Do you like your commute?  Mine isn’t bad these days, but I’ve had some that I really don’t enjoy.  So many miles on the car, parking, idiot drivers (because everyone on the road is the worst driver ever).  And for most of my adult life I’ve had to drive many hours to get home.  I’d [...]

I’m so happy I only recognize about half of these videos, which means I had better uses of my time this year. Top 100 viral videos of 2010 in 310 seconds, with all videos listed.  Via Gawker.

I wanted to make this post a full on College of Weakonomics piece, but once written it was so boring even I feel asleep. So we’re going to do a quick history to try and clear up the misconceptions about deducting interest on your taxes in the US. I see it way too often on [...]

There’s no shortage of bad writing on the internet. Part of the problem is a lack of editors, another problem is everyone can publish now thanks to blogs and Facebook. Admittedly, these problems plague my own blog; and admittedly, my blog can be crap from time to time. And when my stuff is bad, I [...]

There are only a couple of kinds of taxes. There’s the taxes designed to collect revenue to keep a government running, and punitive taxes designed to discourage certain behaviors. Likewise there are tax incentives to encourage certain behaviors. One needs to look no further than the automobile industry to see all this in action. We [...]

This guest post written by Odysseas Papadimitriou, CEO and Founder of CardHub.com, an online marketplace for credit card offers and gift card exchange. On its surface, the Durbin Amendment—a law passed in May 2010 that gives the Federal Reserve the power to regulate debit card interchange fees—may seem merely another in a long line of [...]

Want to win a free book?  Read on.  Believe you can’t get anything for free?  Stay away! I’m very excited to be doing another giveaway on Weakonomics.  This time it’s an updated version of SuperFreakonomics, you can read my review of SuperFreakonomics Illustrated Edition to learn more about the book. There are three ways to [...]

Longtime readers of Weakonomics know that I am a huge fan of Freakonomics.  Not only have I read both books, but I regularly read their blog and they now have a podcast too (and there was that movie).  And I won’t pretend to claim Weakonomics was inspired in a dream.  The names are similar.  But [...]