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When You Want to Feel No Pain, Grab Hold of Some Cash
The next time you feel the need to pop an Aspirin or down a stiff drink, you might want to consider another remedy to numb the pain: rifling through some greenbacks.
Drink Like a College Student: Bottom-Shelf Booze on the Rise
Sign of the times: Liquor sales rose moderately in 2009, with the biggest growth among cheap brands like Popov vodka.
What You Might Soon Be Tempted to Buy: Marijuana-Chic ‘Relaxing’ Soda, $6 Donuts
When one fad succeeds, you can be assured that similar ones will follow. New anti-energy drinks are being marketed as alternatives to (what else?) energy drinks like Red Bull, while designer donuts that cost $5 or $6 a pop are playing off the upscale cupcake craze.
Why People Are Poor: No Savings Accounts. Also: Booze, Cigarettes, and Whores
One reason people live poverty-stricken lives in developing countries like Nicaragua is that jobs pay meager wages. Also, there aren’t that many places to save your money. Also, workers spend a big chunk of what little money they do make on vices, including alcohol, prostitutes, and Coca Cola.
Odd Economic Indicator Round-up: More Jews Moving to Israel, More-Cramped Cubicles, More Smoking and Surfing Porn
Perhaps they’re not quite as odd as the Hot Waitress Index (a theory in which waitresses get increasingly more attractive as the economy gets worse), but these trends are still rather unusual—yet revealing—indicators of how the economy is faring.
Whiskey Rebellion: Heading Over the Border to Avoid Booze Tax
Live free or die. And please stop by to shop for tax-free alcohol. New Hampshire, which doesn’t assess a tax on alcoholic beverages, is surrounded by states that do. And guess what? A disproportionate number of out-of-staters buy booze in the Granite State.