If you’re not excited about World Cup Soccer yet, let Nike and Adidas get you excited. You tell me which is better. I’m partial to Adidas for reasons obvious when you watch it, but Nike is good too. Nike Adidas If you haven’t caught on yet, it’s World Cup time again. Once every 4 years [...]

I usually don’t talk about credit cards on the blog because they’re boring and there are plenty of websites and blogs that do cover such things. But when credit cards and bad marketing cross my path, we then have some Weakonomics material. I’ve made it clear before that I am a Chase Freedom credit card [...]

It’s 10 minutes short, depending on how you perceive time. It explains all the problems of the world. Via Freakonomics

Apparently, there was some kind of explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, and oil has been leaking in the gulf ever since. It’s been over 50 days and now oil seems to be everywhere there now. It’s a tragedy and an absolute disaster. My heart goes out to the people that lost their lives, and [...]

Sitting on my high horse it’s easy to make quick judgments about how the poor end up poor. We learned yesterday that anyone in any income class is most likely to stay in that income class (as opposed to moving up or down). So they poor start out poor and end up poor, but why? [...]

This is a great video if you’re interested in how much better off we are today than we were 200 years ago. And how much better off we are than the rest of the world. If for nothing else watch it for the great animations.

This is my favorite topic I’ve studied in the last few months. I’m still learning about it, but I’ve learned enough to make it into a College of Weakonomics post. What is economic mobility? Economic mobility is something we all strive for without really knowing what it is. Economic mobility is the ability of someone [...]

I used to give a lot more financial tips on here but frankly I find them boring to read myself. I do however like to bring it up whenever I do something I’m proud of. I’ve been in the DC area for a while now and the time had come to renegotiate my painfully expensive [...]