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Posts Tagged ‘prices’

RETAILERS NEED A BAILOUT

Price Cut On Hobo Beans

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009

Now 30 percent off!All of your aspirational yuppie mall brands like Pottery Barn and Williams Sonoma and Coach (which used to be legitimately fancy, years ago, before they decided to start selling loudly branded handbags to Bethesdan tweens) are having to lower prices permanently because nobody has money anymore and they don’t want to get people used to insane 75% off sales all the time. MORE »


OUR FLOURISHING ECONOMY

Deflation Kicks In As Americans Become Actively Scared Of Economy

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

The Federal Reserve this afternoon is expected to cut the fed funds rate from 1% to .5%, a modern record. The government is printing more money than you can shake a stick at, all night, every night, to give to financial companies. This should be an incredibly sexy time to make LOANS. Overnight loans, car loans, Truck Nutz loans, who cares, loans loans loans, free money! The only problem is that we’ve developed a terrorist’s mindset in which the American economy, as a whole, has become the enemy. MORE »


CRAIGSLIST

Americans Selling All Their Possessions On Craigslist

Wednesday, April 30th, 2008

Just like Tom Joad's blues ...That 0.6% bit of economic growth in the first quarter of 2008 was just the pathetic result of $3.50-a-gallon gasoline, but there is one sector of the U.S. economy that’s truly booming: Desperate Americans are selling off their last possessions on Craigslist and other online flea-market sites, just so they can buy a little food and gas. MORE »