WePay pored over some academic papers, Consumer Reports, and trade group publications to produce a helpful infographic on the behavioral economics of holiday gift giving. It’s interesting that an unused AMC Theaters gift card has a higher secondary market value (just 20% down) than one from 1-800 Flowers (30% off) – that one is from Cardpool.
Grantham and his team warned of the dangers of the 1990s tech bubble years before it burst, and warned of the consequences of the 2000s housing bubble long before anyone else took it seriously.
Investors in emerging markets are hoping the world’s second largest economy can turn things around.
The current state of the housing market remains a huge problem for 2%, as home values remain at all-time highs due to an undersupplied market and many homeowners who are locked in at 2% to 4% mortgages, constraining inventory and leading to sticky rents.
Lee Eisenberg, former editor-in-chief of Esquire, wrote a book on Americans and shopping. As part of his research, Eisenberg investigated the conventional […]
