NYT: Double Warning That a Recession May Be on the Way

The employment statistics and the bond market are combining to send out a warning that has been heard only rarely in the past two decades: A recession is coming in the United States.

The two charts show the double warning. Both charts warned of an economic downturn before the 1990 and 2001 recessions, and they are doing so again.

While each has arguably registered false warnings, they have never done so together.

If I'm reading this right, Pamela Anderson is bragging about being a $250K-a-night prostitute.

The john? Antonio Esfandiari.

Talk about romance! Just imagine if they procreate.

NORM: Pamela Anderson believes in magic

Pamela Anderson says she's all-in love with a professional poker player.

During an appearance Wednesday on "The Ellen DeGeneres Show," Anderson declined to identify her new mystery man, but there's scuttlebutt in the poker world that she's been seeing 29-year-old Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari.

"I paid off a poker debt with sexual favors, and I fell in love," Anderson told DeGeneres. "It's so romantic. It's romance."

Pressed for details, Anderson said, "I'm not really engaged. I don't know what I am. We may never get that far. We're in love. This is nice."

Anderson, who is Hans Klok's assistant in "The Beauty of Magic" at Planet Hollywood Resort, claims she lost $250,000 in a poker game and was offered an "Indecent Proposal"-like out to clear the debt.

If she and Esfandiari are an item, they're keeping it way under the radar. There have been no public sightings of the two together, and prior to her VMAs red carpet walk with Klok, someone in her camp asked that they be introduced as "Pamela Anderson and her boyfriend Hans Klok."

Hours later, she attended an after-party at Blush (Wynn) with Rick Solomon, Paris Hilton's co-star in a very famous video. Even later, she and ex-hubbie Tommy Lee were seen together at LAX and Noir Bar at the Luxor near dawn Monday.

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