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A Money Chart For Finance Geeks

Samuel L. Clemens stamp, 1940 November 30th is Mark Twain‘s birthday, which makes me think of some of his witty quotes such as this one:  “It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native…

Top 20 Bicycle Friendly Cities

Amsterdam’s popular mode of transportation In today’s blog post titled “California Wakes Up To Another Record High Gas Price,” Zero Hedge writes that “gas stations across the country are seeing increasing price-sensitivity by drivers with lines at the ‘cheapest’ and…

The Flawed Model Of Economic Growth

Wikipedia: Small is Beautiful, 1973. I read Small Is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher a couple of years after college. As for much of what I have learned about finance, economics, and other subjects, it…