Merely hours after Thanksgiving, crowds of turkey-stuffed shoppers head to their favorite retailers to get best-of-year holiday savings. This has been a long standing tradition for American shoppers, but how did it really get its start?
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As hard as it may be to believe, we are approaching the 10-year milestone of the start of the Great Recession, which the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) dates as beginning in December 2007 and ending in June 2009. Widely recognized as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression on both a national and global scale, the recession contributed to the loss of approximately 8.7 million jobs and a contraction of 5.1% of GDP in the U.S. between February 2008 and 2010. (U.S. Department of Labor). U...
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Across the country, people will gather for Veterans Day events to celebrate the millions of men and women who have served in the United States military. Originally coined as “Armistice Day”, the date November 11th was symbolically “intended to observe the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, which marked the armistice of World War I," Congress declared Armistice Daya legal holiday nearly 20 years later. In 1954 the name was changed to Veterans Day, following a national campaign to have the day honor all...
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