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Amid the gloom of higher credit card rates, more fees, and more credit card accounts being canceled, there’s a silver lining: The once-constant stream of junk-mail solicitations for new credit cards has slowed down dramatically.
As a MarketWatch piece shows, the number of credit-card mailings has gone down in eight straight quarters. Solicitations in the third quarter of 2009 are down 71% compared to last year.
A frantic search for safe, guaranteed monthly income in retirement is leading government and big employers to make their 401(k) plans look a lot more like a traditional pension. But you will still have to self fund
Daily deal giant Groupon is known for its peculiar sense of humor. There was the time the site “bought” April Fool’s Day. The introduction of marketing gimmicks like the creepy virtual discount wheel called “Clicky” can only be attributed to some offbeat sense of what’s amusing. And of course, from the beginning, subscribers have been reading Groupon’s trademark absurdist, careful-not-to-offend descriptions for deals arriving in their in-boxes. The fact that there’s a network sitcom in the works featuring Groupon is apparently no joke, however.
