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You Are What You Spend – New York Times “… if we compare the incomes of the top and bottom fifths, we see a ratio of 15 to 1. If we turn to consumption, the gap declines to around 4 to 1. A similar narrowing takes place throughout all levels…

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The Big Picture | Cheap Gas “$21.19 for WATER – and the buyers don’t even know the source. No wonder Evian spelled backwards is Naive. Be glad your car doesn’t run on Scope, Whiteout, Pepto Bismal or Nyquil.”

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Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner – William Morrow, 2005 It’s the little things that make the difference. Who you are when no one is looking, is who you are when all eyes are on you.

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Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis – fedgazette – Thomas J. Holmes on Wal-Mart’s location strategy – March 2006 Coming soon to a Wal-mart near you. How the Wal-borg organism has managed growth. ;)