How to prepare for Armageddon in the office, and advice from 46 other experts in this super fun package put together by the editoria team at Bloomberg Businessweek.

At the sales office for a new development southeast of Phoenix called Waters at Ocotillo, the PulteGroup (PHM) representative says she’s too busy to talk. It’s a Monday afternoon. One customer is signing a contract in her office, she explains, and another is due soon. The model for Pulte’s Yucca home is open, though. The price starts at $392,990. It’s two stories and 2,688 square feet, designed for four bedrooms and three cars. It’s stucco—as is nearly every home in every subdivision in Phoenix—high-ceilinged, and energy-efficient. The model is completely furnished, with fake iPods, iPads, and family photos. There’s a real foosball table and Whitney Houston’s Greatest Love of All streams through built-in speakers. The Yucca is part of what homebuilder Pulte calls the Cactus line; there’s also the Majesty line, which is bigger and has courtyards.

This week’s issue of Bloomberg Businessweek looks at the housing recovery in metropolitan areas like Phoenix, where housing prices climbed by 22 percent last year. Arizona was number six in the country last year for job growth, and since housing inventory is low in Phoenix, prices of homes have risen and homebuilders are scrambling to buy land to build new subdivisions. It also helps to play Whitney Houston in model homes too, apparently.

The distributed workforce is what TaskRabbit, a company based in San Francisco, calls its online and mobile marketplace for odd jobs.

Bloomberg Businessweek put together some survival tips to prepare for the next cruise disaster.

Considering what's happened this week, why wouldn't you want to read about a post-apocalyptic self-sustaining farm run by a bunch of 20-something nerds?

I'm really enjoying the cover of Bloomberg Businessweek today. It seems like most people are too fixated on the economic crisis at home to give more than a few glances at the headlines pointing to the economic crises happening abroad.

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Bloomberg Businessweek has a pretty incredible story about a repo man who decided he was sick of repossessing minivans with baby seats in the back of them, and decided he wanted to focus on going after overleveraged rich people and their "high-dollar toys."