Holidays

Holiday Season Spending Infographic from GOOD

The good folks at GOOD have an infographic look at holiday spending posted with some really interesting facts.  One must take some of this stuff with a grain of salt as 2007 data is the predominant source.  Things were different back then – most of us had a pot to piss in. Happy Holidays 2009,…

Holiday Shopping Dead Today

Roosevelt Field, one of Long Island’s biggest shopping malls, was a ghost town today.  The streets and parking lots around it were barely plowed and the people were clearly staying away. I was only there to take care of business at the Apple Store, which in Roosevelt Field has just moved into a ginormous space,…

The Fox Biz Holiday Card

The media relations team at Fox Business Network sent me quite the Chrismas card.  It appears that the young network has inherited the super-competitive gene from it’s brother network Fox News.

Holiday Gift Idea for Traders: Chart Jewelry

Just in time for the holidays, allow me to introduce the new PLOT line of jewelry.  Launched by advertising firm Wieden + Kennedy, PLOT takes charts and turns them into wearable art.  Below is their gold necklace followed by the gold chart that inspired it: They’ve also done some cool stuff with the charts of…