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Books Bought By Big Picture Readers (December 2011)

Click to enlarge: I always find it interesting to see which books TBP readers are buying. In addition to throwing off minor referral revenue, the Amazon embed code lets me track every click from these links — how many people look at the page, how many books gt collectively purchased. Its anonymous — I don’t...

Winners & Losers: 2011 Holiday Retail

> full graphic after the jump > click for ginormous graphic FastUpFront – Business Loans And Retail Merchant Financing Company.

Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs

Click to enlarge: Source: Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs Health Care Finance News, October 25, 2011

Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs

Click to enlarge: Source: Why Americans Pay So Much For Brand-Name Drugs Health Care Finance News, October 25, 2011

What Did Americans Want for Christmas This Year?

Last year, the typical US shopper spent $688.87 on gifts for others, These were the most wanted items for this Shopmas this year: > click for ginormous version ~~~ > click for ginormous version Source: Visual Economics

Logistics of the Holiday Season

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Shopping Ideas Round Up

Those of you who are still shopping — you are fast running out of time. If you order anything online today, you are unlikely to get it shipped in time (and at Best Buy — you may never get it!). For those of you still with some jingle burning holes in your pockets, have a...

What Gadgets Top Holiday Shopping Lists ?

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Last Minute Holiday Gift Ideas

Lots of good feedback for our first few lists (Holiday Shopping Ideas! and Holiday Gifts for Traders and More Holiday Shopping Ideas!). So with but 3 more shopping days til Xmas, lets give this one last go round. As part of our annual Shopmas tradition, I cull some of my more interesting fascinations, acquisitions, and...

Retail Rematch: Jeff Macke vs Barry Ritholtz

Jeff Macke admits how terribly wrong he was, offers up a humble mea culpa, a supplicates himself before me: . . . Or not~! Source: Retail Rematch: Jeff Macke vs Barry Ritholtz

Capresso 465 CoffeeTeam: $180

I was working on my next list of holiday shopping ideas when I stumbled across our favorite beauty on sale: Capresso 465 CoffeeTeam TS 10-Cup Digital Coffeemaker with Conical Burr Grinder and Thermal Carafe for $180.57. This is usually $200+, so anytime I see it go on sale its worth mentioning. Note that the its...

Holiday Gifts for Traders

Today’s list of geegaws and gadgets are geared for the Trader on your shopping list. The odds are he (statistically) is stressed out, a little worried about his industry (and possibly his job), and unfortunately, making less in 2011 than he did in 2009 or ’10. These are the items to brighten up his holiday....