WALL-E's anti-consumer, anti-corporate message is undermined by the regrettable array of cheap, mass-produced WALL-E tchotchkes destined for the garbage heap.
Charles Shaw | Posted 06.06.2008 | Living
Consumption without need is the hallmark of addiction. The pattern of out-of-control consumption in the United States is not qualitatively different from the well-known patterns of behavior of substance abusers.
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business
A social network? Us? Could that be? Every day we have as serious a discussion of current business-related events as the facts warrant!
AP | MARTIN CRUTSINGER | Posted 03.13.2008 | Business
WASHINGTON — Oil hit a record high, the dollar sank again, and consumers stopped buying pretty much everything. Stocks kept gyrating, too, on T...
Wood Turner | Posted 02.22.2008 | Business
Should consumers buy a green product when faced with other less green choices? Sure, but not before asking themselves, first, whether they need the product at all.
Andrea Learned | Posted 02.06.2008 | Business
The average person has seen how he or she can demand more from brands, and become more a part of that conversation, and that is now influencing their perspective on their work situations.
Deborah Siegel and Jacki Zehner | Posted 01.18.2008 | Business
Help America spend our way out of a problem created by too much spending? Only in America.
Hale "Bonddad" Stewart | Posted 12.30.2007 | Business
There are a ton of homes on the market. As this number increases, expect more downward pressure on home prices.
Andrea Learned | Posted 12.21.2007 | Business
In order to stay one step ahead of today's consumers, a brand's management team must be able to connect seemingly disparate dots from politics to psychology to art, and everything in between.
Philip Slater | Posted 11.28.2007 | Business
If the American consumer did a cost-benefit analysis on every purchase before it was made, 90% of it would stay in the store.
Peter Clothier | Posted 11.27.2007 | Living
Today's collectors consume art with insatiable and competitive greed. They can't wait to write their seven-figure checks for those the art market has blessed.
Benjamin R. Barber | Posted 11.26.2007 | Business
America's retail industry, now indistinguishable from its marketing industry, sees in every blank space a billboard, in every suburban meadow, a mall, in every screen a banner ad.
Barry Yourgrau | Posted 11.23.2007 | Home
Two goblins decide to go shopping in the big city. Everybody loves to shop, why not them?
Peter Smith | Posted 11.18.2007 | Business
Every day from here to Christmas, experts will extract some giant rectal thermometer from the sphincter of the economy, read the retail sales numbers, and announce them to a hovering Wall Street.
Stephen Rose | Posted 10.16.2007 | Business
Are there some people who have been crushed by their debt? Sure. But the key question is how many.
Julia Mandle | Posted 10.12.2007 | Entertainment
My new performance-installation is a portrait of us, right now. It is about our citizens' lost participation in American democracy.
Simon Maxwell Apter | Posted 09.13.2007 | Living
I simply can't calculate the added value of body spray. But it does strike me, though, that virtually every great American product seeks to sublime to aerosol status at some point in its career.
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Kerry Trueman | Posted 07.04.2008 | Green