Now through Monday, November 15, Lumber Liquidators is offering discounts of more than 50% on dozens of brands of flooring—including Washington Cherry laminate flooring selling for $1.29 per square foot (comparable value: $3.39), and a Maize Cherry laminate for 59¢ per square foot (comparable value: $1.29).
Plenty of rappers talk about money. But the lyricists in these videos really rap about money—not pimpin’ or drug deals, but international currency policy, bank bailouts, taxes, tithing, and other aspects of the gangsta economist lifestyle. They also make videos that feature Christians dancing like MC Hammer and the New Kids on the Block, or [...]
The big news today in online holiday shopping is that Walmart is offering totally free shipping—no minimum purchase requirements whatsoever—for thousands of items purchased at its website, including plenty of toys, electronics, and other popular gifts. It’s not even Thanksgiving, and the retail giant is throwing its weight around, throwing down the gauntlet, and otherwise [...]
What might that beauty be? According to a New York Times editor, it’s that customers who pay for print subscriptions with credit cards barely notice home-delivery rate increases, and that those who use plastic for subscriptions are “literally not understanding what they’re paying.”
If you ever wanted to make sense of the bubble-riding, downsizing, outsourcing, debt-inducing, credit-crazy, middle-class-destroying era we’ve all just lived through—and in many ways, which we all continue to live in—a comic book will do the job as good as any. Hilarious, clever, very relevant, and remarkably insightful and thought-provoking, “The Adventures of Unemployed Man” [...]
Now through November 17, select refrigerators, oven ranges, washers, dryers, dishwashers, microwave ovens, and vacuum cleaners are marked down by hundreds of dollars at Home Depot. For example, an LG 25-cubic-foot fridge, originally priced at $2,399, is now available for $1,198. You can also save more when purchasing more than one select Maytag or Amana [...]
Answer: They can potentially do pretty much the same thing to your home’s value that some pets do on the rug.
Thursday, November 11, marks not only Veterans Day, but the year’s last fee-free day at national parks and monuments around the country. All national parks that usually charge admission are waiving normal fees so that all comers can visit for free.
What is the state of competition in the health care marketplace? How likely (or unlikely) are people to follow doctor’s orders when said orders come with a hefty price tag? Why is the middle class the fastest growing group to not have health insurance? Read on for answers.
Today’s electronics are cheap to buy, relatively speaking. But they break quickly. They’re expensive if not impossible to fix. Even when they don’t break, they seem outdated soon after they’re out of that annoying, clamshell, sealed-tight packaging. The result is that consumers often feel like they need a new laptop, TV, or digital camera mere [...]
Why? Because electricians can pretty much charge whatever they want—and if you don’t bother getting multiple bids, you’re likely to give the first electrician you talk to whatever he wants.
