Welcome to a world where Storage Wars and Hoarding are well watched TV shows.  A world where candles serve as decoration, where there are 4 TVs in a house, and we can’t fit cars in garages anymore for all the crap we have.  Where did we go wrong?  I’ve got older relatives that have been [...]

Not much bandwidth is wasted on this blog cheer-leading companies. Especially companies that already have a track record of creating incredible products and generating enormous profits. Please don’t consider me an Apple fanboy. This post is being written on a Samsung/Windows machine using a Google document and by the time you’re reading this I’ll be [...]

I’ve had this mouse for almost nine years now.  I remember exactly when I got it.  At the time, optical mice were just hitting the mainstream and mine was purchased to go with my new laptop. In all that time this mouse has lived in 7 places in 4 cities.  I’ve bought two wireless mice [...]

Does this statement disturb you? In 1950, finance and insurance in the United States accounted for 2.8% of GDP, according to US Department of Commerce estimates. By 1960, that share had grown to 3.8% of GDP, and reached 6% of GDP in 1990. Today, it is 8.4% of GDP, and it is not shrinking. The [...]

Cats were always my thing growing up. But, as evidenced by the branding on my site at some point dogs entered my life. Enter: The Sheconomist too. Dogs are great, and mine is the best, and now I consider both types of furry animals to be valuable members of a stable household. One of the [...]

Yesterday Mitt Romney released his tax returns to the public and the world.  He made more than $20 million in each of the last two years.  His effective tax rate was less than 15%. There are no real surprises from any of his returns.  Mitt is likely an honest guy and all we’re really going [...]

The Super Bowl is now just a couple of weeks away. Tom Brady and Eli Manning, two of the most well-paid athletes in the game, will go at for all the glory of football. And then when that’s over much of the sporting world will focus on professional basketball. Baseball too is only a couple [...]

Books don’t get reviewed here very often but when something that crosses the insight of Freakonomics with the subject of sports, you’ve got a potential winner on your hands. The topics of the Freakonomics books have always taken some kind of conventional understanding and turned it on its head.  Whether it was the connection of [...]