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24
Aug

20 Questions For You

Posted by The Weakonomist in Tuesday, August 24th 2010   29 comments already   

Borrowing an idea from the Macro Man blog, I want to ask you readers to be the contributor to this post. Below are 20 questions about finance, the economy, and your wallet. Number you answers in the comments, trying to keep everything to one or two words. I don’t want explanations, just [...]

under: economics, environment, government, jobs, lists, personal finance    
10
Aug

Organized Chaos: How Economics Works In The White House

Posted by The Weakonomist in Tuesday, August 10th 2010   Leave a reply   

I apologize for not having a better title, I just couldn’t come up with anything. Keith Hennessey is not a name I was familiar with until yesterday. But, from 2007 to 2009 he was the Director of the National Economic Council (NEC) under the Bush Administration. Don’t know what the direct of the NEC is? [...]

under: environment, government    
13
Jun

British View Of The Oil Spill

Posted by The Weakonomist in Sunday, June 13th 2010   2 comments already   

This quote is from an editorial by a conservative writer in the US published in the British newspaper Financial Times. Ignore all the mumbo jumbo and focus just on this paragraph, which I found very interesting:
In 1988, of course, the Piper Alpha platform, operated by Occidental Petroleum, a US company, exploded in British waters [...]

under: environment, government, media    
10
Jun

Is There Something Going On In the Gulf Of Mexico?

Posted by The Weakonomist in Thursday, June 10th 2010   1 comment so far   

Apparently, there was some kind of explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, and oil has been leaking in the gulf ever since. It’s been over 50 days and now oil seems to be everywhere there now. It’s a tragedy and an absolute disaster. My heart goes out to the people that lost [...]

under: economics, environment, government    
30
Apr

Oil Issues In The Gulf: The Real Losers

Posted by The Weakonomist in Friday, April 30th 2010   Comments Off   

Hopefully by now you’ve heard about the BP oil rig that more or less exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, killing some workers, burning, sinking into the gulf, and ended up releasing hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil into the gulf, per day. It’s a tragedy for the families of the lost workers, [...]

under: business, environment, media    
20
Jan

Book Review: SuperFreakonomics

Posted by The Weakonomist in Wednesday, January 20th 2010   4 comments already   

If you were around back when I published my review of Freakonomics, you probably know that I’m a huge fanboy of these authors. Not only that but I freely admit that the name “Weakonomics” was inspired by their play on the word “economics”.
So naturally I was stoked to learn that the authors of [...]

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31
Dec

10 Dumbest Ideas Of The Decade

Posted by The Weakonomist in Thursday, December 31st 2009   9 comments already   

The first decade of this new millennium is in the books. We started with a recession, entered two wars, experienced fake economic growth based on bad credit, and ended with a recession. The only shining light of this decade is the iPhone.
This decade was full of potential. The new millennium, the 21st [...]

under: banking, business, economics, environment, government, investing, lists    
30
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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