Ten indications the Financial Crisis is not over yet (3)

If you open a bank account you get a free laptop

If you get a private loan you get a free laptop

If you get a credit card you get a free laptop

All the major retailers carry special offers for laptops

You get the drift...

Ten indications the Financial Crisis is not over yet (2)

Wilders popularity is still growing.

That one was easy, sheez.

Out of Office

My parents-in-law (well, sort-of) sold their house recently but can not yet move into their new one. Even though they couldn't be forced out of their old house, they decided to move out anyway because they are nice people and the couple moving in are expecting a baby soon. So where did they move to? Well, you guessed it, our appartment. So that means we are temporarily living at my sister-in-law (well, sort-of).

We don't have an internet connection here but, judging by the reception, in one of the opposite appartments they do...

Ten indications the Financial Crisis is not over yet (1)

While riding the metro to the bus terminal the other day I noticed that a lot of the advertisement boards at the stations were showing the same generic poster of the company owning the boards. They can't find companies to hire the advertising space so they prefer to put up their own poster instead of showing a blank board.

You'd assume that they would lower their pricing if they can't find any clients, so does this mean that every company lowered their advertising budget to almost zero? Since then I've noticed more "this space is for rent" advertisements and am wondering: is the number of these kind of advertisements an indicator of the state of the Financial Crisis?

Let see if we come up with nine more indicators, don't be afraid to leave a comment.