I’m going to take a little detour from the discussions of money to talk about one of my other passions: books. Yes, as you might guess from my (ideally) weekly book reviews, I enjoy reading and find it quite beneficial. I’ve yet to read a book that didn’t provide me with some benefit, from learning […]
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There aren’t that many economists who become celebrities; there’s something about the profession (or perhaps the people who gravitate to the profession) that keeps them from achieving the same level of almost certain celebrity as, say, athletes or actors. One of the exceptions to this rule is Malcolm Gladwell, who has a tendency to write
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I’ve now been working at Wal-Mart (or as a disturbing number of relatives, friends and passers-by insist on calling it, Wally World) for a little over a month. I’ve gotten the basics of the job down pretty well, and have been working hard, even if the job is far from what I expected to be
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Welcome to the first of a multi-part series where we’re going to take a look at the American school system and see if we can find ways to improve it. We’re all affected by the effectiveness of the educational system and its ability to produce well-educated, capable workers and leaders for the future. Even if
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It seems that everywhere I look, it’s not enough to be a plain old millionaire anymore. The Financial Samurai asked earlier this week if becoming a millionaire was now the rule, rather than the exception, Evan of My Journey to Millions has to argue that one million is still a pretty healthy amount of cash,
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