Hey nerds! In case you weren't paying attention, it's J.R.R.Tolkien's biRRthday today. In honor of the occasion, a week ago I ...

Today's edition of YouTube Tuesday celebrates the good news that will send hipsters hopping all to way to Merriam in a couple of years ....

From what I could tell, the little tidbit of news didn't get much play earlier this week. At least if it did, I didn't see it in the...

I was having a quick lunch with a few of my closest friends a few weeks ago when the conversation wound around to the topic of Groupon. I...

The comment from Lodo came, not apropos of the post it was on but certainly an apt continuation of a conversation we've been having he...

A couple of days ago I was having The Worst Day Ever. Overslept. Woke up with a stiff neck. Kid wouldn't eat her breakfast. Blew out my ...

Let's say, just hypothetically, that you wanted to be rich. I'm talkin' Bill Gates rich. Rich enough that you don't merely w...

A week and a half ago, financial luminaries in Europe (and in the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank) decided to give bankrupt Greece a larger line o...

Don't you hate it when you're trying to have a conversation, trying to reply to a comment, and you realize you've gone passed th...

A bloggy friend recently twitted me that I have a bit of an unhealthy obsession with Goldman Sachs. And honestly, I don't have much of ...

If a guy came up to you and started laying down a cogent, rational argument that creating a system in which giant taxpayer funded bailouts w...

So what do you think? Are we spending way beyond our means in an effort to try to generate a healthier economy? Are we suffering from a spen...

Uncle Nick was kind enough to point out one of the money quotes from the ongoing Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission hearings headed by Ph...

Yesterday I mentioned that "the system" is broken, and I realize that is a gross overstatement of the obvious. But I want to be cl...

Hey guys. I don't know if you realized this or not, but we're in the midst of a pretty nasty national economic recession. We have be...

I'm going to backtrack a little bit because I have a couple of things I want to say about the whiny babies running Bank of America right...

Hey let's face it people, our beloved greenback has taken its lumps the last few years. Bush's supposed "strong dollar" po...