In terms of Halloween outfits, you can go cheap and easy, or put a little money into a costume that’ll last. Or you can play off what’s in the news (the recession!) with a clever, timely costume like a Pyramid Scheme, a Bear Market, a Repo Man, a Job Seeker, or, scariest of all, Bernie Madoff. Warning: not appropriate for children.
Lloyd Blankfein: What’s good for Goldman Sachs is good for America
Fortune put on a breakfast with Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein this morning at Bobby Van’s Steakhouse a couple doors down from the Time & Life Building. First came coffee and pastries, and then a conversation between Blankfein and Fortune editor Andy Serwer.
It was pretty entertaining, and Blankfein came across as more of a mensch …
Marketing smart of the day: Häagen-Dazs Five
With the economy still somewhat slow, companies probably don’t want to be going hog-wild on the R&D spending. Yet at the same time, with consumer dollars tight, companies likely also want to have flashy new products to dangle in front of people, to tempt them to spend what little cash they are shelling out at said company. What to do? …
Or Perhaps It’s Wiser to Spend More on Halloween Costumes
Poorly-crafted homemade Halloween costumes can be a little sad. The results just don’t wind up looking like the ones in the magazine photos. Some of the cheap store-bought costumes are likely to rip before the kid’s candy sack is one-quarter full.
Ten Ideas for Cheap and Easy Halloween Costumes
Are you lazy? Cheap? Prone to procrastination? All of the above? If so, one or these easy and inexpensive costume ideas may be right for you or your kids.
The Rise of the $30 Prepaid Monthly Cell Phone Bill
After a trial run, Wal-Mart is planning on selling Straight Talk Tracfone phones around the country. The prepaid phones do NOT have long-term contracts—no worries about about ETFs (early termination fees)—and come with monthly plans that start at $30.
New Credit Card Annual Fees Arrive for Those Who Pay Bills on Time
You’d think that a credit card customer who pays his or her bill on time is a good customer. But these customers don’t make the banks and credit card companies money—at least not enough of it.
Are you a fan?
James Dyson, the man who brought us the vacuum cleaner of the future, has a new device: the bladeless fan. It’s already getting rave reviews, despite its $300+ price tag. No one sent me one (I guess because all the freebies now go to people who only blog), so I can’t tell you how the thing blows, but I can at least offer up some videos. …
20 Money-Saving iPhone Apps
Cheapskate? There’s an app for that. Lots and lots of them, actually. There are iPhone apps that will plot a busy day of hitting yard sales, produce coupons for instant discounts at supermarkets, shops, and restaurants, do price comparisons and summon product reviews while you’re mulling the options inside a store, and even help you trim …
At least some banks are losing money
First Goldman Sachs reports earnings of $3.2 billion for the quarter. But then, a few minutes later, Citigroup tells the world that it sort of made a little money but also sort of lost a lot of money (that is, it reported net income of $101 million, but said that, after dividends to preferred shareholders and its exchange of the …
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It’s morning in Buffalo
Yeah, I know, it’s morning in the rest of America—and in the rest of the Americas—too. But I’m in Buffalo. And this is what I saw when I went out for a morning walk around 7:30: