You’re on the lawn of a 2,200 square foot house.  You’re sipping cold water from those tiny 8 oz bottles your Realtor gave you at the beginning of your venture.  You look at your spouse and smile, this is home.  ”I’ll take it!” you say with pride.  Your spouse shoves their elbow in your side […]

Every 4 years the media tells us which Summer Olympics athlete we should fall in love with.  This year, as in 2004, we are to fall in love with Michael Phelps.  This is fine by me, as I was a swimmer myself at one point.  In high school I was a Varsity swimmer, and was […]

As promised, and I know you’ve been ancy all week, here is a short list of books I want to read.  You won’t really find personal finance books on Weakonomics simply because there is too much redundancy.  If you don’t understand the basics of investing by now its because you haven’t tried to learn.  Read […]

Another book with a really long title: The Tycoons: How Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the American Supereconomy .  That sure is a lot to live up to, and this book doesn’t quite get there.  Its less of a short biography of each man and more a history […]

 And you should be since the average debt is in the thousands.  CreditCards.com commissioned a study from GfK Custom Research North America to find out what are the safe conversation topics with strangers.  What did they find?  You’d rather talk about your salary, political and religious views, love handles, health problems, and even your sex […]

Smartmoney.com thought they’d be clever and write a better post on some things your bank won’t tell you.  So maybe they didn’t copy me, probably because they’ve never heard of me.  But that’s okay.  You’ve heard of me and that’s all that matters.  Actually that’s a lie, I want more people to have heard of […]

By now you’ve heard that IndyMac Bank was taken over by the FDIC.  Its pretty much the end for the mortgage provider.  But you probably don’t know the whole story.  Stick around because this does have an “I am your father” moment.
Way back in 2007 IndyMac found themselves in the middle of a mortgage industry […]

Did I say American?  I meant Belgian, or South African, and worse - CANADIAN.  Just kidding you goofy neighbors to the north, no hard feelings eh?  What are we talking about?  Let’s say I’ve had a bad day and on the way home stop at a grocery store to pick up some ice cold beer. […]

Yesterday, we took a gander at the highlights so far in 2008.  Today I’ll attempt to predict the future.
I hate to make too many guesses.  As I’ve learned from a book I’m reading, even the best stock pickers are only right about 60% of the time.  So how right am I going to be by […]

As June came to a close, I decided to put together a timeline of the first 6 months of this year.  It includes events for this website, economic news, and random commentary.  There are a ton of links so there’s plenty for you to read today.

January 14 - National average price for a gallon of […]