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...those disgusting plastic decorations that are beginning to disfigure suburbia and who, together, have turned an innocent night of excitement for children into something run by and for adults. Those in the Halloween industry are simply behaving as good capitalists should, following the maxim of that great economist P.T. Barnum that a sucker is born every minute, satisfying a market they have themselves created. Halloween Express, a Kentucky-based chain, now has some 70 franchised stores in 21 states. Americans will spend about $6.9 billion on Halloween this year$2 billion on candy alone, an extra $1.5 billion on costumes...
MISC | Ringling Brothers and Barnum and Bailey Circus
TRANS FAT: 1 gram SATURATED FAT: 0.5 g Nabisco Barnum's animal crackers...
...continue taking trips and watching sitcoms, realizing that with the backdrop of war, we crave celebration and entertainment—anything to get away from the news. Ticket sales to Barnum and Bailey’s Circus have sky-rocketed in recent weeks, and as the NCAA Basketball tournament heats up, millions of Americans spend their days channel-flipping to check the “score,” one of which happens to be “American casualties in Iraq.” In between news briefs—many of which already stem from...
...blow-by-blow account of the late-'90s market. The IPO for Cramer's financial e-rag, TheStreet.com, was one of the decade's cultural touchstones. Cramer's unique blend of shrewd analysis, namedropping, and unremitting egotism puts him in the great tradition of American showmen: a P.T. Barnum for the age of the day trader. A must for market mavens...