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Great story from the Consumerist about a New England Mom who feeds an entire family of children, dogs, and birds for less than $10 a week.

FYI, she does not accomplish this feat by slowly feeding the bird to the dog while slowly feeding the dog to the children. Apparently, Kathy Spencer is a coupon savant, and has fine tuned the art of discount shopping into something more akin to Subversive Promotional Manipulation.

This is a worthwhile skill set to have.

This is cross-posted from my blog, but I think it’s relevant since Russ has recently been egging on my naysaying. For the “wispy, ethereal” Mepper, I believe you’ll find a lot of hard numbers in here.

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Spent the day traveling on Richard Branson’s innovative airline. Virgin is a magical land of travel where the plane resembles a disco dance boutique more than a cattle car.

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Since Mepper Storey is moving cross-country and too busy to play Chicken Little, I thought the front page could do with a little doomsaying. This forecast is courtesy of unexceptional market predictor, Robert Prechter.

More, by Mark Osborne, is regarded as one of the best short films ever created. Set in a dreary world where workers slave away creating happiness widgets for a voracious consumer culture, it could be a commentary on modern economics, anti-depressant culture, or the digital revolution.

While this piece won an Academy Award a decade ago, and is hardly new news, it was recently released in a larger IMAX format, which is enough excuse to watch it again…

Cute lecture by Ian Bogost of Persuasive Games about his five year old’s struggle to balance his virtual finances.

Former BBC Commentator and financial analyst, Max Keiser, takes Goldman to the woodshed in this Crossfire-style show…

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This week, Mets apologist and former Dykstra fanatic, Jon Stewart, recapped the gutty, gritty, former outfielder’s fall from grace. Not only is this once revered player an admitted steroid user, he is now known as a financial scam-artist after trying to pass himself off as an investment guru.

The only thing left is to try for the infamy hat trick, with a cameo appearance on To Catch a Predator.

Fun little tutorial on the progress of the TARP program by NPR’s Marketplace Senior Editor, Paddy Hirsch.