I don’t like to leave loose ends untied. But I always come across articles that I want to write about, but never get around to it. These posts are the perfect way to share a bunch of articles I want to write about, but never had the time. Five Myths About The Deficit (Washington Post):  [...]

I watched a show on extreme couponing last night. It was quite fascinating to watch these people go to the store and get hundreds of dollars of stuff for pennies on the dollar. A typical “take” on the show was someone saving 90-95% on the sticker price of an item. The show featured individuals doing [...]

If you can think back to July, I wrote a post about Tesla’s IPO. Tesla is the electric car maker based in Silicon Valley and one of the public faces of the next generation of American companies. Not to mention it’s the first auto company since the 1950′s to go public. I used Tesla to [...]

The Economist ran a story about how the PhD has become increasingly useless. They have lots of statistics about how as students PhDs are overworked and underpaid and then when they graduate the jobs they expected aren’t there. Even way back in the day, my own pops had the same problem. Today he’s been a [...]

According to economists, I can already tell you the gifts you got suck. I don’t need to know what you got, I just know they suck. Why? Because you put less value on a gift than it actually cost. The easiest example to cite is the Apple iPad. While at $499 (for the cheapest model) [...]

No matter your religion, today is simply a good day to be with family.  Merry Christmas if you do that, happy weekend if you don’t.  See you on Monday.

Though not an official holiday, it’s definitely a day of rest and a lot of people have taken it off.  So no post.  Enjoy the older posts or check out the blogroll in the sidebar.

I’m not a marketing guy.  But I know enough about it to understand the nature and goals of specific campaigns or commercials.  Just about everything on this list came to me because I saw a commercial of some kind, and remembered it.  Even if I was mildly annoyed, I remembered it.  And that’s the goal [...]