Groupon shmoupon. Wired’s latest issue features a piece on ninja online bargain shoppers who show just how far traditional coupon snipping has come. There’s a woman who drives away from a food shopping trip with $80 worth of groceries and and a payment from the store – ““I actually made money on this trip” – and particular emphasis on the efforts at websites SlickDeals and GottaDeal.
For over a month, I’ve been concerned that markets have been pricing in a pair of conflicting economic scenarios. We first laid out the paradox in early December: equity investors say that they are hopeful for a soft landing for the economy yet seem to relish signals of more overt weakness.
There were signals of some uncertainty about the pace of future rate cuts, which slightly unsettled the markets.
Cloud computing is a prime focus of technology growth
Such a large amount of financial headlines in recent years on what is mostly a political website represents a key shift in society.
