Often times in the media you hear of presidential approval ratings, Congressional approval ratings, the state of the economy, or many other questions that are polled amongst the American people. Just about any media outlet, from Fox News to Newsweek conducts some kind of polling to gauge how people feel about a lot of stuff. [...]

Christine Largade has (as expected) been awarded the position as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).  She is currently the equivalent of the Secretary of the Treasury for France.  She’s very prominent within economics and world affairs and as I said she was the favorite to take over the IMF after the previous [...]

According to polls of people like me and you, we prefer boys to girls.  And we always have.  If you are to believe a series of Gallup polls that date back all the way to the 1940s.  The simple question was asked, if you could only have one kid, would you want a boy or [...]

You’re probably on top of your game when it comes to personal finance.  You know all the basics and either have a cash hoard for rainy days or are working on one.  Most people, and businesses for that matter, do too.  So do governments, except one.  That’s the federal government which (excluding current battles) can [...]

Car maintenance is a pain for most people, myself included.  It is a pain because much like the process of going to the doctor, you are really in the hands of the specialist.  Unlike the doctor though, your car isn’t very good at telling you what’s wrong or what’s needed.  It is a guessing game [...]

You’ve no doubt heard of video game addiction.  If you’ve never spent hours and hours playing Halo or Call of Duty or even Farmville then you probably don’t understand where the addiction comes from. As someone who has played and continues to play video games casually, I can tell you exactly what’s going on.  It’s [...]

If you live in Washington state or South Carolina you’re probably very familiar with the issues going on with Boeing, the defense contractor and maker of half the planes you’ll ever fly on.  But outside business and economic circles, the Boeing debacle is largely unheard of. I’ll give you the short version.  Boeing is based [...]

One of my favorite accounts on Twitter to follow is NudgeBlog, it’s the account for the people that wrote the Nudge book and unsurprisingly there is a blog as well.  Yesterday I saw a tweet from them saying the following: These #NFLlockout talks just demonstrate the need for a commitment device I thought that is [...]