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Strategies for shifting away from Amazon

2022-10-20

There’s no shortage of reasons to consider shifting your spending away from Amazon. Wikipedia has a 17,000-word article with 423 citations on the subject! I think the downsides of Amazon are well known, but many people find switching to alternatives difficult. Even a modest shift is better than nothing!

Rather than adding to the debate about the merits of Amazon, here are some practical ways I’ve shifted some my spending away, should you decide that’s something you want to do.…

2019-01-25

Note that I later wrote an article called Are we in a bubble? Is it going to pop? that is closely tied to this one.

I was motivated to major in Economics because I wanted to understand human behavior and how the world works. Especially things that don’t make any sense.…

2011-08-15

It seems like every time I make a phone call to the customer service department of a big company, I get an email, a return phone call, or a postal mail survey asking how my customer experience was. They always say I was randomly chosen but that defies the laws of probability.…

2009-10-21

Frontline is one of PBS’s greatest gift to media. They have a great new show on derivatives and it gives a good overview of the recent economic collapse:

The Warning

In an era where all the major news organizations are either afraid to criticize a sitting administration (or even a past one) or are politically motivated rather than motivated by seeking the truth, Frontline can be a breath of fresh air.…

Plucky Tree

It’s the plucky ones that surprise you most

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Strategies for shifting away from Amazon

2022-10-20

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2019-01-25

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