The great thing about economics is you can be right one week, and right the next week, making you a hypocrite to who you were last week. Case in point: last week I thought that jobs would return when banks increase their willingness to loan and businesses increase their desire to borrow. This week I [...]

South Africa was awarded the honor of hosting the 2010 World Cup six years ago and since the announcement was made South Africans have been working industriously to get ready. Important injections to the infrastructure of the country have seen world-class stadiums being built, promotion of the country’s beauty and culture to encourage tourism and [...]

FIFA is the organization responsible for expertly spreading World Cup fever around the world every four years, and they take their football very seriously. To the Fèdèration Internationale de Football Association football is much more than a game and FIFA has 208 member associations all striving for the constant improvement of the game. FIFA believes [...]

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a series of posts, and it will remain a while still because someone else has done a series for me.  I regularly have people reach out to me wanting to do guest posts, but I only let in a few because most people have terrible ideas. But [...]

There’s something wrong with this picture. I suggest you click on it to make it bigger.  I want you to study it closely for a few minutes and take note of anything you might find wrong with it.  No we aren’t looking for missing moles or Waldo, I mean something about the advertisement that is [...]

I’ve spent the last week traveling all over New-York, from the city to the Great Lakes. I have to say, most of NY is not unlike my beloved south, which I found to be very cool (though actually hot). In preparation for my travels, I started to realize there are a few things that you [...]

The following is a guest post written by David from Lender411.com. Lender411 lets you compare mortgage rates and provides information on loan products from reverse mortgages to commercial loans. If you’re like most of us, you probably pay to live somewhere. You either rent a place and pay by the month, or you “own” a [...]

Maybe. Do you remember back in 2008 when everyone was talking about giving the banks money to lend to people and businesses?  Well that never happened because it turned into TARP and Congress forgot to tell the banks what to use the money for.  But, if they had, we might have had a different recession [...]