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Consumers Permanently Changed By Recession, And That's Okay!Fri Oct 30th, 2009
Laurie Petersen When last we caught up with researcher Jim Taylor, vice chairman of The Harrison Group, he talked all about the emerging new resourcefulness of consumers. This week, delivering an update on the behav |
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Menu Magic: How Restaurants Encourage Us To Spend MoreThu Oct 29th, 2009
DivineCaroline With as many terrible typos and grammatical errors found on most menus, one would assume that they’re an afterthought for restaurants. But menus are the first thing people look at when trying t |
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Hollywood CEOs: Robert De NiroWed Oct 28th, 2009
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The building suffered through curbed consumer spending throughout 2008 and barely reached 50% occupancy by the following February.Outside |
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Three Restaurant Picks for Your PortfolioFri Oct 23rd, 2009
Josh Lipton When hunger pangs strike, it’s no surprise that Americans prefer staying in rather than dining out as this struggling economy tries to find its footing.And, as everybody knows, the restaurant i |
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Sex, Drugs, and the Rocky Economy: AlcoholThu Oct 22nd, 2009
Jarrod Dicker In times of financial insecurity, it seems reasonable to assume that Americans will lean firmer on their sinful addictions to muddle through the stress and volatility brought on by harsh economic tim |
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Why Microsoft's Downgrade Doesn't MatterThu Oct 1st, 2009
Glenn Curtis That’s two days in a row now that I’ve awakened with a wicked backache. You’ll be calling me the Hunchback of Minyanville soon.Asian stocks ended lower. The Hang Seng was closed on |
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Upgrades & Downgrades: Money Grows on Dollar TreeWed Sep 30th, 2009
Justin Sharon In a delicious irony, archaeologists unearthed Nero’s dining room a year to the day after Congressional fiddling while Rome burned caused stocks to crater. Yesterday’s decline in the Dow, |
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Get Fit for LessTue Sep 29th, 2009
Jill Jacinto For millions of Americans, working out falls right in there between getting their teeth drilled and waiting in line at the DMV. We make numerous excuses for putting it off -- lack of time, lack of mo |
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A New Dictionary of Realtor-SpeakMon Sep 28th, 2009
Carol Kopp If a real-estate listing describes a house as “lovingly maintained,” it means: a) Kindly overlook the worn shag carpeting b) The appliances are 30 years out of date c) Most of the walls a |
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Memoirs of a Minyan: Behind Closed DoorsWed Aug 19th, 2009
Todd Harrison Editor's Note: “Memoirs of a Minyan” is a first-person account that follows Minyanville founder Todd Harrison as he weaves his way through Wall Street and beyond. This e-Book will publish |






