Posts Tagged ‘ Consumerism ’

Debt Drought Kills Consumerism

Feb 12th, 2009 | By James Howard Kunstler | Category: Featured, Macro Economics
Venturing out each day into this land of strip malls, freeways, office parks, and McHousing pods, one can't help but be impressed at how America looks the same as it did a few years ago, while seemingly overnight we have become another country. All the old mechanisms that enabled our ...read more


Saturated Markets: Consumerism: The Problem with Saturated Markets in Western Societies

May 19th, 2005 | By Whiskey Contributor | Category: Emerging Markets
Marc Faber discusses the difficulties faced by companies in Saturated Markets, and how they make competition for customers that much fiercer. Consumerism: The Problem With Saturated Markets in Western Societies CONCERNING THE PHENOMENON of saturated markets, Richard Tomkins published recently a very interesting column in the Financial Times entitled, "Shop until you ...read more