Today’s blogathon theme is haiku. The problem with haiku, and poetry in general, is that it is deceptively simple. It’s easy to slap something together that fits the rhyme and scansion, harder to write something truly good. With that in mind, please be kind: Blogging on money: A tool, not a mystery. It… [Read More]
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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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
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… [Read More]
Five Movies About Money
The blogathon comes with a list of assignments, and today’s is to write about five favorite movies. I decided to twist the topic a little and list five movies about money. All of these are great fun, for different reasons (Bonfire of the Vanities, for example, is a train wreck), and they all talk about… [Read More]
