The past few years, with “this economy” and all, have given rise to more and more talk about a formally very taboo topic:
Money.
But, what still seems pretty taboo, at least in my social circle, is talk about debt.
Student loans are a common gripe from 20-somethings my age, but beyond that, I’ve never had more than a few sentence conversion about credit cards, or other “bad debt”.
Except of course when someone whips out their “rewards credit card” at a dinner and explains,
“I get like 1% cashback at XYZ store”
To which I always try to hide my thoughts. I know responsibl
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According to data released earlier today by the Japan Chain Stores Association, supermarket sales in Japan fell 1.2% to 1.05 trillion yen in July.
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A Franco-Israeli entrepreneur is hoping to rekindle some of the optimism of the dotcom boom with a new social networking site that combines the mass-audience reach of eBay with the trend for grassroots funding of small businesses.
Serge Bueno, who relaunched the SodaStream soft drinks maker in mainland Europe, is hoping that his latest project, called the Tribe, will help the next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs get off the ground by providing them with a ready-made market.
His plan comes as the UK government continues to press high street banks to start lending to small businesses again. Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, admitted this month that the credit crunch was lasting longer than he expected.
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Wag the Dog Marketing Internet Defamation of Character Repair
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— James Adams @ 2:41 am — 
August 23, 2010