Seen that? - The $ingle Dollar Industry; $1.6 Trillion Strong

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The $ingle Dollar Industry; $1.6 Trillion Strong at The Dating Weblog

ONE2ONEMAG -- Mar 26 -- Growth in non-traditional-family households will continue to drive purchasing decisions -- this is not a passing phase; it is a trend that will continue for the next several years. The impact on population growth and society will have dire consequences for brands that do not make provisions for marketing uniquely to singles. $1.6 TRILLION in annual spending 86 Million+ Americans Are Single 32.9 Million Singles Live Alone 49.8 % of the Nation's Consumer [...] Read More


One2One Report; The $ingle Dollar at The Dating Weblog

ONE2ONE LIVING -- The US has more single adults than any other nation in the world except for China and India. There are now more single head of households than there are married households with children. Married-couple households -- have fallen from nearly 80% in the 1950s to 50.7% today. Delaying of marriage and changing societal norms has resulted in a tripling of the number of unmarried men and women in their early thirties; from [...] Read More


JupiterResearch Report Predicts Dating Industry Growth at The Dating Weblog

JUPITER RESEARCH -- Feb 12 -- The U.S. online dating market continues to grow, but faces a stagnation in the number of users paying for access. A new report is out: "Online Dating in 2007: US Market Searches for New Users as European Market Challenges U.S. Dominance." U.S. dating sites are converting browsers into payers better than ever but needs to offer additional paid services, and tap into new user [...] Read More


Strong Dollar Good, Weak Dollar Bad? at The Personal Finance Weblog

I often hear or read about the US dollar being strong or weak versus other currencies, but I never really know what that means, why I should care, or how it affects me. Instead of wallowing in my ignorance, I finally went looking for answers today. Due to my overall laziness, I started and ended my research with this publication from the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago - Strong Dollar, Weak [...] Read More


The Two Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R Morris at Sox First

The book from Morris provides some interesting insights into the market's implosion.It's not that we didn't have any warning. Morris makes the point that the collateralised mortgage obligations crisis, the 1987 stock market crash and the collapse of Long Term Capital Management were a practice run for the meltdown. All reflected the shift to deregulation, the agency problem where no-one is sure that companies, their employees or their contractors are [...] Read More