A fairly advanced topic for the College of Weakonomics, hedge funds are shrouded in mystery. Much of this is thanks to a lack of regulation which leads to a lack of transparency, which leads to most people not really understanding what hedge funds are. For all intents and purposes, the best way to describe a [...]

“I’m Debt Free!!!!!!!” Listeners of the Dave Ramsey Show know that exclamation well. People that have successfully paid off loads of debt can call in and scream it on the radio. It’s a celebration of hard work and an important threshold in any process towards financial security. But many years ago I heard some stand-up [...]

We don’t look back at history as often as we should. As an amateur student of history, with a focus on finance and economics, I want to start looking back at what was important to us a year ago. In many cases, what we thought was important no longer matters. Hopefully, in my weeding through [...]

A quick Sunday note about one of my favorite advertisers. Clarifinancial is a life insurance website that serves as a broker between you and insurance dealers. It’s founder is a frequent commenter on this blog and others. He’s very active in the personal finance community and cares about his work. I want to tell you [...]

Cracked is a hilarious website that puts together some of the best lists known to man. I lost about 90 minutes last night just reading them when I really should have been doing work work. But whatever. Sometimes the articles include a lot of dirty words which could turn off some people. But if you [...]

Happy Friday my friends.  It’s been a long week for me which included a very fun post which is getting a lot more responses than my usual posts.  Normally I’m not pursuing comments or a real discussion on this blog because that’s not the purpose of Weakonomics.  I’d rather you be informed and take the [...]

I was once very Libertarian in political and economic thought. I’d still more closely associate myself with them than anyone else, bet have developed certain liberal tendencies lately in terms of economic philosophy. I’d call myself a left-leaning libertarian if I had to be branded, but the connotations of such a brand don’t accurately paint [...]

Warning, there are dirty words in this post and the first link in this post.  They are quotes from commenters, not The Weakonomist. I must apologize in advance for this post. It’s not typical of me to directly reply to comments in such a way, however it isn’t the first time. I’ll start this with [...]