Economic crisis facing United States

When I was working at the old St. Louis Globe-Democrat in the mid 1980s, our employer was one of those wing-and-a-prayer entrepreneurs who didn’t have much money.

Time and again, paydays passed without any checks, and there were other times when the checks would come, they would be suspiciously rubbery.

My colleagues and I used to joke that our chances of surviving were like “fish (waste) on the bottom of the ocean,” because there was nothing lower. We were right. The guy went out of business owing each of us thousands of dollars.

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