Meditations on Black Friday
From dshort.com - Advisor Perspectives
November 23, 2012 - 7:02pm
Nov 23, 2012 Doug Short As I type this, black Friday is now in its evening hours. As anyone who knows me will tell you I'm not much of a shopper. I sometimes quip that when you die you go to one of two places: Heaven or shopping. So it was with some morbid fascination that I picked up a copy of yesterday's Raleigh News & Observer. The Thanksgiving issue of this normally thin newspaper had an astonishing thickness of nearly two inches, swollen beyond recognition by the Black Friday ad inserts.More...
November 23, 2012 - 7:02pm
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