From Weakonomics
February 7, 2012 at 11:23 am
As of this writing we are converging on the 6th year of this housing mess, and for almost 6 years we’ve heard people from the head of the Federal Reserve to real estate experts ... (
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February 6, 2012 at 11:43 am
That’s what the US Department of Treasury may be telling investors in the near future. What that effectively means is that the rate the US pays to borrow money would be ... (
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February 3, 2012 at 11:45 am
The following is a guest post provided by Forex Traders. Views and opinions do not necessarily represent those of Weakonomics.com
The year of 2011 may go down in history as the ... (
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January 28, 2012 at 12:16 pm
I’ve had this mouse for almost nine years now. I remember exactly when I got it. At the time, optical mice were just hitting the mainstream and mine was purchased to ... (
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January 26, 2012 at 11:34 am
Cats were always my thing growing up. But, as evidenced by the branding on my site at some point dogs entered my life. Enter: The Sheconomist too. Dogs are great, and mine ... (
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January 20, 2012 at 2:37 pm
If you’ve been wondering why people are so up in arms about SOPA and PIPA, this video does a great job of explaining it.
The plain English version is this: If these laws ... (
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From Weakonomics
January 18, 2012 at 10:31 am
Do you remember when you used go to the store and buy music? Then you’d go home, put it in your player and listen to it? Then you would own that music forever or until ... (
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January 7, 2012 at 12:52 pm
I’ve always been the kind of person that prefers to pay someone to do something for me. In the strictest sense, I like to pretend every waking moment is worth the amount ... (
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January 5, 2012 at 10:57 am
If your humble blogger had the time, he would create a database the documents all the outrageous calls people make. Pundits predicting stock market results, economists calling ... (
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January 3, 2012 at 11:19 am
What’s it like to draw all the attention, and budgets, of the national media once every four years? What’s it like to have presidential candidates raise money from all over ... (
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December 27, 2011 at 11:45 am
Picture it. You’re sitting at a traffic light, 15 cars are in front of you, work is 20 minutes away and you’ve got a meeting in 10. The light turns green but it seems like ... (
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December 19, 2011 at 11:16 am
The rural population that makes mail too expensive: The postal service is required to make shipping available to anyone anywhere in the US accessible and at the same price. ... (
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December 17, 2011 at 11:52 am
This is the actual contact page for the APWU. Even the USPS allows you to email them.
Contact APWU
Please remember that inquiries and requests for assistance must be sent in writing ... (
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December 16, 2011 at 12:01 pm
The following charts come from research by Exxon. They paint the picture of where we’re headed in terms of energy use and consumption in 2040. For the most part, things ... (
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December 15, 2011 at 11:21 am
There are some elements of finance that even I struggle with. For example, how can you draw a line from a wheat farmer in Nebraska to a bankrupt brokerage in New-York City? ... (
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December 14, 2011 at 11:41 am
Have you ever worked with a set of data for an extended period of time only to find out the data was wrong? I have. Sometimes when working in a spreadsheet I wouldn’t ... (
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December 13, 2011 at 11:10 am
Even though Occupy Wall Street has lost some of its muster, the message has been loud and clear, people are pissed off. The easiest target has been Wall Street, and it will likely ... (
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December 12, 2011 at 11:15 am
There is no shortage of examples out there of government waste. Fiscal conservatives believe that government, especially the federal government, just gets in the way. In some ... (
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December 10, 2011 at 12:45 pm
This week I read an article about an executive at Google. Google is famous for asking interesting questions in interviews, they are usually brain teasers designed to find candidates ... (
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December 9, 2011 at 10:39 am
“Call it a consumption tax, a luxury tax, or whatever. The name doesn’t matter. It’s a tax on buying more than you actually need. Taxing for the sake of taxing is ... (
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December 8, 2011 at 10:45 am
Call it a consumption tax, a luxury tax, or whatever. The name doesn’t matter. It’s a tax on buying more than you actually need. Taxing for the sake of taxing ... (
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December 7, 2011 at 11:44 am
Made up words are my thing. Just a few are Freeconomy, Egoeconomics, Hypotheory, and this blog’s namesake. My childhood, and much of my adult life, has been filled with ... (
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December 6, 2011 at 11:47 am
Local honey is one of the tastiest things in the world. Maybe I just like the flowers near my home, maybe because when I was a kid it helped with my allergies, maybe I’ve ... (
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December 5, 2011 at 11:19 am
The green bars are retail sales in every December since 1992. The red bars are the average monthly sales for the first 11 months of the year. Keep in mind the red bars include ... (
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December 1, 2011 at 11:13 am
Yesterday, a couple of financial blogs linked to a wall post on Reddit, a website that last I saw was where you go to see cool links to stuff, not where people post anonymous ... (
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