Linkpile

• America’s Most Endangered Malls: Via Infrastructurist. Earlier Consumed on dead retail reuse here.
• America after consumerism?: It’s not something that’s happened. It’s something that *could* happen. “Consumerism will not just magically disappear from its central place in our culture. It needs to be supplanted by something.” TNR piece is smarter than most on this subject, though I can’t say I found the latter half all that convincing. Worth a read though if you want to get beyond the trend industry’s pronouncements.
• Taco Bell’s New Green Menu Takes No Ingredients From Nature: Onion video. Funny.
• Denny’s tries rock and roll murketing strategy: “It has added late-night menu items fashioned by well-known musicians including Rascal Flatts and Good Charlotte. On Tuesday, singer Jewel is slated to concoct a new Denny’s menu item at a New York test kitchen.”
• Placebos as performance: Interesting comparison of placebo effects, and advertising effects. (Reminds me of Veladone-Rx.)
• Debt wasn’t always the enemy: Interesting Marketplace piece defends being in hock.
• U.S. Savings Highest Mark Since 1993: Ah, the thrifty days of 1993.

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