money-matters
Food Is So Expensive Now
Hamilton Nolan · 03/03/11 12:12PMReport: Women Slowly Creeping Up on Men
Hamilton Nolan · 03/01/11 11:25AMWomen: always sneaking up behind men, trying to take our money. The latest confirmation comes from a new White House report on the "state of women," which confirms what you'd always suspected: women are catching up. Oh, they're still lagging—women make about 75% as much as men these days, for the same jobs—but they're creeping up from behind elsewhere. They're getting more college degrees! Getting married later in life (30, for college-educated women)! And the wise refusal to be dragged down by a family:
Salon Pretty Sure It's Also Worth $315 Million (More or Less)
Hamilton Nolan · 02/28/11 02:52PMGreedy Prisoners Are Stealing American Jobs
Hamilton Nolan · 02/25/11 11:28AMA vast number of the states in our fine union are facing deep and painful budget cuts, thanks to the ongoing not-having of money, combined with lots of spending of money that we didn't have in the recent past. Education, social welfare, health care—the entire social safety net will have to be slashed. But with a little ingenuity, we'll be able to preserve our prison-industrial complex!
Everyone's Leaving Ireland Again
Hamilton Nolan · 02/24/11 04:12PMChicks Paying For Things Now
Hamilton Nolan · 02/24/11 01:42PMEncouraging news from the trend-heavy New York City dating world: single ladies have money now! Seventeen percent more money than their twentysomething male counterparts, according to a study that was immediately seized upon and churned into a New York Post trend story. You know what that means, fellas? Now it's time for you to have a "sugar mama!" Here's the scoop from one wealthy lady who gives her age as "29:"
At Least Some Lawyers Somewhere Are Making Tons of Money
Hamilton Nolan · 02/23/11 03:40PMWhy Aren't Americans Shopping at Wal-Mart Any More?
Hamilton Nolan · 02/23/11 11:34AMThe Borders Aftermath: Who Falls Next?
Hamilton Nolan · 02/17/11 12:54PMCollege Cuts Price
Hamilton Nolan · 02/17/11 11:09AMBreaking newsworthy news story: a college, in America, will not charge as much this year as it did last year. That's right: Sewanee, the University of the South, in Tennessee, will cost 10% less this year than the $46,000 it cost last year. This moderate price cut at an otherwise unremarkable regional college earned stories in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post.
Borders Is Bankrupt. Use Your Gift Cards Now!
Hamilton Nolan · 02/16/11 09:18AMReal Estate Market Collapse: Now Coming to the Nice Cities
Hamilton Nolan · 02/14/11 11:05AMEven during the worst days of the collapse of the housing bubble (Sundays through Saturdays), it was widely assumed that the real pain would be confined to Vegas, and Florida, and other places where people woke up and realized that they'd just paid $1.3 million for a particleboard McMansion in the middle of a desert and/ or swamp.
The Next American Gold Rush Is On
Hamilton Nolan · 02/11/11 05:05PMPop quiz: what's the correct conclusion to draw about our economy from the following news? The NYT reports that 1850s-era gold mines in California—many of which have not been working mines for 40 years or more—are now being reopened for prospecting. "Gold will soon be big business again in California's Mother Lode, in the same area of the Sierras - and occasionally the same mines - where the old-time prospectors once used pick axes, ore carts and burros to chase their riches."
Borders Filing for Bankruptcy
Hamilton Nolan · 02/11/11 03:45PMPayday Lending: The Next Vice We Pawn Off on Native Americans
Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/11 04:10PMThe Most Expensive Ball-Kicking in History
Hamilton Nolan · 02/10/11 09:18AMThis Would Be a Great Time to Buy a Home If You Had Any Money
Hamilton Nolan · 02/09/11 04:59PMThanks to the Great Recession's magical cleansing powers, all of the home ownership gains of the past decade's housing boom have already been erased. But there is good news! The affordability of homes has plummeted back down to pre-boom levels in the majority of markets that Moody's surveys. Finally, a home is back in your non-imaginary price range!