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So, 600,000 jobs lost last month, huh? Well then there’s no better time for our weekly financialisticle Big Money Mondays, wherein we chronicle moments of incongruous extravagance in a world otherwise headed for the bread line. Following our long tradition of charting trends in the luxury goods markets, this week’s listicle, courtesy of mental_floss, features [...]

We here at Listicles are very much in denial of recessionomics. We don’t buy the idea that we won’t be able to buy another yacht every year, or get each of our kids a slick hybrid car for their middle school, high school and college graduations, or that there’s something fundamentally unsustainable about blowing $1,830 [...]

As we enter a frugal era of more sober spending in 2009, we can look back on 2008 as the year that decadence died. So in the year’s final installment of our weekly financial listicle, Big Money Mondays, we look at a list from the wise financiers at the New York Daily News of the [...]