Archive - August 8th, 2016
Marnie the Dog For Sure Dead Inside But What About Out
Gawker’s Senior Week is making 2016 slightly better. “Staring into those beady little eyes for long enough and one begins to wobble, tipping forward off one’s chair and towards the computer screen, towards the vast, sucking maw of the social web, the air filled with the sickly sweet scent of shareable content.” In photographs, Marnie […]
Bad News, Ladies: The ‘Pink Tax’ Starts At Birth
“These practices of charging more for pink goods—how does that speak to [a company’s] overall policies about how they treat women and men? […] Are they the same companies who inexplicably pay 79 cents for the dollar that men are paid?” Being a woman is expensive. It’s a well-reported fact that everyday products—from razors and […]
Are consumers taking on too much credit card debt?
Reading this article is the economics equivalent of standing on the train tracks watching the express come straight at you. U.S. banks are lending to customers at the fastest pace in more than 10 years. via Facebook http://ift.tt/2aHjDJT through IFTTT
