Whatever story you want to tell, you can make a chart that tells it. We see this all the time in politics, but anyone can use a chart to make a point.  Earlier this week Bruce Krasting of Business Insider used the following chart as a part of a long-winded way of saying stocks are [...]

If you live to the right of the Mississippi you’re all too aware of the storms that swept over that part of the country over the last few days.  Tornadoes took apart some towns and there were sadly some fatalities.  This isn’t too rare as Tornado Alley often gives birth to such storms with a [...]

American Idol has been a very popular show for quite a long time. The Sheconomist is a regular viewer and so I’ve seen many many episodes of the show. This week was the first time in the season in which the viewers can vote on the contestants they’d like to keep on the show. If [...]

I’d almost forgotten about how much I loathe the personal finance magazine and site Kiplingers (see here and here). Should you not be familiar with the publication, Kiplingers publishes many articles which I find to be lazy and in some cases, irresponsible. A lot of people subscribe to the site and magazine and probably think [...]

Been there. In the audience, and unfortunately, facing it… Via: Curiosity Counts

The year is coming to a close and it’s time to look at some of the ideas that were either introduced this year or killed off. These are just a few that I could think of, I really need the help of you readers to identify all the other bad ideas from the year: Rebranding [...]

The media was abuzz on Monday about this whole Congress getting to trade on insider information thing.  60 Minutes had a segment devoted to their investigation that ran on Sunday night.  It is most definitely worth a watch.  If you don’t want to watch it, here’s the skinny. Insider trading is basically investing using information [...]

Here’s why I love Penn & Teller: they are afraid of nothing.  They used to have a show on Showtime called “Bullshit!”.  They debunked all kinds of ideas and theories over 8 seasons with crude language, a little bias, a lot of facts, and tons of hilarity.  Here’s a few of the ideas they took [...]