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		<title>(Infographic) The Most Frugal Cities In America</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/09/infographic-the-most-frugal-cities-in-america.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:36:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Caleb Kramer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mint, the newly acquired financial startup, crunches user data to reveal which American cities cut spending the most in 2009. ]]></description>
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		<title>Infographic: Why Buy Local &amp; Ten Reasons to Shop Local First</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/infographic-why-buy-local-ten-reasons-to-shop-local-first.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/08/infographic-why-buy-local-ten-reasons-to-shop-local-first.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 14:58:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Gould</dc:creator>
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Local First, a Grand Rapids. Michigan based organization that encourages sustainable, locally-based economies has made a simple but effective illustration of how money flows if it&#8217;s spent at a locally owned business versus a non-local business.
They explain their top ten reasons to shop local first:
1. Significantly More Money Re-circulates In Greater Grand Rapids.
When you purchase at locally owned businesses rather than nationally owned, more money is kept in the community because locally-owned businesses often purchase from other local businesses, service providers and farms. Purchasing local helps grow other businesses as well as the Greater Grand Rapids tax base.
2. Non Profits [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recession Time Special: Banksy for A Penny</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/recession-time-special-banksy-for-a-penny.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/recession-time-special-banksy-for-a-penny.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 15:26:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ruby Pseudo</dc:creator>
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Since becoming increasingly commercial and globally successful, London-based street artist Banksy has decided to sell one of his sought after pieces for pennies – or rather, literally a penny. With the help of sponsors Brahma beer and Artichoke Ltd, Banksy is allowing art buyers and enthusiasts to bag a bargain in the recession. The initiative is based upon an online lottery with which you register, where you’re allotted a number to take along to a secret venue on 27th March, where a winner will be picked at random. The piece for sale, Trolleys, is currently on display at a pop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Selling Retro with Comfort Packaging</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/retro-packaging.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Larissa Hayden</dc:creator>
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As you may have noticed from our recent post about beverage rebranding, companies have a hard time selling new images to consumers. One notable exception from that article was the Throwback edition of Pepsi and Mountain Dew. Apparently, it is easier to get consumers to like things that they are familiar with as opposed to anything new and different (which they typically, eventually learn to like).
And this may be especially true during hard times, when people&#8217;s nostalgia for the good ole days carries over into the way they consume. Consumers are romanticizing the memories associated with products from better time [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The U.S. Stimulus Package: What&#8217;s Missing?</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/the-us-stimulus-package-whats-missing.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/the-us-stimulus-package-whats-missing.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 17:09:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tamara Giltsoff</dc:creator>
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I like Bruce Nussbaum&#8217;s list of what he’d like to see in The Stimulus Bill recently featured in BusinessWeek. The premise of his piece is that INNOVATION got a bit left out in the discussion and writing of the bill i.e., the process to get us to a healthy economy. Nussbaum does believe Obama has a vision for an America that is “green, urban, tech-centric and young”, but that much more than writing about a vision is needed to get us there. I agree.
The down payment on the new ‘green economy’, which includes investment in domestic and public buildings, tax [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Will We Spend Once the Economy Bounces Back?</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/how-will-we-spend-once-the-economy-bounces-back.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/how-will-we-spend-once-the-economy-bounces-back.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:44:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lachut</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Retail]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grant McCracken]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.psfk.com/?p=27652</guid>
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Anthropologist and author Grant McCracken looks at the state of our economy and asks the question &#8220;What will the current downturn mean to consumers?&#8221; He then offers up various models to explain the possible lasting impacts this trip through the recession looking glass might have on our spending habits. While the prevailing theory seems to be that once the economy bounces back, we&#8217;ll all return to our previous patterns of purchasing, what if we don&#8217;t, what will things look like then?
As we&#8217;ve written about before, the brain&#8217;s response to the decision of whether or not to buy already functions much like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pic: Our Casual Economy</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/pic-our-casual-economy.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/03/pic-our-casual-economy.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 17:18:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lachut</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work & Business]]></category>
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We saw this advertisement for a job posted on the doorway to a shop while walking through Soho on Friday and thought it appropriately summed up the current state of the economy. After all, in times like these who can be worried about a little thing like commitment from either interested party?


By Scott Lachut &#124; ©  PSFK, 2009. &#124;
Article Link &#124;
Comments &#124; More stories in: Work &#38; Business and economy, job market, Soho 


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		<title>Being a Slacker May Have its Benefits</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/being-a-slacker-may-have-its-benefits.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:46:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Gould</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance & Money]]></category>
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David Scarfenberg at The Boston Globe has written a thought provoking article that ponders the idea that &#8220;maybe the slackers had it right after all.&#8221;  He exalts the often vilified subset of society who have chosen to lead scaled back, simpler lives and sees an unexpected benefit to their slacking, in the fact that a recession won&#8217;t be affecting their lives so much.
He explains:
WE MOVED to San Francisco and Brooklyn and Mission Hill. We jumped from job to job. Put off marriage. Never bought a place. And we never heard the end of it. We were drifters, they said. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Understand the Credit Crisis in 10 Minutes</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/understand-the-credit-crisis-in-10-minutes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/understand-the-credit-crisis-in-10-minutes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 16:28:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Squires</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance & Money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We found this visualization of the current credit crisis remarkably informative.  The ten minute long video does a really great job breaking down all the different players and provides a general overview of how investment banking works.  By the end of it, terms like sub-prime mortgages, collateralized debt obligations, frozen credit markers, and credit default swaps actually make sense.
The video was created by Jonathon Jarvis as part of his thesis work in the Media Design Program at the Art Center College of Design.



By Jeff Squires &#124; ©  PSFK, 2009. &#124;
Article Link &#124;
Comments  &#124; More stories in: Finance &#38; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Report from Middle America: Economy Tanks, Strip Clubs Boom in Nashville</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/report-from-middle-america-economy-tanks-strip-clubs-boom-in-nashville.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/report-from-middle-america-economy-tanks-strip-clubs-boom-in-nashville.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:17:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christine Huang</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entertainment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We reported earlier this year about the increase in sex toy sales as the economy took a dive. And we&#8217;re finding that in Nashville, Tennessee, the same goes for live libidinous entertainment: Jason Helson, manager of popular strip club Déjà Vu, says business has actually improved with the economic downturn. The venue, which advertises &#8220;hundreds of beautiful girls and three ugly ones&#8221;, has witnessed a boom while most other businesses have suffered. Helson says: &#8220;Times are tough, but with any type of vice, people will always find a reason or a why or a how to do it&#8230; And everybody [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Not Immune to the Economy, Trimming Down</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/google-trims-down.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:29:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicko Margolies</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many, Google epitomizes the successful modern company, but like nearly every sector in the economy, they are being forced to slim down under the rippling effects of the recession.  The first step was to reduce the recruiting organization by 100 positions and slowly ratchet down new hires.  The next step was to close down products that didn&#8217;t make economic sense for Google to hold onto.
The microblogging service Jaiku, which Google acquired for a reported $12 million, will be shutting down along with Dodgeball, the mobile social networking site.  Google Catalog Search, another service on the chopping block, will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shopping: The Pleasure/Pain Principle</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/shopping-the-pleasurepain-principle.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/shopping-the-pleasurepain-principle.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 19:59:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lachut</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent studies conducted by researchers at Stanford University and Carnegie Mellon might go a long way in explaining our spending habits or in the case of the current economic downturn, our penny-pinching ways. Apparently, during every purchase we make there is an emotional tug of war taking place in two distinct parts of our brain that determines if we&#8217;re going to spend money or not. The study involved imaging shoppers&#8217; brains while they contemplated these decisions. Jonah Lehrer, editor at large for Seed Magazine and author of &#8220;How We Decide,&#8221; explains:
They discovered that when subjects were first exposed to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congresswoman Encourages Squatting in Foreclosed Homes</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/congresswoman-encourages-homeowners-to-squat-in-foreclosed-homes.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.psfk.com/2009/02/congresswoman-encourages-homeowners-to-squat-in-foreclosed-homes.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:20:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Squires</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As the economy continues to spiral downward, a US Congresswoman from Ohio, Marcy Kaptur, is encouraging her constituents to squat in their foreclosed homes.  She is advocating that homeowners should simply stay put until the bank &#8220;produces  the note&#8221; that proves it owns the home.
Because mortgages have been divvied up so much, the banks are having a hard time finding the original paperwork &#8211; and by telling a bank to &#8220;produce the note,&#8221; a homeowner can delay foreclosure by forcing the lender to prove the suing institution is actually the same which owns the debt.



By Jeff Squires &#124; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trash And Recycling Not Recession Proof</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2009/01/trash-and-recycling-not-recession-proof.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:24:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Scott Lachut</dc:creator>
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As the economy goes, so too does our trash and as people tighten their belts and spend fewer dollars, they&#8217;re also reusing more and throwing out less.  The LA Times reports on some telling statistics in cities across California: 
Over the last six months, operators at Puente Hills Landfill [in Los Angeles], among the nation&#8217;s largest, have noted a 30% decrease in tonnage from neighboring municipalities. The dump used to close at noon because it would reach its daily tonnage limit; now it stays open all day without hitting that mark.
San Francisco is disposing of less in landfills than it has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More Designers Opting Out of Runway Shows</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 01:26:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orli Sharaby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we reported back in September, there&#8217;s suddenly a whole new world out there to fashion designers who may not have the cash or the desire to stage an expensive runway show. The pervasiveness of the web and accessibility of high quality multimedia equipment/tools have made it possible for designers to reach a much wider audience at a lower cost, both to the environment and to their bank accounts. For a while, this practice of shunning the catwalk was limited to underground, avant garde designers constrained by small budgets. But by the end of 2008, more and more mainstream fashion [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fashion&#8217;s Low Risk Strategy in 2008</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/fashions-low-risk-strategy-in-2008.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 05:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Orli Sharaby</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Eric Wilson writes an interesting piece in last week&#8217;s New York Times, &#8220;Change? It Wasn&#8217;t in Fashion&#8221; pointing out how in 2008, compared to the topsy turvy year in the American political arena, the fashion industry was decidedly more cautious (or in his words, stubborn). Marc Jacobs revived designs from earlier collaborations with Murakami and Steven Sprouse, even marketing them with tried and true imagery. Models from the 1990s are making a comeback. Trends which have been around for way too long (they are trends after all, meaning they&#8217;re supposed to shift and morph with significant timeliness) just won&#8217;t go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Good Ideas for the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.psfk.com/2008/12/video-good-ideas-for-the-future.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 22:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jeff Squires</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Concluding our series of Good Idea Salons, last night&#8217;s panel spoke about good ideas for the future.  A daunting topic, the conversation covered everything from whether or not business fundamentally has the ability to find a balance between being &#8216;good&#8217; and turning a profit to greenwashing and the environment to the possibility that the current economic crisis might actually be a good thing.
Moderated by Piers Fawkes (PSFK), the panel includes Bart Haney (fuseproject), Danielle Sacks (Fast Company), Polly LaBarre (Mavericks at Work), and Tamara Giltsoff (OZOlab).

WATCH COMPLETE SERIES:
Good Ideas In Mobile - Featuring Allison Mooney (PSFK/Mobile Behavior), Kevin Slavin (area/code), [...]]]></description>
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