Today is International Women’s Day.  In some countries this is an official holiday.  For example, in Russia the men go out and get flowers for all the women in their lives.  I’d never heard of this day but I have no problem celebrating the political, scientific, and economic contributions of women; and just women in [...]

Did you know that it is 2011 and women earn only $0.80 for every $1 a man pulls down? What kind of chauvinistic 21st century society are we living in? To quote Jessie from Saved by the Bell, “Men are pigs.” Maybe not. While this is true, men may not be the pigs we expect. [...]

Seriously, WTF.  Who cares.  Stop talking about him.  I’m glad the show was canceled, it means the end of the era of laugh track sitcoms.  I hate laugh tracks.  Let the dude blow himself up.  Why does anyone give a crap?  Oh yeah, people make lots of money talking about it.

The following is a guest post from Jason Holmes, a regular writer with Debt Consolidation Care and is also a contributory writer with other financial sites. His expertise is woven around various aspects of the debt industry and with his e-books he tries to impart to people the different situations and simple solutions to get [...]

I don’t do these as frequently as I’d like, but here’s some really good reading for today. Do Mysterious Forces Dictate Our Travel Patterns? (Freakonomics via Google Cache): New research shows it doesn’t matter how we travel, we spend the same percentage of our time traveling. This makes sense and I’d bet it doesn’t matter [...]

Click here for a longer explanation of the problem with pensions. Pension providers are on the way out because it’s difficult to estimate how much people will need in retirement and the accounting of pensions is even worse.  There are a number of ways to calculate the pension obligations, and no one seems to agree [...]

For a shorter version of this post see here. Pensions are a crazy bastard problem. I would submit that they’re being phased out because they are so damn complicated, no one can really explain exactly how they work. They’re simple in concept though. Employer (and maybe employee) make contributions over the course of the employee’s [...]

I’ve been reading some of Warren Buffett’s letters from the past few years to his shareholders. They’re more entertaining than I had thought, but they also include some jargon that haven’t really been shared with the public. And that’s a shame because the public can really understand some of these things. The financial crisis and [...]