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• Save 20% Storewide at Kodak

  
  Stealth Acquisitions — Authority: 126
  For one day only! Kodak is offering 20% off their entire store!**On December 8th, save on digital frames, pocket video cameras, digital cameras, printers and much, much more. This is a limited time offer and lasts for only twenty-four hours!Details:Save 20% Storewide *Starts 12/8 at 7am EST, Ends 12/9 at 7am ESTShop ...
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• booksellers! don’t digest the assets, man

  
  Baroque in Hackney — Authority: 512
  Oh God, here’s something I wanted to post a link to the other day, when my booksellers-stroke-Borders post was at the top. A brave and enterprising (and apparently 12-year-old) bookseller in the USA has bucked the trend and offered an anti -discount to start the XMas shopping season. …Many booksellers’ ...
  1 week ago

• iPhone Lands in South Korea

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 690
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• Apple Dreaming of a Federal Reserve Green Christmas

  
  Digital Daily — Authority: 690
  Expectations for Apple are running high following its record September quarter and the company is well-poised to meet them, if Black Friday sales are any indication. Thomas Weisel Partners visited 41 Apple (AAPL) retail locations in the United States, Canada and the U.K. over the weekend and was impressed by what ...
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• Beckersurf Black Friday & Cyber Monday Offers!

  
  Stealth Acquisitions — Authority: 126
  Beckersurf is offering between 10% and 30% discount on selected items for Black Friday and Cyber Monday.Women’s Surf Apparel UP TO 50% OFF!!Men’s Surf Apparel UP TO 50% OFF!!FREE MILITARY SHIPPING to all AE, AA, and AP addresses!Billabong RISING SUN boardshorts!!REEF Mick FANNING Sandals IN-STOCK!!* (excluding ...
  1 week ago

• Consumer Confidential: Holiday sales, prudent plastic, bad cribs

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 699
  Heres your mail-it-in Monday roundup of consumer news from around the Web: --And the Black Friday express rolls on. Amazon.com and Best Buy are the latest major retailers to kick off discounted sales ahead of the customary day-after-Thanksgiving shop-a-thon. Many of the big boys are also planning additional sales ...
  2 weeks ago

• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 5: Deference to Authority

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 566
  by Glen Whitman Another problem with the new paternalism is that it necessarily involves greater deference to the authority of experts. Here is the basic logic (p. 710): Substantial deference to authority is inherent in the application of new paternalist ideas to public policy. This is because the complexities, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Access to Finance Still Critical

  
  SME Business News — Authority: 409
  Access to finance remains a serious problem for British businesses, despite the Bank of England pumping 200 billion into the economy to boost money supply and stimulate lending. In the latest Monthly Business Survey, published by the British Chambers of Commerce, 33% of companies reported that accessing finance had ...
  2 weeks ago

• Wal-Mart reduces the cost of money transfers

  
  Money & Company — Authority: 699
  Wal-Mart has had the giant scissors out lately, cutting the price of toys, books, DVDs, flat-screen TVs and the fixings for Thanksgiving dinner, among other things. The company announced today that its reducing the fees it charges to send money during the busy holiday season. Consumers can send up to $200 anywhere ...
  2 weeks ago

• Perspectives on the elephant of college pricing

  
  Changing Higher Education — Authority: 99
  Several recent reports enable us to look at the elephant of college pricing from several different perspectives. I will focus on data regarding the four year private non-profit sector since that is the sector I know the best, although the data regarding other sectors is equally rich and interesting.  Perhaps the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Are Franchisees Being Discounted to Death?

  
  Franchisor Marketing — Authority: 107
  Discount fast food franchise promotions like Subway’s $5 Footlongs, Quiznos Million Sub Giveaway and McDonald’s $1 menu, and Burger Kiong’s $1 Double Cheeseburger are attractive to consumers and great for the franchisor… but what about the franchise owners who foots the bills?  According to Smart Money, some ...
  3 weeks ago

• SUBWAY: What Do Franchisees Make on $5 Footlongs?

  
  Unhappy Franchisee — Authority: 421
  Discount promotions like Subway’s $5 Footlongs sub campaign provide are attractive to consumers and great for the franchisor… but what about the Subway franchise owner who foots the bill?  According to Smart Money, Subway franchisees make a “Profit of roughly $1.20 a sandwich.”// Product discounting is one of ...
  3 weeks ago

• LITTLE CAESARS: What Franchisees Make on a $5 Pizza

  
  Unhappy Franchisee — Authority: 421
  Question:  Can Little Caesar’s franchise owners really make money on a five-dollar pizza? Answer:  Not much.   SmartMoney.com surveyed franchisees from different franchise chains regarding the cost to them of some current and recent promotions. The Smart Money article points out that franchisees ...
  3 weeks ago

• McDONALD’S: What Franchisees Make on a $1 Burger

  
  Unhappy Franchisee — Authority: 421
  Question:  Can McDonald’s franchise owners really make money on a dollar-menu hamburger? Answer:  A little.  But they’ve got to make it up on higher profit items – like fries and soda – if they want to stay in business. SmartMoney.com surveyed franchisees from different franchise chains regarding the ...
  3 weeks ago

• “Nobody Has Ever Seen This Market”

  
  Sense on Cents — Authority: 478
  “I’ve seen this market before” is a very commonly used phrase by Wall Street professionals to compare and contrast different periods. For example, when the Treasury yield curve is steepening or flattening , many market pros will project what will happen in different segments of the market based on ...
  4 weeks ago

• How to Calculate Interest [and How Does It Work?]

  
  Accounting-financial-tax.com offers bookkeeping journal entry basic accounting financial accounting management accounting tax accounting cash management accounting cost accounting financial ratio budget forecasting — Authority: 129
  Sure, most people know that interest is the cost of borrowing money or the income from saving money. And they know that they should earn a return on their investments. However, when put in a specific borrowing, saving, or investing situation, people aren’t sure how interest is calculated and exactly what different ...
  4 weeks ago

• New Paternalism on the Slippery Slopes, Part 3: Hyperbolic Discounting

  
  ThinkMarkets — Authority: 566
  by Glen Whitman New paternalists often rely on the phenomenon of “hyperbolic discounting” to justify their policies. Hyperbolic discounting is difficult to define in a non-mathematical way. It is sometimes summarized as excessive impatience, but that’s an over-simplification. A person with a high-but-consistent ...
  4 weeks ago

• Keep Calm and Carry On?

  
  The Casual Optimist — Authority: 122
  There is nothing quite like pricing to get book people’s pulses racing and the recent price war in the US — and the American Booksellers Association’s open letter to the Department of Justice — certainly has everyone and their mother all aflutter. We have plenty of pricing issues of own in Canada. The ...
  4 weeks ago

• Sir Alan - You’re Fired?

  
  SME Business News — Authority: 409
  The Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has called for the resignation of the Government’s Enterprise Tsar, Lord Alan Sugar Following a meeting of the FSB’s National Council this afternoon (Wednesday, 4 November) in central London, the ruling body of the organisation was unanimous in its agreement that Lord ...
  5 weeks ago

• Risk Aversion, Impatience & Cognitive Ability

  
  Geary Behavioural Economics Blog — Authority: 141
  Are Risk Aversion and Impatience Related to Cognitive Ability? Dohmen Thomas,Falk Armin,Huffman David This paper investigates whether risk aversion and impatience are correlated with cognitive ability. We conduct incentive compatible choice experiments measuring risk aversion, and impatience over an annual time ...
  5 weeks ago

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