But they won’t buy bubbly.

City charities are getting a lump of coal in their stockings right when they’re needed most.

A numeric summary of our troubled times.

Since August, 33,000 New Yorkers have lost their jobs. Here are seven recent casualties.

Once upon a time, back in 2003, the economy was booming, the forecast was sunny, and Andi Marie Jones was a 28-year-old event planner dealing with �bridezillas� in Dallas.

In the bleakest stock market of the past 70 years, when hedge funds and 401(k)s alike have cratered, few people are smiling. But short-seller Jim Chanos, whose fund is up 50 percent, is having the time of his life.

Is Lehman CEO Dick Fuld the true villain in the collapse of Wall Street, or is he being sacrificed for the sins of his peers?

Where to put your money�or some of it, anyway�in 2009.

For junior capitalists fleeing the financial meltdown, is the highly leveraged, hotly speculative Middle Eastern insta-metropolis the last, best place on Earth�or a mirage?