I want to thank everyone for their input as I compiled the Best of 2008, your help was greatly appreciated.  Ultimately, these are Weakonomics awards so I did have the final decision.  Thanks and see you next year!
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Ah, the Monday after Christmas. You return to work and remember exactly how much the real world sucks. Though after spending so much time with family you were probably looking for the welcome distraction that is your normal life.
As I’ve talked to you before about, I occasionally do some posts for Qvisory. [...]

Ladies, gentlemen, and politicians, let me introduce you to the 2009 Toyota Venza.

The Venza is the exact reason the Big 3 of Detroit deserve nothing.  Toyota introduced the Venza to the automotive community earlier this year.  When I first saw it this summer, I thought it was a hideous and ugly thing.  That may have [...]

Come on Bernanke!  Is it still irony when it’s so absurd you never considered it?  Alanis Morissette at least had subtle irony.  I don’t expect Canada to hire George W. Bush as a foreign policy advisor.  I don’t expect Google to hire Ted Stevens as a technology advisor.  I don’t expect Barack Obama to hire [...]

Not many jobs out there are recession proof.  Some are more at risk than others.  If you work in the industry that started the recession like I do then your job security can be in even more danger.  My list below is not a recommendation for a career change, but instead a helpful reminder that [...]

I had a pretty sweet gig going on at my job. Many of my colleagues work from other locations, and the only other in-office employee was my boss. He is a great manager, and mostly stays out of my way. But over the past few months we’ve brought in a couple of new folks, and [...]

As long promised, I have finally decided which candidate to endorse.  Let’s look at the issues and then tomorrow I’ll tell you who I picked and why.  This isn’t me forcing my political views, merely an informed citizen walking you through the process of picking a candidate.  Again, I’m not forcing my views on you, [...]

Remember yesterday when I talked about Wachovia remembering my original post about them hunkering down?  Looks like they hunkered a bit too far.  To the template!
What Happened?
Amid the fallout of the WaMu failure and takeover, rumors about a Wachovia failure came to the front.  The funny thing about these failures is they’re self-fulfilling.  Over the [...]