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On New Year’s Day, I calculated the rate of return of both my regular investing portfolio and my Roth IRA. I found that...

The government encourages all sorts of economically-inefficient behavior. But, until we can change the laws, we must play by the rules...

Today, I tried to use an automated teller machine (ATM) that was malfunctioning. In order to determine when the problem occurred, I...

Adam’s Law of Hotel Wi-Fi is: “The cheaper the room price, the cheaper, more plentiful,�and less encumbered the...

The magical thing about eBay is that it allows manufacturers to cut out the middle man. It is perhaps the largest and most diverse...

A few weeks ago, I attended the Academy of Management�annual meeting in Montreal, Canada. Having recently written an entry on the...

Last year, I went to Germany and compared German and American prices. This year brought me to the Chinese eastern seaboard, where I...

The minimum wage in the United States is $7.25 per hour as of 2010. At that rate, a person working 2,000 hours per year (50 weeks of...