One of the things that I love about The Complete Tightwad Gazette is how Amy Dacyczyn walks readers through her tightwad life. So let me walk you through a recent round of cooking. On a recent Thursday, I was a little too brain-dead to do actual cooking. I try to avoid ordering out, so I… [Read More]
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Money Smart Week starts tomorrow
Tomorrow is the official start of Money Smart Week, a program started by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago in 2002. This year, it runs from April 20 to 27 and includes events throughout the Chicago area at libraries, schools, and businesses. The goal is to teach people how to manage their money. We here… [Read More]
Some thoughts on advertising and the future of publishing
Back in the olden days, I covered health care services at an investment bank that was quickly developing a specialty in the Internet. The talk then was that the Internet would revolutionize advertising because of the tight targeting and tracking capabilities. Advertisers would read their ideal customers, who would click on an ad to buy… [Read More]
Iconic.
Yes, I still buy books on paper. Where else can you find Chinese authors in translation in print these days?
Income inequality in the U.S.
I spent a lot of time last week pulling up charts on income inequality in the U.S. to use in class.This chart is from the Congressional Budget Office and shows the difference in income distribution between 1979 and 2007. It doesn’t look good, and that was before the recession. The interesting thing is that there… [Read More]
