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Big Shocker – Indianapolis Lost Money on the Super Bowl
Fresh from an annals of “dog bites man”, we get the news that the 2012 Super Bowl costs Indianapolis a lot of money. Of course it cost the city money. These things always do. The organizations that put these major events on – the NFL, the International Olympic Committee – always promise that the tax [...]
Second Acts, Etc.
Today’s blogathon assignment is to write about second acts in our lives. Heck, sometimes I feel like my life is one big second act, yes? Anyway, my second act would be my career change from being a finance analyst to a financial writer. However, the story has already been told, and better, by Adrianna Rodriguez, [...]
NextAvenue.org Launches Today
Today is the launch day for a new PBS Internet project called NextAvenue, designed for people who are too young for AARP but too old for Marie Claire. It’s a big void in the market, because it’s not really a demographic that advertisers love. Hence, it’s perfect project for public television. I’m one of many [...]
Guest Post: How to Save Money with Clear Writing
By Jodi Torpey The old adage, “Time is Money” is especially true when you stop to consider the high cost of a badly written email message. An unclear email takes time for the reader to read (possibly re-read) and decipher. It also requires time to write a response asking for clarification. Then there’s the time [...]
Packing for Emerging Markets and Other Travels
Back in my financial analyst days, I logged an alarming amount of frequent flier miles. In 1997, when I was pregnant, my OB cut be off from travel in September, and I still managed to qualify for United’s Mileage Plus Premier Executive level. I’ve been thinking a lot about packing lately as I prepare to [...]
It’s Hard to Get Out There and Suck
“Nobody tells this to people who are beginners, I wish someone told me. All of us who do creative work, we get into it because we have good taste. But there is this gap. For the first couple years you make stuff, it’s just not that good. It’s trying to be good, it has potential, [...]
McKinsey Study on Women and Management
McKinsey & Company releases annual studies of women in corporate America, usually with interesting and provocative conclusions. This year’s report is out, and it’s worth a read. It’s clear that women are not advancing in the workplace as much as numbers would suggest they should, but why is that? We’ll ignore the doofuses who say [...]
Why I Still Use Cash
I don’t use a debit card. I have one that I use only at the cash station. I’m suspicious of debit cards, and I can’t fully explain why. It just seems to me that whenever the bank pushes something hard, it’s a better deal for them than for me. I also think that using cash [...]
Ten Badly Explained Topics in Finance Textbooks
Pablo Fernandez is a professor at the business school at the Universitad de Navarra, a Spanish institution. One of his area of research is how finance is taught. The idea is that students pick up concepts in class that then carry over to how they interpret finance on the job. For example, he conducts a [...]
