Tag Archives: Consumer confidence

Podcast: Big Issues

March 2, 2009 – 3:33 pm

Are we becoming a socialist country? Is wealth being redistributed? Will there ever be a recovery? Derek Stubbs and Hans Eisenbeis bid a fond farewell to Christopher Keating. Download this week’s economic podcast here: Big Issues: Bottoms Up Week 20 37 min., 5 sec.

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Podcast: Facial Hair in a Recession?

February 24, 2009 – 3:27 pm

Derek Stubbs and Hans Eisenbeis tackle the tough issues: increases in loan delinquency, the lost decade for the S&P 500 and why it’s a good time to grow a beard. Download this week’s economic podcast here: Facial Hair in a Recession?: Bottoms Up Week 19 29 min., 35 sec.

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Consumers worry: Biggest credit card heist ever?

February 12, 2009 – 6:08 am

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING Heartland Payment Systems reported in January 2009 that their databases had been breached in 2008, exposing up to 100 million credit card holders to potential fraud (WashingtonPost.com 1.20.09). The New Jersey company processes electronic payments for small and mid-sized businesses, especially restaurants. The good news? The crooks were not able […]

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Podcast: The Toxicity Experts

February 2, 2009 – 3:02 pm

Chris Keating, Derek Stubbs and Hans Eisenbeis talk about economic recovery, consumers going cold turkey and Michael Phelps’s pot pipe. Download this week’s economic podcast here: The Toxicity Experts: Bottoms Up Week 16 40 min., 1 sec.

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Trust Issues

January 13, 2009 – 3:25 pm

by Charlotte Beal The close of 2008 and the opening of 2009 brought a trifecta of disturbing stories that have food-aware consumers reeling. One: The FDA issued a proposal saying (to paraphrase) that despite reports to the contrary from our country’s own environmental agency, consumers should eat more fish — mercury poisoning be damned (Chicago […]

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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 @ […]

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