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28
Aug

Weakend: Merle Hazard

Posted by The Weakonomist in Saturday, August 28th 2010   Leave a reply   

A couple of years ago the business press was typing away on the concept of moral hazard.  It trickled its way down  I95 and then our elected officials in DC starting talking about it.  Moral hazard is the idea that someone can take risks without worrying about the repercussions of those risks.  They were talking [...]

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21
Aug

Weakend: OK Go Videos

Posted by The Weakonomist in Saturday, August 21st 2010   Leave a reply   

OK Go is a band that I don’t necessarily appreciate for their musical ability. I don’t hate them, but they’re never find their way onto my iPod either. But what they can do is make awesome music videos. Below are two examples, but they have more on their site.

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17
Jul

Weakend: Why My Life Isn’t On Facebook

Posted by The Weakonomist in Saturday, July 17th 2010   Leave a reply   

You’re probably on Facebook. There’s going to be a few of you that aren’t but most of you are. I actually have two accounts, one for The Weakonomist and one for the real me. I’m going to talk about me today.
There are two kinds of people on Facebook. Those that understand [...]

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12
Jul

Example of How Marketers Try To Get You

Posted by The Weakonomist in Monday, July 12th 2010   4 comments already   

There’s something wrong with this picture.
I suggest you click on it to make it bigger.  I want you to study it closely for a few minutes and take note of anything you might find wrong with it.  No we aren’t looking for missing moles or Waldo, I mean something about the advertisement that is designed [...]

under: business, media    
30
Jun

I’m A Great Blog, So Long As I Link Back To The People That Say So

Posted by The Weakonomist in Wednesday, June 30th 2010   8 comments already   

This post is going to be a bit different than most. I don’t normally rant about trivial things but sometimes someone strikes that one nerve at the right time of the right day.
Last week I got an email from someone telling me I had won an award for one of the best 30 finance [...]

under: business, media, personal    
21
Jun

The Top Twelve Things On My Mind

Posted by The Weakonomist in Monday, June 21st 2010   3 comments already   

This is basically a combination of things that are bothering me.  I would have probably written a post about them individually but instead decided to just throw them up here and move on to other topics.

I like the new iPhone plans, I’ll save money when I upgrade. But with media rich iAds coming to [...]

under: banking, business, economics, government, investing, jobs, lists, media, personal    
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    
29
May

Weakend: Dave Barry

Posted by The Weakonomist in Saturday, May 29th 2010   1 comment so far   

My wife, (The Sheconomist) discovered Dave Barry the other night. I haven’t heard her laugh so hard in a long time. The laughs are similar to the ones heard in the family car on trips in my youth because my entire family loves Dave Barry. She’s definitely earned the last name “Weakonomist”.
If [...]

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