The chances that Beefy T you're wearing was made in the USA are about to get slimmer. Hanesbrands announced Wednesday that it's closing four of its plants in its home state of North Carolina, as well as three in Central America, as a cost-cutting measure. In brief, the apparel company plans to lay...
Choosy mothers should probably choose Jif if they want to scrape more peanut butter out of a standard-size jar. According to CNN, competing sandwich spread Skippy is among numerous brand names that have quietly shrunk the size of their packaging as a means of passing on food inflation to...
Update May 2009: A recent study in the U.K. found that, thanks to the recession, 5 million English homeowners have considered becoming 'reluctant landlords' by renting out rooms.
When my friend Michael, an inveterate couch surfer, turned up on my doorstep a few years ago, my boyfriend had just...
Update May 2009: As cities suffer declining revenue thanks to the recession, expect more parking meters. This is all good news for anyone looking to rent out an off-street parking spot in a popular location.
I had two parking spaces and one car. My upstairs neighbors had two parking spaces and...
Paying the higher cost of a higher education
12:30 PM 6/5/2008
When Ashley Overhouse's parents found out that the cost of her first year at the University of California-Santa Cruz would be almost 8% higher than they'd thought, she says they had an understandable reaction: "They freaked."
Ashley's parents aren't alone. As tuitions and fees continue to rise both...
Wanna get away? With all apologies to Southwest Airlines, it's not looking like the travel industry is going to get a boost from Bush's economic stimulus package: Only one in five of approximately 1,000 respondents to a recent USA Today/Gallup Poll said they were likely to use part or all of their...
Recession watch: Catalytic converter thefts test car owners' mettle
9:00 AM 4/29/2008
This post is part of a series about real-life signs we're in a recession. My brother-in-law recently wound up paying a lot more than he expected when he left my nephew's Toyota Tacoma in the Oakland Airport's long-term parking for the weekend. When he returned from his trip and turned the key in...
Since co-authoring The Three Trillion Dollar War with Linda Bilmes, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz has tried to help American taxpayers wrap their heads around just how much our government is spending on the conflicts and subsequent occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan by doing some...
I've noted before that my experience buying food at dollar stores has been dicey at best, not so much because they sell off-brands but because they often sell old off-brands, items so far past their expiration dates as to present gastric health hazards. Also, a lot of this so-called food has very...
I've learned two important wine-tasting lessons in recent weeks:
1. If you find a wine you really like at BevMo's 5-cent sale, get as much of it as you can (ill) afford. I was stoked to find that my local BevMo was offering the 2006 Tapiz Malbec as a selection in its "buy one bottle, get a second...
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