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- Douglas Rushkoff: Economics is not natural science
- The first innovation was to centralize currency. What better way for the already rich to maintain their wealth than to make money scarce?
- 2009-11-01 to bestof, books, business, currency, economics, history, middle class, society by soobrosa
- Doll power: Barbie celebrates 50th anniversary and toy world dominance
- Even at 50 Barbie shows no sign of slowing. The former model, whose cv runs from palaeontologist to presidential candidate, is worth $3 billion a year and looks better than ever. She’s had a bit of work done, but she’s no passive bimbo and she’ll fight li
- 2009-02-20 to barbie doll, bestof, business, history, programming, toys by bagoly
- The Man Who Was Texas
- In the late 1940s, the press informed an astonished America that some of its wealthiest citizens were a group of oilmen that included H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Hugh Roy Cullen. Another of them, the swaggering, combustible Glenn McCarthy, would emer
- 2008-09-24 to business, fame, history, oil, portrait, story by bagoly
- Stephen Koepp: "Can You Believe This Price?"
- When HSN went public last May, its shares skyrocketed from 18 to 42 on the first day, and are now about 118 (after adjustment for a 3-for-l stock split).
- 2008-09-21 to bestof, business, history, shopping, teleshopping by soobrosa
- Thomas Zucco: It started with 112 can openers
- Today, 25 years later, the Home Shopping Network is the oldest of TV's 24-hour product pitchers, offering cubic zirconium to cruises. And raking in billions of dollars.
- 2008-09-21 to bestof, business, history, shopping, teleshopping by soobrosa
- Classified Matters
- It is a fight over who has the authority to declare quality in the wine world, a clash between 19th-century agrarian tradition and 21st-century administrative law and a sign of the growing rift between the handful of superelite vineyards in Bordeaux and t
- 2008-08-27 to business, history, wine by bagoly
- Profiles: I-eclectic, Reminiscent, Amused, Fickle, Perverse: The New Yorker
- Ahmet had signed the Rolling Stones to a new contract. Ahmet had brought the group Crosby, Stills & Nash back to an active career at Atlantic. And Ahmet had begun to negotiate with Ray Charles, the powerful rhythm-and-blues singer, who had given Atlantic
- 2008-08-25 to business, history, music, profile by bagoly
- The Drive-In Theater Turns 75
- However, it took an auto-parts salesman such as Hollingshead to see the genius in giving a car-loving society one more activity they could do in their vehicles.
- 2008-07-01 to bestof, business, history, movies by bagoly
- Mexican standoff: the battle of Chichen Itza
- Since being named as one of the Seven New Wonders of the World, the Mayan temple has been the focus of an ownership dispute between a local family and those who want it to be returned to the people.
- 2007-11-16 to bestof, business, history, seven wonders, tourism by bagoly
- Hitler’s Carmaker: The Inside Story Of How General Motors Helped Mobilize The Third Reich
- GM was responsible for stunning growth in Germany’s economy. As most economists of the day knew, and as Sloan himself bragged, automobile manufacturing created thousands of factory jobs, hundreds of suppliers, numerous dealerships, widespread motorization
- 2007-05-16 to business, cars, history by bagoly
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