Monthly Archives: June, 2010

Our Book is out! Our Download is new! Our Economics is Sexy!

That’s right. Our book Bringing Sexy Back to Economics is now Available to Order! We know it has taken a while, which is why we added three new chapters to the physical book (not available in the E-book and Kindle versions). These new chapters, ‘The Twitter Bubble’, ‘Yes, Virginia, Markets are Efficient’ and ‘Read this [...]

An Ad saying Ads are useless?

Confused sign of the times or Ingenious marketing? Google states that print ads are useless… via a print ad. Things like this should remind you that, despite flops like Wave and Buzz, Google still has it in them.

Self-Reliance: How to Regress by 30,000 Years

With all the problems we are seeing in the international markets and economies, might it be safer to be less exposed to these vagaries of Supply and Demand? For example, if we all grew our own vegetables, would that free us from the shackles of the financial world when buying our food? This is the [...]

Mortgage Calculator

If you are considering buying a new home in the near future, we will direct you here. If, after reading that, you’re still the market, or if you’re already a homeowner, then we recommend you read on: Chances are you have a good idea what the mortgage amount will be, but have no idea what [...]

How Movie Studios Shoot Themselves in the Foot

In 1975, Sony released Betamax, a video cassette recording device that could be attached to a television set and could record television programs onto its Betamax cassettes. In 1976 Walt Disney and Universal Studios sued Sony for copyright infringement. They argued that these video cassette recorders (VCRs) could be used to copy and distribute their [...]