Yesterday I talked about China’s saving problem and America’s spending problem. I promised you an explanation for why the Chinese save 30% of their income. It’s quite simple really. Men do whatever they can to get the attention of women. And in China, saving is sexy baby yeah! The Chinese love to save money. They [...]

Famous economist John Meynard Keynes hated savers. Saving your money was not a good idea in his head. A good citizen would spend all their income to stimulate the economy to extreme efficiency. This is a modern, and twisted, interpretation of the good professor’s ideas on excessive saving. From a personal finance stand-point, we all [...]

Back in 2007, we all thought there might be a real estate bubble about to pop. But most of America was still stupid and buying up real estate thinking prices would go up forever. Home ownership was the American dream, and we all wanted to own our own home. Even I was looking at properties [...]

This story is actually old (relatively speaking) but I wanted the initial media buzz to die off before I started talking about it. This big story is that more wives are outearning their husbands than ever before. Considering that only 4% of women outearned their husbands in 1970, not increasing this number would have been [...]

Are you ready for some football? I’m not. As you know I am currently living in the DC area. Well DC got like 15 feet of snow last night and another 40 feet are expected today. Unfortunately I am not in DC this weekend to see all of this as it’s happening. Wherever I am, [...]

In my recent survey, I solicited feedback from you readers about including links on Fridays.  I’m not going to start doing it every Friday, but I’ll do it every once in a while.  Maybe I’ll collect good links over the course a few weeks and post them up.  For this week though, I’m just going [...]

Imagine you’re at the bar spitting game to the hottest person of your attraction. Things are going great, you’re pretty sure you’re heading to their place instead of yours tonight. At the very least you’ll get a phone number and can do some sexting. But you get the cold shoulder. You wasted money on drinks [...]

My wife is a big fan of American Idol. And I must admit that I myself like the first part of the season when all the people are trying out. And anything that inspires a post for Weakonomics can’t be half bad. Scratch that, it usually means it’s all bad. Let me tell you about [...]