Just tidbits about money and finance.
From the category archives:
Great article in Salon.com about hipster kids living off of food stamps and eating well.
Apparently, there was some backlash too.
Best line?
By the way, a whole rabbit at Lexington Market is $10, feeds at least four people, and is healthier than factory-farmed chicken (around $6 for a whole one at the same market).
People assume that things [...]
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I really wish you weren’t getting rid of Pontiac. You see, I was dreaming about cars the other day, and I am sold on getting a Pontiac Solstice as my next car.
This is a big deal because I’m driving a Nissan right now and for the longest time, my top three cars were the Mazda [...]
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I have been thinking about this for a while, but I use my phone service with DSL to update my Quicken regularly. And I was mistrustful of 911 services over a cellphone and whether or not it really worked since I have an out of state cellphone number. (There’s this whole thing I learned with [...]
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I love my fellow blogpal, Ted of Rocket Jones. He left me this comment the other day. (Congratulate him too on his new granddaughter. She’s very sweet.)
What in the world makes you think that was free? The company paid for it, and the money they spent on it isn’t available for other purposes, like bonuses, [...]
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I actually have two cousins that moved to DC this year. The other one is from the other side of my family. She’s about 10 years younger than I am and used to work in Korea for Lehman Brothers. During her last year in Korea, she worked for Merrill Lynch.
While we were having dinner, she [...]
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Have you ever heard this phrase before? If you have, it was probably in Economics 101 at school. I heard it over and over again in Macroeconomics 101 my freshman year of college and frankly, it grew tiresome.
However, the other concept I learned that year which I really like, is Utility. What is the utility [...]
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Kiplinger’s has a fantastic, concise summary of the events surrounding the financial crisis and what might happen in the future.
I have to agree with the last point. Don’t lose hope. I’m a horrible pessimist and extremely negative about most things in life, but truly I think the markets will recover. Just keep on doing regular [...]
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I applied for a job there once. To give it a whirl, I tried out Second Life. I wanted to like it. But in truth, I can’t stand it. I just don’t see the point of it. I like hanging out in one specific online game and it has avatars and stuff, but really, I [...]
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No man is an island – John Donne
The Washington Post had an article this week about suburbia being a soulless place. [The link my require registration. Try Bugmenot.com for a login or register yourself.]
I kind of laughed at the people in the article. I hate the suburbs as created in planned communities around Fairfax and [...]
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Occaisionally I read really geeky sites like Slashdot, Boing Boing, and Kuro5hin. Recently I found a Slashdotted (you’ve arrived when you’ve become a *verb*) article about the rising price of corn and biofuel production. It’s kind of alarming.
I’m very interested in Terror-Free Oil and greater oil independence for our country. NPR had a story on [...]
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