October 2008
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This Week’s Vague and Confusing Jobs
Like a Vegas casino, many of this week’s jobs are hard to navigate. Most–like a Vegas casino–are also located in Vegas. See how many of the first four gigs from this list you can actually comprehend: 1. Las Vegas: I need a animal to market me I’m a comedian/inspirational speaker looking for management. I need […]
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Exxon Mobile Makes Record Profit
From CNN Money: Exxon Mobil Corp. (XOM) set a quarterly profit record for a U.S. company Thursday, surging past analyst estimates. Exxon Mobil (XOM, Fortune 500), the leading U.S. oil company, said its third-quarter net profit was $14.83 billion, or $2.86 per share, up from $9.41 billion, or $1.70, a year earlier. That profit included […]
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Widespread Mortgage Refinance (Good Credit Doesn’t Pay)
Mine won’t be one of the three million mortgages expected to get a new deal via The Bailout. A little over five years ago my husband was transferred to a new city. We traveled to the new location to find a house, found a nice place in a good neighborhood with bedrooms for each kid, […]
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10 Halloween Costumes that will Make Your Wallet Scream in Terror
While hunting for expensive Halloween costumes, I figured there was a boutique or two that sold ridiculously pricey get-ups. There were–but they did not remotely measure up to the cornucopia of wallet-killing disguises on eBay. These designer dress-ups make the usual $40 costume look like a screaming deal: 1. Human Slinky: $182,000.00 This costume would […]
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Bad Economy Means Good Hollywood Movies
The LA Times reports on the correlation between bad US economies and good, if nihilistic, Hollywood movies: Great Hollywood movies and total economic collapse have a long and symbiotic history. The films of the 1930s were just as notable…for reflecting the panic, anger, disillusionment and despair brought on by the financial collapse as they were […]
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Professional Reputation Management Services: Stress or Necessity?
While reading Phil Baumann’s blog, I came across a suggestion for readers to get a professional reputation management service. I have heard of large companies using these kinds of services, but am less familiar with the idea of small companies using them. Small Business Search Marketing has a killer post on why small businesses should […]
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Credit Line Profiling: Right or Wrong?
From NPR: Credit card companies are trying to cut the credit lines of many customers. And they’re looking well beyond payment history — to who holds their mortgage, even where they shop. Customers are outraged, but card issuers say they are simply managing risk in tough economic times. The rest of the radio show goes […]
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T. Boone Pickens Loses $2 Billion
Nobody is immune from the bad market. The Wall Street Journal reports the severity with with T. Boone Pickens, energy investor par excellence, was hit: In the latest sign of how the financial crisis and steep drop in commodity prices since July have blindsided some of the most prominent investors, energy crusader T. Boone Pickens […]
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Spirit Halloween Stores Built on Carcasses
I’ve always been curious about the Spirit Halloween Stores that pop up like short-lived suburban mushrooms every fall. While I was shopping at one store last year, I asked one of the store managers what he rakes in every season. He said he’d pulled in $80,000 during the past few days (I was shopping for […]
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British Pub Unveils £1 “Credit Crunch Lunch”
Dear American pub owners everywhere, Please, please take a hint from the report below (Ananova): One resourceful pub landlord has decided to tackle the credit crisis by pricing all the meals on his menu at just £1 – and it’s working. …customers are flooding in and trade is flourishing, says Tony Rabbits who runs the […]
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Why Entrepreneurs Will Survive Doomsday
Everyone is nosing around for the next economic bubble. It might not turn out to be a proper bubble, but end of days business looks like a sound niche opportunity. Consider this… I’ve never been a big believer in end-of-days theories. They just seem too convenient. People timestamp their doomsday theories to feel more certain […]
