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I read this quote from super-investor Bill Gross on Forbes' website today: "The whales of our current economic society swim mainly...

Here's an important observation I was unaware of. I'd always seen statistics showing that almost all the job creation in the count...

I was re-reading Paul Tudor Jones' interview in Jack Schwager's book "Market Wizards" and came back across this quote whic...

Whoa, I just saw a link to video from Peter Schiff on seekingalpha.com, an investing website with alot of great articles. I'm going to ...

I saw the word Confusopoly today for the first time. It's a brilliant concept and word coined by Douglas Adams of Dilbert Fame. Confuso...

A good editorial by Nick Kristof today in the Times. Not politically correct, but good. There's probably lots of ways to interpret it ...

I've recently been doing some repair work on guitars, and in the process of buying parts I've often found that I'm buying parts ...

I love articles like this that challenge the conventional wisdom. In this case the article argues that the perception that there is a short...

I saw a link to this over at the Marginal Revolution Blog. It's an interesting discussion of the government "job created" sta...

Here's an interesting piece on the behind-the-scenes costs to retailers and to you of using credit and debit cards. - @0.7% of purchase...

Nick Kristof has an interesting view reducing global poverty in today's NYTimes. Provide the people a way to save . I'm a fan of mi...

I'm probably talking out of school here - but I find the national debate on heathcare to be pathetic. We've become a nation so tied...

I read this article on seeking alpha this morning about some pretty startling and prohibitive licensing requirements for shops that want to...

Here's an interesting perspective on the cash for clunkers program. The clunkers are just piling up on dealer lots. It turns out the sa...

This article in the NYTimes was thought provoking - basically arguing that we are all in favor of rationing of health care unless we'v...

Graph of the day. Per capita health care spending vs. average life expectancy . Now you know. The U.S. tends to spend about twice as much ...

I was visiting some economics blogs I hadn't visited in a long time - I changed computers and lost alot of links - and came across a lin...

OK. I'm watching C-Span and they're interviewing a guy from the Ayn Rand Institute and he's arguing (my interpretation) about h...

I've seen the author of this op-ed piece, William Cohan, on C-Span's Booknotes TV program. He's a very interesting speaker. In...

It's not just foreclosed and abandoned homes on the rise. This article from the NYTimes highlights the growing trend in abandoned boats...