Saturday, April 9, 2011

Snooki's speaking fee is $25,000 per appearance...WOW, what a bargain!!!

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Is Snooki worth the speaking fee she receives? Rutgers University paid $32,000 for her to come to speak to students. However, apparently she...
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Nice article on cost savings from attending a Community College for a year or two...Worth a read...

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Nice article on the virtues of attending a Community College for the first year or two of college before transferring.  Smart adive. The onl...
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Let's not obsess over growing the budget pie or shinking the budget pie...Let's obsess over the crumbs instead---Nice pie chart putting the budget battle in perspective...(thanks Colin Chisholm)

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  Source: The Big Picture  
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How could the House budget-cutters miss this EASY program to do away with? Subsidies to install gas pumps to dispense E-85 gas with Ethanol...Please help me pick up the pieces of my exploding head...

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What a way to start the day. I sit down with a nice cup of coffee and this gem pops out from the WSJ ....Grants and subsidized loans to inst...
Friday, April 8, 2011

Dollar Depreciates overnight...get ready to pay more for "stuff"...

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A nice article illustrating two AP Macro concepts.  The first is the interest rate effect on the value of currencies relative to each other....
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Sunday, April 3, 2011

Chart of worst jobs in History...I had one in college that I think can be added to the list...judge for yourself...

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I believe I have one to add to the list. In college, I had a job in the Anthropology department boiling, skinning (or de-feathering), strip...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

Watch a Live-Stream of an Eagles Nest and the potential to see new hatchlings TODAY---I find this fascinating!!

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You have to watch an advertisement first, but the video is a live-stream of an Eagles nest and apparently one egg has hatched  TODAY and two...

If I can JUST make it to retirement age I will be able to find a job!! Huh? That does not sound right, but may be true...

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Below is a chart of the "winners and losers" in the hunt for jobs in the last 15 months.  The group in the 45 to 54 range are larg...
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The job gains in the latest employment report ALL (almost all) went to Women!! See the incredible numbers here...

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These two items from the latest Employment Report are pretty interesting (from the Household Survey,--a phone survey, not the headline estab...

Engineering meets Economics on the 50th Floor of a Skyscraper---A nice graphic on the Marginal Costs of Tall Buildings...

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Skycraper construction is reaching new heights, literally and figuratively. This is the last graphic from an interactive that shows a histor...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

A nice, simple gasoline tax graphic for the US....

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I have posted something similar in terms of the variation in gasoline taxes in the US, but this graphic is a much more simple visual.  The F...
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Those Cotton Pickin' Farmers are to blame for higher food prices! No, really, it is literally the fault of Cotton Picking farmers that food prices will increase...

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In Microeconomics, farmers and the commodities they grow are used to illustrate a perfectly competitive market. The main characteristic of a...
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Monday, March 28, 2011

US Energy Consumption by Energy Source---Once again, the problem is obvious...

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 Source: Economix 
Sunday, March 27, 2011

After spending a semester abroad you must work as an intern...College is no fun anymore! But getting a job in your preferred career field IS the end game...

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In addition to spending a semester abroad, internships are becoming an important part of marketing yourself.  I know, I know, you say......
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We know how much a gallon of gas costs. But how much do other things you buy cost by the gallon? Nice graphic!

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 Source: Paul Kedrosky's Infectious  Greed 
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