Gone in 15 Minutes
Toys usually don’t go out of style, and they can so easily be reused and recycled either inside of families or by passing them on to friends.
Unemployment Up a Bit for April 2009
The great debt crash of 2008 caused unemployment to be quite bad even into April 2009.
Happy Mother’s Day
How else best to celebrate Mother’s Day than to watch a great animated short from the National Film Board of Canada, about a Mother Hen.
Enough Stimulation Big Boy May 2009
In this sharp-tongued commentary, the question is posed: how much economic stimulation is too much? With bailout packages, infrastructure spending, and central bank liquidity injections flowing freely in 2009, this post questions whether stimulus has become a substitute for structural reform. Mixing wit and wariness, it explores the unintended consequences of “stimulation”—debt, inflation, and moral hazard—and challenges the reader to ask whether all this economic energy is really fixing the problem or just postponing it.
Keywords: stimulation, economic stimulus, government spending, 2009 recession, bailouts, economic recovery, financial crisis response, inflation risk
The High Cost of Active Kids
As most parents know about the high cost of active kids, especially those playing competitive sports. How can we afford it? Not easily that is for sure.
