Does the recession have you down? Far too many people are running around wringing their hands, worrying about whether the recession will end. The reality is that the recession does not apply to everybody. In Bismarck, North Dakota, for example, the unemployment rate is a meager 3.7%. Last year happened to be very good for energy and accurate culture, two of the state’s major exports. The Internet is the same way. Even if the recession has hit the town that you live in very hard, major commerce is still being conducted online every day. The key is to start a home-based business that leverages the Internet and that can produce a recession proof, highly lucrative income.

A new term has been coined to describe rich entrepreneurs and executives who strive to look like starving artists. The word is Poorgeoisie and according to the Wall Street Journal, the social class has been with us for years. What has changed is that many of them no longer have to pretend to be poor. On the other side of the spectrum are the new entrepreneurs who are launching home-based Internet marketing businesses and who are creating massive wealth in the process. These folks have no reason to pretend that they are poor and are in fact quite proud of their income and their accomplishments.

Today, many people have been affected by the failing economy in some way or another. Some of these effects include the fear of losing a job, one’s company going bankrupt, loss of employment, retail sales falling drastically and stocks going down.