I’m sure you’ve had a personality test before.  Most of us are familiar with the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.  It’s a series of questions that seek to identify who you are.  There are hundreds of such tests, and if you ever want to know how effective one is over the other be sure to ask an [...]

Hello readers, my friend, Soo-Young, From Bullishness.com is giving away a $10.00 Amazon gift card every day on his website.  This special promotion will run until the end of November.  You can qualify by registering an account (your email will not be shared, spammed, or publicly displayed), filling out your investment profile, and posting a [...]

Reality shows are an amazing phenomenon.  Who knew you could take a bunch of talentless idiots with a desire to be on TV, put them together with a camera, and make TV magic?  Oh yeah, I guess Aaron Spelling knew that. But reality is different.  Reality shows don’t have writers, there are no “scenes”, and [...]

The economy is fueled by consumption.  We all know this.  But since you read my blog you’ve probably observed that despite a recession/slow recovery going on, every time you go out to eat or go shopping, you’re seeing plenty of people spending thousands of dollars.  Target, Bloomingdale’s, Olive Garden… whatever it is you’re seeing people [...]

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 was designed to be the ultimate stimulus.  Billions of dollars will be devoted to various projects designed to get people back to work, improve infrastructure, and… surprisingly… stir up some lending as well. Yes, I can’t believe this small part of ARRA slipped by my attention to [...]

What were you doing a year ago today?  I was at work, probably writing on sticky-notes some ideas for Weakonomics.  Check on November in the archives if you want to know what I was writing about. Looking back in time is so easy now thanks to tools like the NY Times archive.  We can see [...]

This is a guest post by Mr Credit Card from askmrcreditcard.com. Though Mr Credit Card reviews credit cards, today, he is going to bring us back in time and explore the history of money and the Federal Reserve Bank and why we should be worried about the dollar. If you are looking to apply for [...]

Retail hops on the Christmas bandwagon around about August of every year.  I start thinking about Christmas lists and stuff around Thanksgiving.  But I always get excited whenever the commercials and YouTube videos of Christmas lights set to Transiberian Orchestra music.  These haven’t really started circulating yet (though perhaps I just started it) but I [...]