Who’s in charge at your house? At my house The Sheconomist is clearly in charge. It works best that way. Partially because I’m really flexible at many decisions (paint color, where to eat dinner, how the furniture should go in a room…) and partially because if I was in charge we’d end up doing absolutely [...]

In case you missed the good news, for the first time since 2008, consumers actually increased the balances on their credit cards. The chart below shows the story of the deleveraging consumer, and now the first signs of life again. I started thinking how great this was and made a list of all the wonderful [...]

Most of my readership probably does not follow car blogs. They probably didn’t notice the car featured in Chrysler’s 2 minute ad with the new slogan “Imported from Detroit” either. Have a look The automotive media immediately picked up on the same thing I did. The Chrysler 200 sucks. It’s cheaply made and can’t compete [...]

Too many times men are blamed for thinking with their “little guy” instead of their brains. Perhaps even more frequently, we’re called out for thinking with our stomachs too. I don’t know how often blood is diverted below the belt to create bad decisions, but it would appear it’s diverted to just above the belt [...]

Did you know the Super Bowl was tomorrow? If you’re like me, you almost forgot because you don’t give a crap about either team. But like going to New York and not seeing a Broadway show, you just have to watch the Super Bowl because it’s an impressive production. If you weren’t excited about the [...]

On my mind… Wikileaks started the uprising in Tunisia, which has sparked the Egyptian protests. And now, Wikileaks is getting no media love. Spotlight whore Assange must be hating this. I’m tired of TV dramas showing scenes where everything is dandy and then the sound goes out, time slows down, and something big happens. Find [...]

There’s a common misconception out there that manufacturing has left the United States. That’s not really true since we make more today than we ever have. It’s just that the jobs left. We make more complex things today and we need less humans to make them. But there is truth that we have exported millions [...]

Last week, I wrote about how much I hate personal finance magazines for their terrible advice when it comes to mutual funds and stocks.  I hadn’t intended to revisit the topic for a few months, but then I got this comment: Hey Philip. My name is Manny Schiffres. I supervise the investing coverage for Kiplinger’s [...]