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Dec

Review Of What Happened In 2009, Courtesy Of Dave Barry

Posted by The Weakonomist in Wednesday, December 30th 2009   1 comment so far   

Last year, I attempted to review the entire year. I offered commentary on the events, told you what was significant, and tried to add a little humor. In essence, I was trying to do what Dave Barry already does. If you don’t know who Dave Barry is, Google him, and buy all [...]

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15
Jun

When A $300,000 Parking Space Is Worth It

Posted by The Weakonomist in Monday, June 15th 2009   1 comment so far   

If you follow me on Twitter you may have seen this story last week.  The short version is that someone purchased a parking space for $300,000.  If you live in an area where you park for free or super cheap every day, you might see this as ridiculous.

The $300k parking space immediately became a prime [...]

under: cars, personal finance, weaky    
13
Jun

Subscriber Swap Saturday With No Debt Plan

Posted by The Weakonomist in Saturday, June 13th 2009   Comments Off   

Happy Saturday my friends.  I want to introduce you to a fantastic blog called No Debt Plan.  My friend Kevin runs this blog and has a been doing a great service to personal finance readers for some time called the Subscriber Swap Saturday.

No Debt Plan is about getting and staying out of debt with a [...]

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18
May

How Interdependent Is Each Car Company On Another?

Posted by The Weakonomist in Monday, May 18th 2009   7 comments already   

You may or may not know that various car companies sometimes share knowledge, parts, and people to save money.  For instance, Lotus uses Toyota engines, Hyundai’s Genesis Coupe has turbo motor shared with Mitsubishi, Nissan licenses hybrid technology from Toyota and is rumored to be working on a truck that is based on the Dodge [...]

under: business, cars    
28
Mar

Weakonomics Weekend Edition: Tesla Model S Edition

Posted by The Weakonomist in Saturday, March 28th 2009   8 comments already   

It is possible that during this past week we experienced the fundamental change in the American automotive landscape*.  Tesla, the appropriately named electric car company, announced their second production vehicle, the Model S (white on left).

Tesla was previously in the headlines for their Roadster (red on right), a beautiful 2-seater sports-car that runs on only [...]

under: cars, environment, technology, weakend    
28
Feb

Weakonomics Weekend Edition: Spreeder Edition

Posted by The Weakonomist in Saturday, February 28th 2009   3 comments already   

Good weekend my friends.  This has been quite an eventful time in the world of politics.  We’ve seen the passage of the world’s largest spending bill.  This was followed by a promise to cut the budget deficit in half in four years.  Obama then had a surprise “quasi state of the union address” in which [...]

under: cars, personal, weakend    
14
Feb

Weakonomics Weekend Edition: Valentine’s Day On the Road Edition

Posted by The Weakonomist in Saturday, February 14th 2009   Comments Off   

Happy Saturday, and Happy Valentine’s Day!  If you haven’t been following my tweets (and you should be) then you don’t know I’ve been on the road for the past few days.  By the time you read this The Sheconomist and I are actually on our way back from our little trip.  Where did we go? [...]

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27
Jan

Weakonomics Economic Review of 2008

Posted by The Weakonomist in Tuesday, January 27th 2009   1 comment so far   

Whew! What a year 2008 was. The financial industry collapsed, we elected our first black president, and we bailed out the companies that sold us those gas hogs that caused our oil to spike to $150. Despite hundreds of trillions of dollars being used to bail out the economy, we’ll likely remember [...]

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