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• Jezenomics: Why People Buy Expensive Shit, Explained At Last

  Published: August 9, 2007, 1:58 pm

  Tags: Consumerist, Expensive Shit, Jezenomics, Veblenomics

  Expensive shit just keeps getting expensiver and expensiver, and both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal run stories today trying to come up with reasons people keep buying it. But while... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Jezenomics: Erin Burnett Teaches Us To Use Terrible World Events To Our Advantage: An Inspiring Story Of A Blogger And Her Collection Agent

  Published: August 27, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Cnbc, Erin Burnett, Jezenomics, Maria Bartiromo, Money Honey, Top

  CNBC's Money Honey 2.0 Erin Burnett is profiled in today's Washington Post. Fittingly, we read the story while waiting on hold with one of the lawyers hired by one of our loan shark creditors and... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Fashion Is Weak: Fashion Is, Actually, Mostly About Vanity And Consumerism

  Published: September 4, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Fashion Weak, Guy Trebay, Jezenomics, Manifesto, New York Times

  Fashion Week is here! And with it, the inevitable Fashion Week-pegged crop of even more inevitable stories about the many wondrous aspects of making clothes: The one declaring the "paradigm shift"... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Jezenomics: Did 'Eat, Pray, Love' Sell Millions Because Elizabeth Gilbert Cheated On Her Husband?

  Published: September 14, 2007, 5:15 pm

  Tags: Books, Eat Pray Love, Elizabeth Gilbert, Jezenomics, Wall Street Journal

  Today's WSJ has a story that explains in painstaking detail how Eat, Pray, Love became the most popular book we ever hated ourselves for loving, despite so-so hardcover sales. In the event you... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Clips: 'My Super Sweet Sixteen': Look What My Daddy Did With All That Money He Stole From Those Dumb Investors Edition

  Published: September 17, 2007, 7:30 pm

  Tags: Clips, Jezenomics, My Super Sweet 16

  newVideoPlayer("sweet16girl_gawker.flv", 475, 376); You know what? I would not begrudge rich people if they weren't so fucking stupid. This guy collected a few million dollars from people who are... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Jezenomics: Do Guys Have A Problem When You Pay For Shit?

  Published: September 24, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Douchebags, Jezenomics, New York Times, Top

  "Dating down" on the income ladder is apparently a hot new trend for girls because they're so much more educated than dudes these days. I call bullshit on this trend because between the student loans... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Jezenomics: An Ode To Kombucha, An Alcoholic's Only Healthy Habit. But Why Does It Cost So Much?

  Published: September 24, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Consmerist, Expensive Shit, Feature, Jezenomics, Top

  Birthdays are a convenient chance to reflect how one's identity has manifested itself in one's habits, and until the start of my twenty-eighth year my habits were numerous and universally awful.... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Jezenomics: What Nintendo's Rise Means For Those Of Us With Tits

  Published: September 25, 2007, 3:00 pm

  Tags: Jezenomics, Kotaku, Nintendo, Top

  Nintendo is now Japan's second-largest company after Toyota. At first when we heard this, we were like, "whatever, Softbank used to be Japan's second-largest company after Toyota," but this time it... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Jezenomics: Nike To Native Americans: Your Moccasins Are Making You Fat

  Published: September 26, 2007, 2:30 pm

  Tags: Consumerist, Jezenomics, Native Americans, Nike, Top

  Nike is producing a special line of not-for-profit shoes just for Native Americans. Not only does the design feature several of what the company terms "heritage callouts" -- sunrise patterns, feather... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Superfreakonomics: Do Some Women Fake Orgasms Just Because They Are Insane?

  Published: October 2, 2007, 5:00 pm

  Tags: Jezenomics, Sex, Superfreakonomics, The Game Theory, Top

  We thought that the phenomenon of economists ignoring pressing issues pertaining to the economy in order to study random shit like "happiness" and crap was relatively recent. Then a reader sent us a... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Jezenomics: Women Have Gotten Less Happy, I'll Take My Graphing Calculator Out And Prove It

  Published: October 3, 2007, 1:00 pm

  Tags: Jezenomics, Math Class Duh

  Remember that study on women being less happy than men? Sounds about right, right? The internerds thought so! (Different ways internet commenters said no shit: "Boo hoo, the feminists made their bed... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• The World Is Flat Chested: Tom Friedman: Younger Generation Should Be More Cynical, Like Paris Hilton

  Published: October 10, 2007, 12:30 pm

  Tags: Jezenomics, Paris Hilton, The World Flat, The World Flat Chested, Tom Friedman, Top, Wonktte

  The NY Times' Tom Friedman wrote a column today on how the younger generation is colossally clueless and terrifyingly sanguine about how fucked we are on account of his generation, possibly because... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• Jezenomics: Do Women Pick Workplaces Like They Pick Boyfriends? Forbes' List Makes You Wonder...

  Published: October 11, 2007, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Forbes, Jezenomics, Valleywag

  Forbes came out with one of those "Top 100" lists it generates every few hours and it's all about powerful women. But don't touch that scrollbar! The Street went through the list, did the dirty work... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• History Lessons: Former YSL Exec Wonders: Is All That Expensive Crap Really Necessary? (Hint: No!)

  Published: October 17, 2007, 11:30 am

  Tags: Claudia Cividino, Consumerist, History Lessons, Jezenomics, John Kenneth Galbraith, Luxury Brands, Yves St Laurent

  A few months back a curious thing happened to a big luxury brand executive: she began questioning what the crap the point of all those logos was. So she quit her job at Yves St. Laurent and got a new... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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• How To Get Ahead: Want A Better Job? Stop Working Right Now And Get Your Nails Did!

  Published: October 18, 2007, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Corporate Casual, How To Get Ahead, Jezenomics, Top

  Want to get ahead in your career? Lose the saddlebags and spend an extra half hour on your hair every morning! That is the advice of career columnist and author Penelope Trunk, whose latest Yahoo!... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

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