Eddie Bauer’s end-of-season sale offers discounts of up to 60 percent off of women’s shirts, skirts, dresses, shoes, sandals, and more. More details here.
A tale of two housing markets
Calculated Risk put up this chart today after the new-home sales numbers came out. The uptick in the red line is the stuff of headlines: CNNMoney.com’s was “New home sales: ‘Really good news’; Sales of newly constructed single family houses rose 11% over May, but median price fell 3%.” Yet I prefer to look at the chart for two reasons.
Cheapskate Wisdom from … Henny Youngman
“I’ve got all the money I’ll ever need, if I die by four o’clock.”
Netflix and Crocs: Recession Boom and Recession Bust
Tough times have a huge impact on what we buy, and what we don’t. In light of recent sales figures related to the brightly colored foam clogs known as Crocs and the mail-order DVD service known as Netflix, we’ve got two interesting recession case studies.
How Wall Street sold out America (the first time around)
Curmudgeon57 has asked that I not forget to blog about a Q&A I did with Karen Ho, a University of Minnesota anthropologist who spent some time working on Wall Street and lays the blame for our rent-a-job work culture firmly at the feet of investment bankers. She says:
What I found in my research was that in many ways investment bankers
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What Will a Cheapskate Spend Good Money On? Part VI
Even a cheapskate has to spend money sometimes. I’ve asked various frugal folks—bloggers, writers, money-saving and consumer experts—to compile personal, totally subjective lists of the products, services, experiences, and other “things” they’re willing to shell out good money on. Because if a cheapskate is willing to drop cash on …
It’s a Deal: More than 1,000 Items on Sale at Lands’ End
More than 1,000 items (1,096 at last check) are currently being discounted by as much as 75 percent during Lands’ End “the best of summer sale.”
Cheapskate Wisdom from … Tyler Durden in “Fight Club”
“The things you own end up owning you.”
Ten Oddball Ways to Save: Free Beer, Fighting Parking Tickets, Writing Off Expenses Like a Pro, and More
Today’s list goes beyond the basics. We all know that using coupons smartly saves money, right? To expand the amount of money you can save, you need to get creative and expand into more unusual spheres of money-saving.
What Will a Cheapskate Spend Good Money On? Part V
Even a cheapskate has to spend money sometimes. I’ve asked various frugal folks—bloggers, writers, money-saving and consumer experts—to compile personal, totally subjective lists of the products, services, experiences, and other “things” they’re willing to shell out good money on. Because if a cheapskate is willing to drop cash on …
New column: Too much profit?
My column in the new TIME addresses the Goldman Sachs/JPMorgan profitathon. My argument is that they’re making so much money because they’re better at what they do than their peers are. Which doesn’t necessarily mean we need to keep letting them make so much money.
This will probably be it for blogging from me today. We’re off to pick …
Dow 9,000! Which means we’re one-fourth of the way to 36,000!
An editor (I assume he’d prefer to remain nameless) poked his head into my office a little while ago to inform to me that the Dow Jones Industrials average had passed 9,000 today. So I did what every modern journalist does would do in such a situation and Googled “9,000 dow.” That led me to a blog post by Paul Krugman, headlined “Dow …