Popular culture has given us thousands of square-jawed heroes and fair maidens to love. And it’s given us equally as many characters to hate – jerks, crazies, and killers like Hannibal Lector and Annie Wilkes come to mind, but we reserve a special hate for the wealthy villains of pop culture. Here is a list [...]

Back in November, I called gold a bubble due to the fact that it’s next to useless in industrial applications, and its value is based solely on perceived value. At the time gold was trading around $1150 per ounce. I wish I had been right, but in March of last year I said the same [...]

In 1973, the Drug Enforcement Agency was created to consolidate all the drug operations going on in the United States by various law enforcement groups. The so-called “War on Drugs” was born. A noble and lofty goal by the Nixon administration, the War on Drugs has been a token footnote in every presidency since. But [...]

Back in the early days of 2008, I had one reader, me. But I wrote some good stuff back then, things I hope to start talking about again soon. One of my favorite things to do was read and review books, but I don’t have any time to read anymore. In fact, I don’t have [...]

I love science, I don’t think I talk about it enough on my Weakends so hopefully we’ll do this more in the future. I got a clicking frenzy last night and found 5 good articles, mostly through Gizmodo, a great technology blog, that I want to share with you. What Exactly Does a Kilowatt Hour [...]

Geez guys! I do ONE post about selling in May and you go and crash the market? I knew I was influential but this is ridiculous. Okay, so maybe I wasn’t the cause of this event. But what did happen yesterday? If you haven’t heard yet or don’t understand the chart, sometime after 2:30 yesterday [...]

There are dozens of different strategies investors have used to time the market. I had a finance professor in college that identified the days of each month to be in stocks or bonds. I can’t remember the exact days but it was something about selling off stocks in the last 5 days of the month [...]

Back in my days of undergrad schooling I remember studying the mathematics behind diversification. It was very interesting material for someone like me, but would be pretty dry if I tried to explain it to The Sheconomist. So instead I wrote a post explaining it closer to “plain English” than was taught in a finance [...]