So I was too busy smashing potatoes (with shallots, butter and cream), falling asleep in front of the TV with the Giants-Broncos game on, and other such important matters Thursday to pay attention to the global market freakout occasioned by Dubai World’s announcement that it was going to stop paying its debt bills for six months. (Dubai …
Banks? Drugstores? Fast Food? Home Sellers? Everyone Wants a Piece of the Black Friday Frenzy
Best Buy, Wal-Mart, Target, and all the usual suspects down at the mall are hardly the only businesses trying to grab consumers’ attention this weekend.
It’s a Deal: 50% Off at Boston Market This Weekend
Boston Market is giving shoppers incentive to not cook over this busy holiday weekend (so they can shop more, presumably). Print out this coupon and you’ll receive 50% off any Family Meal or Market Feast. The coupon is valid from Friday, November 27, to Sunday, November 29.
Happy Smurfsgiving
Credit Card Fee Watch: Will Big New Upfront Fees Replace the Hidden Old Ones?
In Australia, credit card issuers simply tack on a percentage—over 5% in some cases—when a customer makes a purchase using plastic. Is this where we’re headed?
Eat, Drink, and Be Miserly
The holiday season is a classic time to check the national mood and reflect. So how are we doing? Let’s just say you shouldn’t expect to see a new car with a bow on top in your driveway anytime soon.
Checkout Line Conundrums: Should You Get the Extended Warranty? What about the Store’s Credit Card?
Be on guard at the checkout line: In all the chaos of holiday shopping season, you can easily get talked into paying extra for some sort of extended service plan you don’t want, or into signing up for a credit card that saves you 10% upfront—and then hammers you with fees down the line.
It’s a Deal: 50% Off One Item at Ace Hardware
This Saturday, November 28, Ace Hardware will give customers 50% off any one item that costs under $30. A coupon is required. Print it here.
I gave a speech about Fischer Black, and all I got was this not-at-all-lousy T-shirt
Aaron Brown organized an event at Bloomberg HQ tonight to celebrate the reissue of the late Fischer Black’s books Business Cycles and Equilibrium and Exploring General Equilibrium. Haven’t read ’em, so I told some Fischer Black stories from my book. And I got this swell T-shirt. If I weren’t so tired I’d tell more (maybe later), but …
The Unemployment Bowling League
Once a week, a bowling alley in Michigan (where else?) welcomes about 150 unemployed workers, along with some hiring companies and employer reps, to try to throw some strikes and get their careers out of the gutter. It’s all free too.
Amazon vs. Wal-Mart: Which One is Godzilla and Which One is Mothra Again?
The downward GDP ratchet begins
Barbara can have her upbeat housing statistics. The Commerce Department’s Bureau of Economic Analysis delivered a downer today, revising its estimate of third-quarter GDP growth from 3.5% to 2.8%. The revision was primarily due, the BEA said, to
an upward revision to imports and downward revisions to personal consumption expenditures and
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