Amazon and eBay thrive on Cyber Monday – USA TODAY

Financial Post Amazon and eBay thrive on Cyber MondayUSA TODAYBefore freaking out over the crummy numbers from Black Friday store sales, take a look at the much more positive preliminary numbers from holiday sales over the Internet. For that matter, a closer look at the overall sales numbers, online and …

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Food stamps and turkey tales – Bangor Daily News

Food stamps and turkey talesBangor Daily NewsIf you peruse the news on any given day, the farm bill/food stamp debate produces two general impressions: Republicans are heartless turkey thieves; Democrats are spendthrift welfare caterers. If only neither were a little bit right. As with tabloid …and more » More: continued here

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Can Amazon and EBay Learn From Alibaba? – Bloomberg

Can Amazon and EBay Learn From Alibaba?BloombergDec. 3 (Bloomberg) –- Shaun Rein, managing director at China Market Research Group, discusses what Chinese consumers buy online and compares Alibaba to Amazon and EBay. He speaks with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television's “Bloomberg West. More: continued here

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Should You Be Able to Buy Junk Food With Food Stamps?

Take this question: Should you be able to use food stamps to buy things like Coke and Snickers? For most taxpayers who don’t receive food stamps, the reflexive answer is probably no. But as a recent Bloomberg article points out, the whole debate is creating strange bedfellows. Think: The soda and …

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