So it’s New Year’s Eve and soon people will tell you to have a happy new year.  The holiday is about new beginnings, out with the old and in with new.  A chance to make the next year better than the last. But before you start thinking about how great 2012 could be, stop and [...]

It’s called confirmation bias, and the most educated amongst us can’t help but bend to its laws. In fact, the more educated people are, the easier it is to find data that supports their claim. This is why we fight over climate control. This is why so many well-educated people in Congress can barely agree [...]

Germany builds 2 times as many cars as the United States does every year.  Considering the relative size and populations of these countries that’s pretty impressive.  But what makes it even more so is that the average German autoworker makes twice as much as the US worker.  So that’s 2 times as many cars, and [...]

Back in the 1970s some finance professors proposed an idea that has since shaped the very landscape of business. Basically, if the owner of a company also manages the company, they have all the motivation they need to maximize profits. But when a shareholder (principal) hires a manager (agent), that manager may have other things [...]

Picture it. You’re sitting at a traffic light, 15 cars are in front of you, work is 20 minutes away and you’ve got a meeting in 10. The light turns green but it seems like no one is moving. Have you ever wondered why everyone doesn’t just go at the same time? We often think [...]

Insert popular news reference, mention all winter holidays, take a shot at consumerism, and remind everyone what holidays are all about without actually telling them.  Merry Happy Something.

On the twelfth day of Christmas my true love gave to me: 12 Republicans rambling 11 Obama staffers tweeting 10 Cops pepper spraying 9 Occupiers chanting 8 Percent unemployment 7 Candidates left 6 percent up in the Dow 5 DOLLAR FEES 4 percent interest rates 3 dollar gas 2 dictators dead And the 1% making [...]

Stop right there, you will not find any of these things under your chair.  As we close this year I want to share the things about it I enjoyed the most.  This isn’t so much an endorsement as it is literally a guy using a pulpit of his own creation to call out the things [...]