AKA the “Heart of America” state Our tour of the nation’s economy continues with Kentucky. Kentucky was formed after the American Revolution when its residents separated from Virginia (West Virginia would do the same, but much later). From that time on Kentucky was very much like many other southern states, especially the likes of Virginia, [...]

I love the Food Network. And I hope the Food Network finds Foodnetworkhumor.com to be as funny as I do. Just like I love Star Wars, I love it when someone makes fun of it too. Food Network Humor is a blog that seems to have a (secret) love (public) hate for the Food Network. [...]

There’s been a lot of talk lately about the debt ceiling. It was my intention to write a post about it, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet (I will before the vote). The worry is that if we don’t raise the debt ceiling, the government will default on its debt. That is completely [...]

I used to love personal finance magazines. But I learned the mixture of real personal finance advice and terrible investment advice made for irresponsible and misguided content I could no longer respect. Like many of you, one of the ways I started learning about personal finance was from the personal finance magazines. I had a [...]

Last night, President Obama gave his State of the Union address. It’s the annual speech required by the Constitution and gives the President the opportunity to update Congress and the American people about how the country is doing and to set legislative agenda for the coming year. For the media, it’s like the Super Bowl. [...]

We see it all the time, individuals and companies pay millions to settle cases. We all take this is some kind of liability, but the legal settlement absolves them from such guilt. So why pay millions if you are innocent? Toyota just did it, so did St Jude Medical (not the hospital), and even Michael [...]

Through the wake of the subprime meltdown, followed by the financial crisis, and eventually a recession, we all learned about how devastating adjustable rate mortgages are. But some are arguing that the riskiest mortgage is the trusty old 30 year fixed rate. Crazy, or true? The entire article linked above is based on the simple [...]

Have you started to pay attention to the advertising on websites? They’re getting goooooooood. I didn’t normally pay attention to ads on the internet, but since I carry ads on Weakonomics I’ve started to pay closer attention to what’s being target towards me. The ads I notice most are commercials before videos, especially on Hulu. [...]