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Odd Consumer News

You can buy a cardboard house for just $35,000. Link [http://www.housesofthefuture.com.au/hof_houses04.html]. Excerpts: > Being extremely low cost and transportable, the Cardboard House could be used in a wide variety of applications. You could live in one while your permanent house is being

Internationals Slipping?

Global U.S. companies are apparently slipping in appeal, and some blame the Iraqi War. If that doesn't prompt an exit strategy, nothing will. Link [http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/12/news/fortune500/brands_ranking/index.htm?section=money_topstories] . Excerpt: > Global consumers have spoken: They&

Weekly Features Post

Tuesday evening, the middle of the week almost here. Welcome. We've been musing over libertarians' and distributists' economic differences and have patched together some notes and thoughts on the subject. We've decided to post them here, even though the people interested in this topic

GM Finds Bail Out?

If people really believe that what's good for GM is good for America, fasten your seatbelts for a lot more concessions to China: > In this obscure corner of southern China, General Motors seems to have hit on a hot new formula: $5,000 minivans that get 43

Terrorist Land Contracts

> By many interpretations, Koranic law forbids the payment or receipt of interest on the theory it creates a culture of debt slavery, which begets other evils. > But when Soliaman and Metzger moved to Canton earlier this year, they found a new way to finance their house that didn&

The Earliest Pod Cast Fans

> [I]n the course of 30 years [the Grateful Dead] managed to become the highest-grossing live band in the history of rock. > Yet in all of their years, they had only one hit ”“ 1987's “Touch of Grey,” which made it to number 9 on Billboard&

Catholic Houses

Mary Kochan at Catholic Exchange writes about Catholics and big houses. She calls for a sane attitude that favors children over consumer goods. Link [http://www.catholicexchange.com/vm/index.asp?vm_id=1&art_id=29508]. Excerpt: > So what's the plan for this generation we

eBay: Cottage Industry Redux

We like it: > eBay is fast becoming one of the largest employers in America. Of course, it hardly employs anyone, but it enables a lot of people to employ themselves and run their own businesses: 724,000 people are using it as their full- or part-time employment, up

News Flash: Wal-Mart Turns Down Expansion Opportunity!

> Officials at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark., ordered their Roanoke store to put an end to Singles Shopping, the only program of its kind at Wal-Mart's U.S. stores. > Taking a cue from Wal-Marts in Germany, the month-old program encouraged customers on

Groceries, Optometry, Hair Salons . . .

Soon: Doc in a Box, Canned Brief Legal Work, and Wally Morgue: > Wal-Mart Stores Inc. this week applied to organize a Utah industrial bank. > The retail giant already offers credit cards, money orders, money transfers and check-cashing services at its more than 3,500 stores nationwide.