Millennials spend billions on Halloween for social media fame: survey

Posted on April 22, 2022 by Ed Zwirn

New York Post Oct. 26 2019

Welcome to a boo-tiful new world.

Halloween used to be an occasion to spook your neighbors in person, with costume and candy sales driven by trick-or-treaters and/or those looking to make the scene at parties and clubs.

But even as Halloween continues to generate strong retail revenue, not only is the shopping (and influencing) migrating online, but so are the venues at which costume purchasers intend to strut their stuff — with Instagram and Snapchat taking the place of face-to-face encounters.

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Over 44 million people are affected by student loan debt

Posted on July 12, 2019 by Ed Zwirn

By Ed Zwirn

New York Post, Aug. 19,2017

Now is the time to load up your car for the hours-long drive to take your child to college — with little thought given to the loans taken out back in the spring to put them in class.

Nationwide, student loan debt affects more than 44 million borrowers, who owe about $1.3 trillion, according to a survey by LendEDU, a private firm that connects students and their families with student loans and loan refinancing. Continue reading →

Small-time investors are flooding the market as bigwigs pull out

Posted on May 28, 2019 by Ed Zwirn

By Ed Zwirn

New York Post, July 9, 2017

Small investors are piling into stocks at a frantic pace — the event that allows veteran Wall Streeters to call a top of the market.

These individual, or retail, customers invested a net of more than $1.8 billion in US equity funds during the week ending June 28, the first positive reading this indicator has seen since Nov. 4, 2015, when it weighed in at more than $2 billion, according to a report issued by EPFR Global. Continue reading →

Summer Camps Spend Billions to Make Sure Your Kids Have Fun

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Ed Zwirn

By Ed Zwirn

(Originally published in the New York Post on June 11, 2017)

This is the busy time of year for Bradley Solmsen.

As the executive director of Surprise Lake Camp, he needs to make sure that his facility, located on 460 acres in Cold Spring, NY, is ready to welcome its incoming class of 650 kids, who will begin arriving on June 29. Continue reading →