Economics for the Intelligent Amateur

In a recent Reader’s Digest article entitled, “The Government is Wasting Your Tax Dollars,” the authors Ryan Grim and Joseph K. Vetter concluded that an estimated USD 983.5 billion is overspent on just a handful of government projects each year.
To put that number in perspective, the United States Government’s (USG) total tax revenue for 2007 [...]

I was hoping you and/or your readers and contributors might be able to shed some light on the current credit market conditions. The sum of what I know is that sometime in the spring of last year, investors began to notice that a particular segment of the credit community was not it’s usual healthy self [...]

Although not new, and arguably not a serious economics work, Freakonomics nonetheless has had an enormous impact on everyday economics and will be recognized for some time to come. Therefore it seems fitting as our first book review:
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
By Steven Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
HarperCollins Publishers, 2005. [...]

Here are a few additions to our coupons sites. They will be listed in the Shopping section under Resources:
http://www.fatwallet.com/
It was rather premature of us to post coupon sites without mentioning this one. Fatwallet, strictly speaking, is a rebate site. It is an “associate” of various retail stores and, as such, it receives a rebate. It [...]