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On the date

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

From the day

Perspective: The Anxious Local · Sight

The neon glow of the grocery aisle flickers over those ridiculous robotic hamsters everyone is fighting for, but I’m staring at the shelf tags in disbelief. **$1.37** for a basic loaf of bread—if prices keep climbing like this, I’m going to have to start living off the free Wi-Fi at the café. Look, Imma let you finish complaining about the news, but the local nurses losing their union bid means tonight’s hospital shift is going to be a nightmare of thin scrubs and shorter tempers. I’m just trying to keep my head down while "Boom Boom Pow" blasts from a passing car, drowning out the fear that everything is getting too expensive to survive.

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#1 on the Billboard Hot 100

Boom Boom Pow"

The Black Eyed Peas

The must-have

Zhu Zhu Pets

Slang

Slang of the decade

General

sketchypeepsnewbie

Text Speak

brblolomgrofltmi

Emo

rawrsqueescene

Reality Tv

you're firedthe tribe has spoken

Catchphrases of 2009

  • Imma let you finish
  • There's an app for that

Tech Check

Bitcoin, WhatsApp, Uber & Windows 7.

Cost of Living (2008)

Loaf of Bread

$1.37

Gallon of Gas

$3.27

Average Home

$229,600

New Car

$25,200

Meanwhile

  • The Great RecessionHousing market crash; Lehman Brothers collapse (2008-09-15).

Time Elapsed

6,254 days ago

(17 years, 49 days)