Business is Personal (Finance)

Recent Entries in economics

• Health Care Reform

  March 23, 2010 1:10 AM
  The big news in the U.S. is of course health care reform. Nancy Pelosi (who actually represents my old district) held tough on her party members in the House and made it happen even when it seemed Obama's administration might... 0

• Sales Psychology

  March 8, 2010 6:03 AM
  March 8 is International Women's Day in China and many other countries around the world. Walking around local stores for women's clothing, signs showing "3.8 discount" representing the date 3/8 were everywhere. In China (and Chinatowns across the world), discounts... 0

• Random follow-ups

  January 25, 2010 12:44 AM
  Follow-ups to some of my previous posts: Website Changes The web user interface is now consistent across all screens. In addition, some previously missing functionality has been restored. Copied style from Home (last 10 entries) to Category Archives and Search... 0

• College Costs, Prisoners' Dilemma

  September 26, 2009 2:25 AM
  For the past few years, I've been putting money away in Ohio CollegeAdvantage 529 plan for my kids. Just recently, CollegeAdvantage brought back their referral bonus program and various personal finance sites (examples: MyMoneyBlog, The Sun's Financial Diary) are posting... 0

• Reports from the USA

  September 16, 2009 10:24 PM
  We're regularly in touch with friends back in the USA as it's pretty easy/cheap with VOIP phone services. Recently, almost everybody is saying local economy has slowed down drastically in the past 2 months. Perhaps the heart of the recession... 0

• Reality check on housing

  September 9, 2009 3:42 PM
  I was browsing the internet and came across this article http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32756481/ns/business-real_estate. The meat of the article, I don't really care about. We all already know why we're in this mess It's the secondary headline that caught my attention.Official says a... 0

• Labor Day

  September 7, 2009 10:27 PM
  Now that people have partially recovered from a full day of BBQing hot dogs and guzzling beer, perhaps some reflection on the history of Labor Day is in order. Let me quote a snippet from Wikipedia:"The first Labor Day in... 0