AKA The “Primary” State New Hampshire is most well know for its…. Ummmm….. hmm.  New Hampshire is the most important…. Ummm….. Can someone help me start this? Oh yeah, New Hampshire is most well known for being that state that becomes important (to the media) once every four years when presidential candidates come to town [...]

The Federal Reserve started overall US debt back in the early 1950s.  They were looking to monitor the overall growth in the amount of borrowing of businesses, governments, and households.  When you live in an economy where moderate inflation is to be expected (such as ours) then you would expect that there would be growth [...]

Niall Ferguson is not your typical economic commentator.  He’s not an economist, or journalist, or even a guy with an MBA.  He’s a historian; a historian with a largely business oriented interest and research, but a historian nonetheless. In 2008 he wrote a book called The Ascent of Money.  I read it almost as soon [...]

As great as it was for being one of the top badass personal finance bloggers (or as my mom said “jackass”), it’s also great to be honored for my Twitter feed (follow me!!!!) OnlineSchools.org compiled a list of the 100 Best Twitter Feeds for Your Financial Intelligence.  And yes, even though it may surprise you, [...]

Congress has a mandate that the FDIC must hold enough money to cover 1.15% of all deposits insured by the agency.  Yeah, just 1.15%. That means if all our money melted and we went to the FDIC for our deposits back, we’d each get just 1.15%.  That’s actually okay though because it’s probably based on [...]

Imagine for a moment that you’re a successful venture capitalist.  You’ve spent your career finding small companies worthy of investment.  You know how to spot a good company worth the money you manage.  This has been a lucrative career for you and you’re fortunate enough to retire early enough to take up a cause.  What [...]

I wish I could take credit for the words you’re about to read.  Instead they’re written by someone much smarter than me.  The link below is to a blog post not by some simpleton like myself, but a blog for Critical Review, a publication written by academics that takes a critical stance on other academics. [...]

Normally, I don’t like to talk about the day to day market performance or weekly economic indicators.  But a change in the nature of my work makes this more relevant and the people I’m surrounded with talk about it at length. And no one can agree on where we’re headed.  We always talk about the [...]