Advice from all over

When it comes to the economy, everyone’s got an opinion on how to fix it, how to survive it, and how it all happened.

There are the experts, like Nobel-winning economist Paul Krugman, who told Nightly Business Report’s Susie Gahrib that extending jobless benefits won’t solve the economic crisis but will help get things moving. “If it was up to me, I’d have a new WPA,” Krugman says in this video.

Then there are a few young, budding experts, who give Marketplace’s Scott Jagow some irreverent investment advice. Should you buy stock in turntables, now that the 80s are back in style?

And there’s the Craigslist-posting public, who have come up with a zillion ways to save and cope. As PRX’s EconomyBeat.org reports, there are people offering to do everything from wear silly costumes for a fee, to auction off misbehaving politicians, to salvage roadkill deer for dinner. When the going gets tough, the tough start posting to Craigslist.

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