Interview of my heroes: A lot of my posts feature economic data. A lot of that data comes from the St Louis Federal Reserve. This is an interview of the guys taht pull together the data and built a great tool for analyzing it. I am a HUGE fan. 60 Minutes report on toxic sugar: [...]

Why I gave up my six-figure salary and quit Bay Street: Bay Street is in Toronto and is Canada’s version of Wall Street.  You can’t expect much a difference between the two countries, but this author provides a well written explanation of his time in finance and why he, and others, left. Remove the highways, [...]

In the blogosphere there are tons of link roundups out there.  But there’s only one that irregularly and is handpicked by me.  Enjoy the best of the web from the last couple of months: Doctors die differently: This was perhaps one of the most thought-provoking articles I’ve read in the last year.  A significant portion [...]

This blog lacks the editorial patience to determine what the best posts of the year were. However, we do have enough time to pull together a big list of other publisher’s best of 2011. Many of them are lists within lists: Lifehacker Best of 2011 Main Street most popular stories of 2011 Top political scandals [...]

How Much of a $100k Salary is Taxed Around the World: You could move to Europe and pay more taxes, or go to Russia and pay less. Or, America, you can maybe not complain so much. (Economist) How the Plummeting Price of Cocaine Fueled the Nationwide Drop in Violent Crime: Need I say more? (The [...]

Good for reading while your spouse preps the food, and impressing people at the dinner table with your useless knowledge. The economics of turkey: Do turkey prices go up around Thanksgiving?  Or do they fall?  If they fall, why would they fall when everyone buys turkey at the same time?  How much turkey can you [...]

Do you remember Robert Reich? You probably don’t but he was the Secretary of Labor under Clinton and a well-known political economist. Apparently he’s got a sense of humor about his profession as here he is explaining what happens to the US if our debt continues to get downgraded. (Via Gizmodo) Here are some other [...]

Loyal readers will remember last year when I was nominated for a Plutus Award. These awards are for bloggers to be recognized for their contributions in personal finance related fields. There’s a specific section for small and part-time bloggers such as myself. Last year I won the award for best Economics blog and I’ve been [...]