As your read this post, the chubby gentleman picture to the right with no discernible neck is on trial for trading on insider information. This is against the law. He was a billionaire with everything to lose and little to gain. Why did he do it? First, I know some of my readers might not [...]

This is a funny joke. What happens when the federal government runs out of cash? Okay, it’s not a joke. It’s no secret that the government is waiting on a budget from Congress and the President. This would also give the government permission to start spending money again. As of right now, the temporary extension [...]

How do you pay for trash pickup? Do you pay by the month? By the year? Perhaps it’s included in the taxes you pay to the county or city you live in. Whatever it is, chances are you’re paying a flat fee of some kind. With that flat fee you pay you have no reason [...]

I normally like doing the Weakend posts because I get to talk about something interesting.  But instead there is a huge disaster going on in Japan and I think our attention is better focused there. This was a perfect storm for natural disasters.  An incredible earthquake that has now been upgraded to a 9.0.  This [...]

Sorry, got nothing this morning.  Have to go back home and had to leave in a hurry thanks to the most annoying neighbors in the world.

Oh Mary, I do not envy you.  In January of 2009, President Obama gave you one of the most important jobs in the US at the time.  It was your job to find the villains of the financial crisis. If you don’t know Mary, let me introduce you to her.  Mary Schapiro is the chair [...]

The Government Accountability Office thinks we can save $5.5 billion by dumping the $1 bill for a $1 coin. I’d bet we could save even more by dumping the penny altogether. In what has to have been the most important research of 2011 (so far), the GAO reaffirmed (for the like 4th time) that we [...]

Remember last year when I talked about the potential relationship between eating fattening foods and being dumber?  This is kind of like that, only better.  Now researchers in the Netherlands is showing we make better decisions when we have to pee. This is particularly interesting because it was previously thought that bodily urges like this [...]