When most of us reach a certain point in our professional and personal finance journey, we start to experience lifestyle […]

Defense spending is a collective good that would tend to have positive externalities (more-so than most transfer payments).  Additionally, defense […]

Welcome to another edition of The Weekender, this one coinciding with the Super Bowl!  Before you ask, yes, I am […]

You know we here at DQYDJ love to try to raise your hackles every once and a while, and there's […]

Remember my dog ate my blinds?  It ended up being a $270 chew toy - thanks to Blinds Chalet for […]

Although this blog regularly deals with personal finance, economics and politics, our interests span a wide array of other areas […]

Sorry I haven't been too prolific on the hard-hitting articles.  I recognized that our calculators and visualizations page is getting […]

You may have heard of 'theta' or 'time-value' decay, but in this article we're going to play it close to […]

When people quote the returns of the S&P 500, they like to use the 'price return', as if price returns […]

(Well, we mislabeled our last Weekender - but are you really going to hold that against us?  I hope not!) […]