I’ve noted before that more and more women are making more than their partners and spouses, and although statistically in many jobs, men still make more than women, the balance of monetary “powerâ€� in many relationships is shifting. So how is this balance holding up in the recession? Turns ...

Filed under: Money & work, Chores Like most parents, Annette Kiesow now thinks twice before she buys her six-year-old son, Josh, a new toy. "We talk about what things cost, and compare the prices of things when we're at the store," says the Merrimack, N.H. mom. "We talk about the things he has a...

GOOD » Making Sense of the Financial Mess» - We tried to make sense of the financial mess we’re in. As you can see, we couldn’t come up with anything satisfying, so we want your help. We’re offering $500 to the best global finance infographic we receive, as judged by a ...

Filed under: Audio/Video, Cell Phones, Video Games Most Americans are saying "Screw the economy, I'm keeping my gadgets," according to Fox News. Despite hard times, most folks aren't giving up their music downloads or smartphones. In fact, they're spending nearly as much as they ever have. According...

Rand and This Moment - Ramesh Ponnuru - The Corner on National Review Online Rand and This Moment [Ramesh Ponnuru] Sales of Atlas Shrugged are surging. It has been a good long while since I read the book, but my bet would be that the current economic downturn will reduce rather than increase the cir...

The Internet is being bombarded with all sorts of offers to participate in different kinds of MLM programs. And I’m often asked about those programs, if they are a good thing or not, a good investment of time and money, or if they’re just a scheme, some sort of a pyramid scheme. No, they’re no...

LA Times teacher layoff story, with bias.Yes, layoffs based on seniority alone will always involve some retention of unfortunate burnout victims who shouldn't have that job anymore anyway. Like many issues in education, the current system is screwed, but I see no better way to fix it. (Don't tell me...

Filed under: Money & work, Resources In 1956, Coach Jerry Sacharski couldn't turn away the little guys who showed up wanting to be part of his summer baseball program, so he started the first PeeWee T-ball league to teach the six -to-eight-year-old set the fundamentals of baseball and a thing or...

Maybe some smarty pants MBA can help me out—but preferably not one of those guys who pretends to understand those gee whiz Weapons of Financial Destruction known as derivatives. Last week that day finally arrived when you could buy a share of Citigroup at the Dollar Store. And in the pattern that ...

Having been around the track quite a few times over my checkered career, I’m once again starting to pick up that rancid smell of fear which always permeates the Adverati when the economy begins its inexorable tightening of the marketing budget screws after the excesses of the “money grows on tre...