Longtime CEO Christie Hefner leaves, Playboy magazine tanks. Interim CEO says sale is an open question, but what is there to sell? Playboy’s brand declines annually: 27% less ad revenue, iconic founder is decrepit walking STD, rise of market-sensitive free internet porn leaves you with a mediocre reality show, a dirty pool, and Fred Durst.

Following the blackened tread marks of Chrysler, these loans barely begin the recovery process for GM (if at all – Saturn and Hummer are gone anyway). In plans delivered to Treasury, both companies argue that taxpayer-funded restructurings are still better than bankruptcy, as in that case GM may require as much as $100Bn in financing.

Just seeing the title, most readers will assume “Detroit’s got to be at the top of that list.” You’d be wrong – though Detroit is still up there, having lost half its population, down to 900k people. Simply put: you have no idea how stark the effects of the housing crisis have been.