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    • Shopper & Investor Deals  25 Nov 2009

        A look at what's likely to happen at the registers once the doors open on Friday, with Richard Hastings, Global Hunters Securities; Richard Jaffe, Stifel Nicolaus & Co. and CNBC's Jane Wells.

    • Black Friday: Bargain or Bust?  25 Nov 2009

        Whether the deals are better than what shoppers will usually see or if it is just another marketing tactic, with Hitha Prabhakar, Style File Group; Brad Wilson, BlackFriday2009.com and CNBC's Jane Wells.

    • Holiday Central  25 Nov 2009

        A discussion of the many ways retailers are preparing for Black Friday, live from K-Mart in Burbank, CA, with CNBC's Jane Wells.

    • Retailers Getting Ready for Black Friday  25 Nov 2009

        Retailers are getting ready for Black Friday, and CNBC's Jane Wells has the play by play. Stacy Janiak, of Deloitte, shares her insight.

    • Amazon vs. Wal-Mart  24 Nov 2009

        What began as a price war between Wal-Mart and Amazon over a handful of books has nos spread to a wide assortment of consumer goods. Lee Eisenberg, a noted retail expert and consumer behaviorist, and CNBC's Jane Wells discuss.

    • Prices to Be Thankful For  24 Nov 2009

        A decrease in food prices is something to be thankful for this holiday, reports CNBC's Jane Wells.

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Call Of Shame - Vote Now

I hope this week's look at the business world's lowlights will be the highlight of your day! Here is a list of nominees, followed by our choice for winner, but you can pick your own in the poll below.

#1 BILLIONAIRE TRUMPS MILLIONAIRE

Billionaire (oh realllllllly?) Donald Trump is fired up over author Timothy O'Brien's allegation that "the Donald" is only worth eight or nine figures, not ten. Trump wants a judge to let him pursue a slander suit against O'Brien, who wrote "TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald". Trump says the author didn't fully value the Trump brand, which the mogul claims fluctuates in value based, in part, on "feelings".

#2: FLING-ING SMUT

As I blogged earlier this week, Mars developed the Fling candy bar for calorie-conscious women, using the tagline "Naughty but not that Naughty". However, no one at Mars thought to check out the URL for the new product's name. Turns out Fling.com is VERY naughty…

#3 STRESSED OUT!

The big bank bruhaha goes mainstream, as Saturday Night Live spoofs the stress tests and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in a skit claiming banks also had to take a no-fail written test. Citigroup insisted on answering nearly every question, "Geithner sucks!"

#4, MAN BITES SELF!

Jimmy Kimmel disses his own employer, ABC, at the annual upfronts (apparently he's done this before). He told the crowd, "Every year we lie to you, and every year you keep coming back for more."

#5 MORE MADOFF-MANIA

Madoff victims are forced to sell luxury goods at a Florida auction to raise cash. Meantime the Wall Street Journal reports that investigators now wonder if some of the high-profile money managers - Stanley Chais, Jeffry Picower - whose clients were robbed blind in the Ponzi scheme, may not have been so blind themselves to what was going on. And Walter Noel's Fairfield Greenwich, another feeder fund, is being sued for $3.5 billion by the trustee trying to recover money for Madoff victims.

BUT THE WINNER IS…AMERICAN APPAREL!

The underwear company American Apparel and its controversial founder, Dov Charney, agree to pay Woody Allen $5 million for the unauthorized use of an image of the actor-director on a billboard. The image is of Allen dressed as an Orthodox Jew, taken from a scene in "Annie Hall" where he imagines how he appears to Annie's grandmother. HOW DOES THIS SELL UNDERWEAR?

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