As food prices soar, Cheapskate Columnist Neal Templin offers grocery shoppers a battle plan this holiday season.
11/19/2008
"My formula for success is rise early, work late and strike oil." —John Paul Getty
Consumer Credit outstanding fell $14.8b in Sept seasonally adjusted, almost $5b more than expected and marks the 11th month in the past 12 of declines. At $2.456T outstanding, it is 4.9% below the record high in July '08. After a flat reading in Aug, (didn't fall b/c of the CARS program), non revolving debt outstanding fell by $4.9B. Revolving (mostly credit cards) balances outstanding fell by $9.9B. To fully put into perspective today's data, look at the current level of consumer credit (doesn't include mortgages, the biggest chunk of consumer credit) relative to GDP. As of Q3, it totaled 17.2%...
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November 24th, 2008 at 12:50 am
I wish you would fix these dead video’s or if you can’t, at least put the source link here so we can get to them! Otherwise, what is the point in publishing them? I’ve noticed that the broken usually get low (or as this one) zero comments. That would seem to indicate that others are having problems also. I am in FF 3.0.4.
November 24th, 2008 at 7:03 am
There is a problem viewing these clips. It seems to be a recent problem.