While I was out of town I missed this new paper (PDF) from MIT economist David Autor, which shows that people who are out of work and take a temporary gig until a full-time position comes along might be doing damage to their long-term earnings power.
Autor and Susan Houseman of the W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research studied a …
Take it from a business journalist: Don’t listen to stock tips from business journalists. Also, don’t invest like an average Joe (or Jane).
Well, I’m back from Switzerland. Europe was great, but boy was it nice to have a stupidly large coffee in a throw-away cup this morning.
On the plane ride home, I wrote a Time.com piece titled “10 things I learned in Davos.” I’ll link to it as soon as I see it go up. (UPDATE: Here it is.) Among my learnings: bank CEOs are unrepentant, …
If recent consumer spending is any indication, the best bottled water is … cheap bottled water.
As one writer recently found out firsthand, once you succeed in bargaining and realize how easy it is and how much you can save, it’s hard to go back to paying retail.
Use the coupon code BC19004 (per Buxr) and you’ll receive 40% off of already discounted merchandise at Bargain Catalog Outlet. The code is valid through February 2.
Well, probably not anyway. It’s just that your toilet paper could very well be getting smaller.
If you’re worried that the federal stimulus to the economy is not reaching people fast enough, take heart from the latest announcements by Toyota. Now that the automaker has found a fix for its sticky accelerator-pedal problem, it’s going to quickly start sending mini repair kits to its dealers around the world. The estimated time for …
And that’s after numbers dropped off due to the recession. In 2006, 18- to 34-year-old Americans—a group known as “super fans” who have accounted for half of all visits to some fast food franchises—ate burgers, fries, nuggets, and other drive-thru favorites almost 19 times a month.
What you think you know about credit cards and debt may not be true.
