Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Very nice infographic from the New York Times showing a visual representation of how much the average American spends on each of the 200 categories that make up the Consumer Price Index (the most common measure of inflation).
The largest component - by far - is "Owner's Equivalent Rent", ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
Since there was a credit card mentioned in this story, I am going to call it finance related. Ralph Hardy, a 13 year old from Newark, Texas confessed to ordering an extra credit card from his father's existing credit card company, and took his friends on a $30,000 spending ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
One of the highlights of my week is seeing a new episode of "This American Life" pop into my podcasts folder in iTunes. For those of you not familiar with the show, it is a one hour radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio and hosted by Ira Glass.
This ...
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Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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