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Feb 13, 2026 / Tyler Durden
You Can Buy Love... (But It's Never Been More Expensive)
You Can Buy Love... (But It's Never Been More Expensive)
U.S. adults will spend a record $29.1 billion on Valentine’s Day this year, according to estimates published by the National Retail Federation.
You will find more infographics at Statista">As Statista's (ironically named) Valentine Fourreau reports, this is up from last year’s $27.5 billion, with U.S. shoppers planning to spend $200 on average per person, up from $189 in 2025.
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According to the NRF, Valentine’s Day was one of the annual events that shoppers tended to splash out the most on last year....
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Feb 17, 2026 / Ryan McMaken
A Brief History of the Petite Bourgeoisie
From the Jacksonians to the Marxists, political theorists have understood that there is something unique about "small industry" between big business and propertyless workers.
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Mar 1, 2026 / Tyler Durden
Germany's Pension Time Bomb: $2+ Billion In CRE Losses Expose Cracks In The Fiat Era
Germany's Pension Time Bomb: $2+ Billion In CRE Losses Expose Cracks In The Fiat Era
Submitted by Thomas Kolbe,
A shock for the insured members of the Versorgungswerk Zahnärzte Berlin-Brandenburg (VZB). According to a report this week by Bloomberg, losses at the private pension fund total €1.1 billion. Roughly 50 percent of its invested capital has effectively been wiped out—channeled into private loans to non-listed companies, including rPlanet Earth in California, a shrimp farm in northern Germany, and, repeatedly featured on the investment menus of German pension funds, U.S. commercial real...
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