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Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:00 AM

Main Street's body count rises

As suicides and murders emerge in the wake of the financial crisis, the fallout is increasingly measured not only in dollars but in blood.
By Nick Turse

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  • Tuesday, October 21, 2008 06:58 PM

    Not buying it

    In 2001 with the day trader implosion, people typically killed themselves or sometimes their broker. Not their whole families. There is something else at play here. People don't wake up one day and morph into family exterminators. Not over money.

    —The Beagle of Doom Read The Beagle of Doom's other letters

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