My dad for­warded me this pic that just says it all…

A couple of excel­lent arti­cles from Business Week: 1 about how ads push your but­tons, and another about how ads are changing in the face of the new media evolving in front of us:

This Is Your Brain On Ads

Advertising: Now a Conversation

Oh the trou­bles of the rich and nar­cis­sistic….

$49,267 mort­gages
$16,000 clothes
$102,000 enter­tain­ment, gifts and vaca­tions
$4,758 dining out
$35,000 for child and spousal sup­port
$ 0savings and invest­ments (all fig­ures monthly spending)

Quick some­body tell Chris Crocker!

Most people saw this coming years ago.

At 10:59 a.m., a cheer went up on trading room floor

Is that in Canadian or American dol­lars?
“It didn’t really matter,” Mr. Feig says with a laugh. “It’s the same price either way.”