You’re in the grocery store shopping for cereal.  Your 8-year old boy is talking about how excited he is to have a bowl of Lucky Charms when he gets home.  To his disgust, your throw a bag of “Marshmallow Mateys” into the cart.  He starts crying because it’s not Lucky Charms but you tell him [...]

I recently had the honor to be featured in a list of the Top 25 Badass Personal Finance Blogs.  I’m very proud as I’d rather be featured in something like this than some other generic list.  This is because I’m more of a fringe player in the personal finance blogosphere and would never appeal to [...]

My friend at Darwin’s Finance along with a real life friend provided the inspiration for today’s post.  I’m sick of tipping. Tipping is an ancient compensation mechanism that was initially designed to award good service.  Some academics have even theorized that tips originated as a way to send the message that the server should have [...]

On September 15, 2008, Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy protection under chapter 11 of the bankruptcy code. Chapter 7 is when assets are sold off and the company is liquidated, you do chapter 11 if you hope to reorganize. Many do not. So that was over a year ago. The media was all over it [...]

I’ve always enjoyed CNN’s financial arm, CNN Money.  I’d actually wish they would drop their ridiculous HLN television channel and make a CNN Money that competes with CNBC, only without the douchebags obsessed with the Dow.  But since we don’t have that I do have their website.  Like most sites there is plenty to hate, [...]

The Group of Twenty is an organization of the roughly 20 most powerful countries on the planet.  Together, they are responsible for 80% of all world trade and two thirds of the world’s population.  They get together a couple of times a year to discuss economic issues.  The goal is global cooperation among economies and [...]

Imagine if all the world’s oil fit into a 1 pint ice cream cup.  The oil on top is easiest to get to and the oil at the bottom is the hardest.  Now, we have to extract the oil with spoons.  One spoonful per day per spoon.  We start off with one spoon and for [...]

There aren’t many things that get me excited: The Sheconomist, The Boxer, Star Wars, and chocolate pretty much cover it.  But every September something else gets me excited too: FOOTBALL! I still don’t quite understand why I like football so much, but it must come down to the excitement of every play being vital to [...]