As a young boy, the sound of the monotone voices almost stumbling out of the speakers of my mom’s car that was NPR seemed to make time slow down.  It was awful.  I probably would have loved the screaming pundit style debates on other stations much more, but I was only interested in how Jason [...]

AKA the “Where New-York’s Wealthiest Live” State Connecticut is a lot like New Jersey in that it sucks on the power teet of New-York City.  Only Connecticut’s addiction is worse.  This is evident in the way Connecticut’s economy and geography are so related to New-York.  To explain this we will pretend we’re walking through the [...]

AKA the “We Started As A Prison” State Originally set up as a place for Britain to dump it’s people that couldn’t pay off their debts (now there’s a plan!), the colony never really materialized in this fashion.  4th to ratify the Constitution and one of the original 7 to secede from the Union, Georgia [...]

AKA the “Pennsylvania’s Beach” State New Jersey is sandwiched between Philadelphia and New-York City, not a bad place when you’re looking for some industries to support your economy. I struggled to decide on a nickname for the state.  ”New York’s Suburb” & “New England’s Hicks” were strong contenders.  This is because of the fact your [...]

AKA the “What Are We Going To Do Now?” State Pennsylvania, #2 to sign the Constitution, was founded by William Penn.  By all accounts, he was a hippy and the son of a rich guy back in England.  King Charles II owed Penn’s pops about $30 million in today’s money and just gave the guy [...]

AKA the “Me Too” State First to ratify the Constitution, Delaware was eager to get started with the United States.  Three counties take up the entire state.  The two southern counties have remained agricultural, but 60% of the entire population lives in the northernmost county, New Castle. The two southern counties, Kent and Sussex, are [...]

Welcome to a new segment on Weakonomics (You don’t think I have too many do you?).  I call it the “Weakonomics Tour of the Country.”  You can gather what we are doing with this.  Each post will feature a different state of the nation’s fifty.  In order to establish a guideline on which state is [...]

Though The Weakonomist is impervious to economic pessimism the way Superman is to bullets, The Weakonomist does have a kryptonite.  Like Superman, I take the necessary precautions to avoid the things that bring me down.  I rarely get sick, but once a year or so I will get a cold.  I’m a drainage kind of [...]