Did I say American?  I meant Belgian, or South African, and worse – CANADIAN.  Just kidding you goofy neighbors to the north, no hard feelings eh?  What are we talking about?  Let’s say I’ve had a bad day and on the way home stop at a grocery store to pick up some ice cold beer. [...]

Yesterday, we took a gander at the highlights so far in 2008.  Today I’ll attempt to predict the future. I hate to make too many guesses.  As I’ve learned from a book I’m reading, even the best stock pickers are only right about 60% of the time.  So how right am I going to be [...]

As June came to a close, I decided to put together a timeline of the first 6 months of this year.  It includes events for this website, economic news, and random commentary.  There are a ton of links so there’s plenty for you to read today. January 14 – National average price for a gallon [...]

Real quick today. Monday’s post about Nanci Pelosi got attention from someone on the House of Representatives network, so its good to know I have a fan, or enemy, there. I know someone read it because they went to the trouble to email it to someone else on the House network. Makes me proud. We’ve [...]

The definition for Hypothesis is: A tentative assumption made in order to draw out and test its logical or empirical consequences. The definition for Theory is: A plausible or scientifically acceptable general principle or body of principles offered to explain phenomena. My definition for Hypotheory is: An assumption formulated from the presence of facts that, [...]

If I can ever give up cable one of the shows I’ll miss most is Cops.  Sure it comes on Fox once a week but other stations play multiple episodes daily; I can’t get enough of it.  Aside from the “That’s not mine, I don’t know how it got there” moments my favorite segments deal [...]

Prerequisites: Weakon 205 & Weakon 235 I’ve already established a mutual fund is essentially a company you buy shares in that invests money for you.  The mutual fund can be made up of any combination of stocks, bonds, and other investments like futures, options, real estate and so on.  The advantages of mutual funds far [...]

The college crowd is among the most active users on the web, one can only hope they find resources like this out there.  We’ve looked at how to teach personal finance to high schoolers, but how does it differ from the money management skills needed in college and beyond? My university offered a personal finance [...]