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Numberscruncher: Getting Value from Intellectual Property
Sita Sings the Blues is a great, sad movie about a breakup. The creator, Nina Paley, mixes animation styles and narrators, using the story of the Hindu gods Rama and Sita in the Ramayana.
Read More »Numberscruncher: Haiti, Foreign Aid, and Foreign Trade
Americans like to stress about our current account deficit. Even if they do not know the terms of the amounts, they worry about the fact that we export much less than we import, that
Read More »Numberscruncher: “American Idol” and the Stock Market
John Maynard Keynes, the eminent economist who is back in style, described the stock market as a beauty contest. He asked the readers of his General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money to imagine
Read More »Numberscruncher: Who Needs the Radio?
When I was a kid, I had to listen to whatever the DJ picked. One of the odder decade-end lists was Nielsen’s list of the most-played singles on radio between 2000 and 2009. It’s
Read More »Numberscruncher: Taxes Around the World
Americans have a unique phobia about taxes. Years ago, politicians told us that we could have more stuff by paying less money, and we liked that. And so, we believe it despite all evidence
Read More »Numberscruncher: Sweden Is Not Socialist
Last week, a conservative friend asked me how I liked living in Sweden under Comrade Obama. I sighed. Somehow or another, it has become accepted that Sweden is a frightening socialist state and that
Read More »Numberscruncher: The Funny Papers
The death spiral of the newspaper industry has been well documented -- but the once-proud comics section has been struggling for some time now. Ann Logue surveys the damage in her latest column
Read More »Numberscruncher: Gift Cards, Bargains, and Scams
The latest trend in the “something for nothing on the Internet” game is the pay-to-bid auction site. The auction operator lets such items as cash and gift cards go at prices far below face
Read More »Numberscruncher: Insider Trading
It’s darn near impossible for an investment manager to beat the market once you adjust performance for risk and fees. Every quarter, when Morningstar shows its fund reports, more than half of all funds
Read More »Numberscruncher: The College Sustainability Report Card
What's the College Sustainability Report Card, and what does it have to do with happy chickens? Read Ann Logue's latest Numberscruncher to find out
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