The funny, fast and informative Calculated Risk blog (read and commented upon by both Average Joes and economists, like Paul Krugman)

For news on failing banks, there's the Implode-o-Meter.

CNBC has a speedy market ticker--to keep track of late-breaking ups and downs (and further downs).

Thejuciest Wall-Street gossip can be had at Dealbreaker.

And, may you never need it, Bloomberg's debt-consolidation calculator.

(The Troll and his liberal arts degree would like to thank Newsweek.com photo editor and finance wizard Kathy Jones for this post)

I, for one, hope never to be chained to a bunkbed with a veciloraptor. Because it has been brought to my attention that if, by some fluke, I were chained to a bunkbed with a velciloraptor, I would only last one minute and six seconds chained to said bunkbed. At which point I would, presumably, perish, courtesy of the pointy bits of the veciloraptor. Which had also been chained to the bunkbed. (What I want to know is how long I would survive chained to a bunkbed with Mickey Rourke.)