<![CDATA[Jezebel: Money Honey]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Money Honey]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/money honey http://jezebel.com/tag/money honey <![CDATA[Maria Bartiromo Seems To Think "Turned On" Is A Neutral Term]]> When she says, "Journalism truly turns me on. Business and the markets turn me on," is it like when the olds innocently use "hook up"? Or is this is part of the whole "Money Honey" business? [Forbes, Image Via] More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5513781&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[It's Probably For The Best That Scrooge Ditched His Girlfriend]]> According to a study by the University of Pennsylvania, "tightwads" and "spendthrifts" often find themselves romantically attracted to one another, despite—and potentially due to— the differences in their spending habits. Sadly, these differences also eventually drive couples apart. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5338533&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Erin Burnett Teaches Us To Use Terrible World Events To Our Advantage: An Inspiring Story Of A Blogger And Her Collection Agent]]> CNBC's Money Honey 2.0 Erin Burnett is profiled in today's Washington Post. Fittingly, we read the story while waiting on hold with one of the lawyers hired by one of our loan shark creditors and pondering whether it would be worth the $20,000 signing bonus to just go to Iraq right now and post between car bombings and such. Anyway, the story elucidates why, despite being nowhere near as hot, Erin is fast displacing Maria as the world's preeminent hot chick who knows about money.
Asked on "Hardball" about the repeated recalls of Chinese-made toys, Burnett said: "If China were to revalue its currency, or China is to start making, say, toys that don't have lead in them or food that isn't poisonous, their costs of production are going to go up, and that means prices at Wal-Mart here in the United States are going to go up too."
Somehow she got ridiculed for this incendiary linking of (duh) cause with (duh) money-saving effect, but we were inspired: Erin was on TV, right before our eyes talking about the Fed and the European Central Bank and all those huge financial institutions' deep-set paranoia that all those debt-saddled consumers out there were just going to default en masse.... and we realized that, much like shoddy Chinese manufacturing standards, there just might be a silver lining in this market especially for us... More »
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