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With the stimulus now part of the economic landscape, my mind began to wonder just how big is a trillion? This triggered a vague memory of a book I read when I was a tyke called How Much is a Million? My how inflation has changed things! To start with, what is a trillion? It’s [...]
By March 3rd, Starbucks will begin offering “pairings” of a tall coffee or latte with various breakfast foods such as oatmeal, coffee cake, or an egg sandwich for $3.95. I suspect this has something to do with McDonald’s 7.1% increase in same store sales in January. Only a few months ago the CEO described Starbucks [...]
The Art of Strategy is “a game theorist’s guide to success in business and life.” This succinct description quite eloquently sums up the material. Each chapter begins with an overview of a tenant of game theory followed by an application of this tenant in an easily understood manner. The best part is the cast study [...]
A friend of mine recently told me he hopes Obama will bring about “the New Deal2.0.” Generally large scale changes to the economic environment via political policies are hard to measure but this WSJ article did a very good job. Here are some of the statistics from the article: Total hours worked per adult fell 18% from [...]