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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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Years ago, I had a friend who was a singer in a retro-punk band called Vaginal Cancer. He picked the name after his girlfriend had had a suspicious Pap smear….
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Americans have always had a fairly violent reaction to taxes, but they aren’t inherently evil — and in her latest Numberscruncher, Ann Logue hits the Teabaggers with a cold splash of reality.
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The site of the 2016 Olympics will be announced on Friday, and Chicago is considered to be a close contender along with Rio de Janeiro. Speaking on behalf of my…
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Ben Bernanke said that the recession is over, but what he thinks isnÁ¢€â„¢t important. The more important arbiter of the business cycle, Federal Express, reported its earnings last week. Profits…
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With pure obviousness, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that median household income in the United States fell to $50,303 in 2008, a 3.6 percent decline from 2007. Adjusted for inflation,…
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In August of 1969, my grandparents took their younger children to New York City on vacation, where they saw the sights and met with their dazzling nephew Bob Cessna, an…
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We know it pays to be a Beatle. But just how well? In this week’s Numberscruncher, Ann Logue takes a peek inside the world of Beatle finances to answer that question.
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I hate corporate jargon at least as much as the next person, and Á¢€Å“Think Win-Win!Á¢€ is one of many good reasons to be self-employed. Still, it represents an interesting idea:…
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Having too many dudes around can be a terrible problem — especially on a cultural level, as explored in the latest edition of Ann Logue’s Numberscruncher.
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Tired of hearing about health care? Tough luck, bitches! Ann Logue is all about the Medicare in this week’s Numberscruncher.
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Who the hell is this four-eyed coot, and why is he sitting in the Popdose spotlight? Read Ann Logue’s latest column to find out.
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Who is Zachary Mexico and what’s he doing in the China Underground? Read Ann Logue’s review of the new Soft Skull release to find out.
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/683YnDGSqoY” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] Usually, tales of Greek houses gone bad fall into two categories: drugs and alcohol, or hazing. The undergraduate members screw up; the old…
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/d6vjrzUplWU” width=”600″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] The health-care crisis and the financial crisis have a problem in common, which is how the government can regulate those markets to make…
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Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported on the exaggerations and assumptions required to make the claim that Michael Jackson sold 750 million albums. He sold a lot of albums,…
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Alsip isnÁ¢€â„¢t the leafy, angsty Chicago suburb of a John Hughes movie. If people know about it, itÁ¢€â„¢s probably because they have been to a wedding at the Chateau Bu-ScheÁ¢€â„¢.Á‚ Á‚ …
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Chrissie Hynde: rock star, activist … restaurateur? Ann Logue broke bread at Hynde’s Akron, Ohio, eatery, VegiTerranean, and is back to tell us about it.
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Andrew Mueller, I Wouldn’t Start From Here: The 21st Century and Where It All Went Wrong (U.S. edition, 2009, Soft Skull) purchase from Amazon I Wouldn’t Start From Here is…
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/92wr1UfMN_w” width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] ItÁ¢€â„¢s been a bad time for NFL quarterbacks. Bernie Kosar, who played for the Browns, Cowboys, and Dolphins, filed for bankruptcy.Á‚ Ryan Leaf,…
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John Adams started it. In addition to cowriting the Declaration of Independence and his role in the American Revolutionary War, Adams wanted American independence to be celebrated in a big…
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DonÁ¢€â„¢t think Michael JacksonÁ¢€â„¢s death was a tragedy. He was 50, old enough to have outlived many of my friends and relatives. His best work was in the 1980s, so…
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In her latest Numberscruncher column, Ann Logue looks at the dark spot where church misconduct and economics intersect.
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Eugene Fama is the Susan Lucci of the Nobel Prize world. He not only developed the Efficient Markets Hypothesis, which sits beneath almost every theory in finance, but he also…
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[kml_flashembed movie=”http://www.youtube.com/v/Smddcs5n0H0″ width=”425″ height=”344″ allowfullscreen=”true” fvars=”fs=1″ /] For the month of May, the unemployment rate clocked in at 9.4%, the highest level since the early 1980s. It felt like old…
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Lauren Luke is the other British YouTube sensation. And unlike Susan Boyle, she hasnÁ¢€â„¢t been hospitalized for exhaustion. Instead, Lauren Luke has gone from making videos in her bedroom showing…