Hi Everyone,

After much deliberation, I am deciding to shut the site down. The stress is really getting to me in the wake of everything that's happened lately with my family, and I simply don't have the time to manage the site in a way that does justice to what it was originally intended. Moderating a community, and doing it fairly, is much harder and time consuming than I ever thought possible, and I apologize for letting you down.

I would love to just turn the site over to you all, but the level of moderation and action required on my part is more than I can handle right now. Another reason is that I simply cannot monitor what is orignal and what is copied directly from other sites.

In particular, Daily Job Cuts has been doing some great work and has really risen to the occasion in keeping track of the job cuts, and a whole lot more. Many users here were grabbing the links and copy directly from his site in their attempt to keep things going while I was gone - I apologize to the webmaster for that. It shouldn't have happened.

At any rate, I've enjoyed reading your comments and I wish all of you the best of luck - if you're looking for a place to migrate the community, I suggest trying the comments at Calculated Risk or Mish's Global Economic Analysis, - maybe I'll see you there in the future when I get my house in order.

Best Wishes,
Cranky

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