It’s always fun to look at the lists of the world’s richest people, and Forbes is well aware of this.  Instead of just talking about the list, the teacher in me decided to make it someone educational.  So check out the different categories of what you can learn from the list. Economy: The number of [...]

Man it feels like each week is just a mad dash, and then when I hit Saturday it’s like soft pillow that absorbs my train wreck from the week.  I love my weekends, not because I get away from work, but simply because I get to unplug from the world.  The internet sees less of [...]

I didn’t have a chance to put up some links last week because of I was pushed for time.  So this week I’m combing the best from the past two weeks.  Enjoy! Editor’s Choice: Restaurants Pwn Your Weaknesses:  My editor’s choice is going to Hank over at Own The Dollar for his post on the [...]

Sometimes I don’t have time to write a full blog about the topics I love so dearly.  But sometimes doing a simple tweet will not cover enough of what I want to say either.  So thankfully we have the mini rant. Timothy Geithner Should Be Fired When Obama first nominated Tim Geithner to be the [...]

A couple of weeks ago I received the most flattering email about my work on Weakonomics since I started about a year ago.  The gentleman that sent this message also took the opportunity to ask some questions about finance, and business as a whole.  To protect his identity, I’ve changed his name to Sam.  Sam [...]

The Great Depression isn’t called “great” simply because it was a bad economic time.  It made all economic times before it and since it seem insignificant in comparison.  Every downturn our economy has endured since the Great Depression has been called a recession, mild in comparison.  By now few dispute this is a bad recession, [...]

Weakonomics isn’t much for putting together plans to help you get your finances in order.  There are plenty of those blogs out there to help you with that.  Today I want to talk about one of those blogs. Pete is the owner of BibleMoneyMatters.com and has spent some time over the last month putting together [...]

You’ve probably seen their banners around the internet.  If you watch video online, you’ve probably see their commercials.  Today I want to talk to you about Kiva. Kiva is a non-profit organization based out of San-Francisco.  They engage in a practice called “micro-lending”.  With micro-lending you give a small amount of money to a cause [...]