Holidays by the Numbers
By Barry Ritholtz - December 29th, 2010, 2:30PM
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Please use the comments to demonstrate your own ignorance, unfamiliarity with empirical data, ability to repeat discredited memes, and lack of respect for scientific knowledge. Also, be sure to create straw men and argue against things I have neither said nor even implied. Any irrelevancies you can mention will also be appreciated. Lastly, kindly forgo all civility in your discourse . . . you are, after all, anonymous.
December 29th, 2010 at 2:52 pm
That’s a little scary. It’s odd to see the whole thing in such mercenary detail! Strangely, it also drives home that we’re not doing our “job” as consumers in my family. . . .we’ve never taken a photo with Santa. My kids think it’s creepy.
December 29th, 2010 at 5:04 pm
“250 will catch fire in someones home” (from the ‘info-graphic’, above)
?
that would seem suspicious to the Fire Chief, at the min., no?
December 29th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
“130 million pounds of eggnog are sold…” wonder what the bourbon and rum ratio is to even make that stuff palpable.
also, is there a correlation between the 5,340 visa swipes/minute and santa’s 3,604 miles/sec?
December 29th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
One hour of homework a week, per stock. That’s five hours a week, fifty two weeks a year… that’s only 260 hours a year… or a man-month-plus…
http://thestreet.com
…my advice is buy indices.
http://www.bogleheads.org/
…and meet a good sex partner with those precious 260 hours a year… In ten years, that’s a man-year spent.
Live. Buy indices. Get laid.
December 30th, 2010 at 12:19 am
Cops in Paramus NJ “closed” the Bergen Mall Friday night. There was no more room for the cars . Many that drove from NY were told to go home. Many thought the cops were making it up and called the station. They were told to go home.
December 30th, 2010 at 1:15 am
@Julia,
.we’ve never taken a photo with Santa. My kids think it’s creepy.
You can reassure them that photo technology has been around a long time and it is perfectly safe.
5,340 Visa swipes per minute
Yes, that is a good way to describe what Visa does
December 30th, 2010 at 10:33 am
Well now, lookee what we have here! Yet another change to how the government measures unemployment. Gee i wonder why they’re doing that . . .
http://cryptogon.com/?p=19543#comments
December 31st, 2010 at 2:25 am
1.2 billion candy canes are sold each year.
1.1 billion are thrown out.
December 31st, 2010 at 10:18 am
70% of retail sales sales annual revenue made in december? that sounds wrong, December only would leave out day after Tday and that weekend! Even 70% of retail profits seems off, for if 70% of revenue is off, that would have to mean higher margins in December – the month of sales!