In recessions and booms alike, stock markets are always at the forefront. Newspapers and financial publications are awash in headlines about the Dow Jones, S&P 500, NASDAQ, rising stock indexes, falling stock indexes, buying, selling, and so forth. And it is tempting to think of a stock market as an impersonal mechanism in the sky, [...]
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Stormy Daniels for Senate – are you in?
The fur's beginning to fly for Ms. Stormy (Photo: scrapetv.com)
Remember the story I ran a few months ago about adult film star Stormy Daniels (real name Stephanie Clifford) and her race to become a Senator from her home state of Louisiana? Ms. Daniels is sticking to the plan, [...]
Citigroup Inc., which received $45 billion in government bailout money, gave employees $5.33 billion in bonuses for 2008, Andrew Cuomo said. The bank gave 738 of its employees bonuses of at least $1 million each. Bank of America Corp., which also received $45 billion, paid $3.3 billion in bonuses.
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The August issue of the Journal of Consumer Research arrived in my mailbox yesterday. It contains an interesting article from Nicolao, Irwin, and Goodman entitled “Happiness for Sale: Do Experiential Purchases Make Consumers Happier than Material Purchases?” This is a topic we’ve skirted at Get Rich Slowly, but never fully explored. Many readers have offered [...]
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Ruby’s Diner and CureDuchenne team up
Good food for a good cause.
Ruby’s Diner, a casual dining chain based in Newport Beach, Calif., has teamed with CureDuchenne to raise money to find a cure for Duchenne Musuclar Dystrophy. If you print out a flier from the CureDuchenne web site and bring it into Ruby’s Diner in Corona [...]