You Are What You Spend – New York Times “… if we compare the incomes of the top and bottom fifths, we see a ratio of 15 to 1. If we turn to consumption, the gap declines to around 4 to 1. A similar narrowing takes place throughout all levels…
The Big Picture | Cheap Gas “$21.19 for WATER – and the buyers don’t even know the source. No wonder Evian spelled backwards is Naive. Be glad your car doesn’t run on Scope, Whiteout, Pepto Bismal or Nyquil.”
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – William Morrow, 2005 It’s the little things that make the difference. Who you are when no one is looking, is who you are when all eyes are on you.
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis – fedgazette – Thomas J. Holmes on Wal-Mart’s location strategy – March 2006 Coming soon to a Wal-mart near you. How the Wal-borg organism has managed growth. ;)
