Every July a bunch of dudes with skinny arms and thighs the size of a genetically enhanced bull get on bikes and ride around the rural flats and mountains of France. This is otherwise known as the Tour de France. Here in the United States interest in the tour can only ever be summed up [...]

This is something I usually tweet about, which I did, but that’s usually the end of it. However a follower asked me to further explain why I hate Kiplinger Personal Finance so much. My beef with them goes back to my days in college, when I would read their articles in between classes at the [...]

Happy Saturday readers!  The following is a guest post written by my good friend TIE promoting his new blog.  Normally, I don’t like to post these types of promotions however I’ve waited a while now for TIE to start a blog.  Before you ignore this post, I want you to know that (unlike me) TIE [...]

The big news of the week was this social security new ID theft risk.  The media jumped on it like kids on a greased up watermelon at the 4th of July party at the neighborhood pool.  The idea is that now the evil people can guess your social security number and your identity will get [...]

The short answer is: something the United States will never have. The long answer is quite fascinating. But in order to understand a sovereign wealth fund we must first look at government budgets. In the United States for the last few years and the next few years we are expected to run a budget deficit. [...]

Remember 2008? That was fun huh? $148 oil, $4.0 gas, and the potential for a smoking hot Vice President. Well none of that panned out and today we have $65 oil, $2.50 gas, and Caribou Barbie isn’t even governor for much longer. 2 of those 3 events have been blamed on speculators and the other [...]

AKA the “Other Carolina” State 8th to ratify the Constitution and 1st to secede, South Carolina seems to have been punished every year since the Civil War because of it. South Carolina has been especially hurt by the current recession, with an unemployment rate currently at 11.5%. But don’t count SC as a TKO just [...]

We’ve talked about economics already, it’s time to talk about one of the two main branches of economics, microeconomics. The other branch is macroeconomics. The prefix “micro” originates from the land of Zeus, Athena, and Hercules – Greece. Micro means small. Coupled with “economics” microeconomics is the study of how consumers and businesses make decisions [...]