Daily Archives: January 7, 2009

Hot or Not?

January 7, 2009 – 10:59 pm

by Hans Eisenbeis
Rob Walker, the Times’ estimable columnist on all things related to consumerism, seems awfully dismissive of the idea that thrift is the new black. I don’t know which set of abysmal numbers he’s not looking at — consumer confidence (in the tank), retail sales (ninth circle of hell), deflation (snake’s belly @ wagon [...]

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Best of 2008: Got yours? Website tries to return $30 billion of missing money

January 7, 2009 – 9:00 am

by Hans Eisenbeis
WHAT’S HAPPENING

MissingMoney.com is a website that keeps track of unclaimed property. It’s estimated that American consumers have misplaced or forgotten more than $30 billion, and it’s only a few clicks away (Dateline.MSNBC.com 6.15.08).
Most unclaimed property is in the range of $100 to $1,000 and comes from forgotten deposit checks, refunds and closed accounts.
Though [...]

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