Wernick calls and emails me his random business ideas about every other week (because he hates the idea of having to be a lawyer???). To date, I’ve rejected them all as completely idiotic. One of his most recent ones was trying to convince me that you could apply the Netflix subscription model to the magainze [...]

I’ve posted this chart periodically over the last year. But it always help to have a little refresher when new jobs reports come out:

Nonfarm payroll employment was little changed (-36,000) in February, and the unemployment rate held at 9.7 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Employment fell in construction and information, while [...]

So, it’s not completely official, but I’m probably moving to Minneapolis in the near future.
I just got a call from The Hittman — he just got an offer accepted on a condo in Minneapolis. And he’s going to be my landlord come March/April once he closes on everything.
I just couldn’t stand to be away from [...]

I’m this close to packing it up and moving down under to New Zealand (or is ‘down under’ exclusive to Australia?) to earn a living:
WELLINGTON, New Zealand – A New Zealand teenager who says she auctioned her virginity online for $32,000 to raise tuition money did not break any laws but it might be risky [...]

We’re not there yet:
From supermarkets to department stores, sales fell 0.3 percent from November, a decline that economists attributed to a bleak jobs market and a reluctance by consumers to spend freely. Analysts, encouraged by signs that consumers were regaining confidence, had expected sales to rise 0.5 percent.
Consumer spending drives 70% of the US economy. [...]

$146/month to be a live-in protester in a hole-in-the-wall restaurant in Beijing. I’ve been to Beijing. It’s a great, great city. This job is as appealing as they come these days:
Wanted: One live-in protester, $146 a month, no days off.
When the managers of a Beijing restaurant marked for demolition were too busy to fight it, [...]

I’m trying out some Google ads with their AdSense program, because I can. I think get paid per 1000 views or 100 clicks or something like that. I imagine it’ll amount to pennies/month, if that, but I figured I’d try it out anyway just to see how things go.
So, you’ll see on the right some [...]

The Great Wahl is very versatile. I can switch from boiling beer pong balls to really nerdy econ discussions in just one post.
A lot of economic articles I follow have been talking about a “W”-shaped dip coming in the American economy. Jobs continue to drag on the economy, and unemployment continues to climb despite the [...]

I don’t know if I’ve ever made a post about celebrities or gossip, or celebrity gossip, but I couldn’t ignore opining on this one.
David Letterman kept a secret bedroom at his talk show’s studio that only a select few female staffers were allowed to visit, it has been claimed.
The television host sensationally admitted last week [...]

I can now add van driver and charity work to my resume. I spent an hour this afternoon picking up anti-bacterial wipes from my dad’s company (one of the many categories they produced), loading them into the soccer mom van, and driving them over to the local school. Probably 1200 containers in all.
Now all the [...]