If you haven’t heard about Spokeo yet then listen up. My wife has turned me on to protecting my privacy online through websites like Facebook that literally will sell your personal information for a profit. Websites like Spokeo aggregate all the personal information about you in one place. It makes it really easy for someone [...]

AKA the “Our Industries Left” state Welcome to North Carolina, home to beautiful coastline, rolling mountains, great people, dying industries, two sources of the financial crisis, and the 10th highest unemployment rate as of March of 2010. North Carolina is a mixed bag of strong growth 21st century industries that’s being held back by the [...]

Quick quiz, would you rather be insolvent or illiquid? If you said illiquid it’s because you’ve heard “liquidity” in the media often and have a bias towards what you know, but insolvent is much less common and a lot people don’t really know what it means. Liquidity and solvency are terms to describe a firm’s [...]

I’m a free market kind of guy. I like the idea of allowing demand to set prices. To a certain extent I feel that if a customer gets screwed its their fault for not being better educated on their decision making processes. But every once in a while someone slips through the market norms, too [...]

President George W Bush will probably be remembered as the 9/11 president. For good or bad, that will mark his moment in time, as well as the policy decisions that were made as a result of 9/11. What will largely be ignored, is the massive spending glut he created. He cut our taxes and increased [...]

I love catching up with my mom. She’s very interested in the topics I write about on the blog, but she also does a really good job of letting me know where the gaps are in what I talk about and what you may be understanding. I have the same problem when my bond-trader friend [...]

My friend over at Economists Do It With Models came out with some awesome new gear for her site.  I really want to get some of that stuff, and I will in good time.  But it also made me jealous because I don’t have my own logos and therefore can’t make any gear of my [...]

Employment is a name that gets through around a lot in the media. We care about the unemployment rate, play with graphs showing how this is a “blue-collar recession,” and hope to our 1st amendment gods that we don’t become part of the statistic. But other than a rate that pops up on headlines every [...]