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With Audrey out of town this weekend, I decided to be super lazy and watch a lot of TV. A lot. I got home at 7 tonight and just turned the tube off at 11:30pm… about 2 hours after I …
In the 1980′s the average young college educated mother spent 13 hrs per week on child care. After declining for decades, in the late 90′s and early 2000′s the amount of time invested by parents has skyrocketed. Now, the average is 22 hours per week. But does it matter? Is the extra time we are spending with our kids, chauffeuring them to and from activities, really making a huge difference?
It was bound to happen: putting politics and economics in the same post. Forgive me if you’ve already tuned out. For the three of you who are still reading, here goes.
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A great little movie talking about how to motivate and engage people in the professional work environment. Interestingly, offering more money just doesn’t equate to more productivity. Some interesting theories that resonated with me and my job.
Yesterday, the SEC filed a lawsuit against Goldman Sachs for selling collateralized debt obligations (the CDOs I referred to in my previous post) without properly informing the investors of the risks. They have emails and other communications between Goldman and …
Last week’s episode of This American Life was a super-interesting deep dive into some of the players that caused the financial meltdown. They started with the premise that the oft-repeated phrase “no one saw this coming” was unacceptable. Wall Street …
So Mrs. Brows and I spent last Saturday working on our finances, fixing our budget for this year, and trying to predict the future. In the process, we started talking about our retirement savings strategies.
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Those who really know me might know that I’m a tight wad. On the exterior, yes, I seem like a pretty cool cat when it comes to money, but deep down nothing makes me more gleefully giggle with joy than …
You know it’s gonna be a bad month when you log into Mint and see this graph for your monthly spending:
That is what a small vacation, a huge car repair, new tires, and a couple trips to wal-mart will …
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