Word: thrifts
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...income of pre-industrial England," he writes. Clark proposes a wildly contentious explanation for this disparity. By studying wills from England circa 1800, he finds that rich families tended to reproduce far more abundantly than poor ones. As the affluent outbred the poor, bourgeois values like thrift and literacy apparently diffused through English society from the top down, eventually jump-starting the Industrial Revolution, and allowing, for the first time in history, economic growth to outpace population growth. England's exploding prosperity, then, depended on the cultural, and perhaps even biological, transmission of those values. "The triumph of capitalism...
Next are the mortgage lenders that belong to the same corporate family as a bank or a thrift. They're subject to oversight by either the Federal Reserve Board or the Office of Thrift Supervision but not to regular supervision. In this category are HSBC Finance and CitiFinancial, among others...
...things in this world I absolutely love.” Provost has a love-hate relationship with the market economy. Seated in the Dunster House courtyard, she dons a detectably African top ($1), snacks on fresh plump strawberries ($5), and shows off her hot-off-the-shelves purchase, a thrift-store turquoise dress with a brown stain to boot ($6 or $7, she estimates). “I am a hypocrite,” she says, adding that she’s tried dumpster-diving and sewing her own clothes. “To right now divorce myself entirely from...
...stores are planned for this year. Crossroads Trading Co., based in Berkeley, Calif., rang up $20 million in sales last year at its 22 stores and also plans to add three stores. The number of resale shops is growing 5% annually, according to the National Association of Resale and Thrift Shops. There are no national estimates of the size of the used-clothing industry, since most of the country's 20,000 resale shops are individually owned and many other sellers operate online. But Goodwill Industries, one of the largest players, sold $1.8 billion worth of donated goods--much...
...boys’ (read: final) clubs. For others, it’s a sign of spring and of garden parties. For me, it represents neither and that’s probably why I like it. I bought my first and only seersucker blazer in Canada at a thrift shop on summer break after freshman year. It was in mint condition, the right size, and the perfect price ($10). Canada is an odd locale for seersucker suits, and even after attending high school there, I have yet to see any of it worn on the shores of British Columbia. Thus...