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The Follow-Through: Answering the Rest of the Majoring in Photography Questions! 26 Aug 2013 | 09:39 am
Remember a few weeks back when we did a bit of research on Photography as a degree? Turns out that if you want to be a photographer, it’s best to take a non-fully paid undergraduate degree route. Th...
The DQYDJ Weekender, 8/24/2013 24 Aug 2013 | 11:11 pm
If you follow my life closely you’ll know this is the last week (God willing!) I’ll be writing with a kitchen renovation Sword of Damocles hanging over my head. Yes, it’s held there by my wife. Here...
Where Has All the Productivity Gone? 22 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
The National Bureau of Economic Research lists the Great Depressions birth and death dates as December 2007 and June 2009, respectively – Q4 2007 to Q2 2009. That means our current economic expansion...
Would You Prefer Restaurants Without Tipping? 19 Aug 2013 | 03:00 pm
No more passive aggressively spreading change on the table? The title was a subtle hint. Here’s a more obvious one: this piece might go over the head of our non-North American readers. The most und...
The DQYDJ Weekender, 8/17/2013 18 Aug 2013 | 10:26 pm
I don’t know what’s worst about the most recent revelations in this summer’s NSA saga. (Thanks to Barton Gellman writing at the Washington Post this time): There were 2,776 rule violations. Those r...
More on the Baby Boomers… 14 Aug 2013 | 07:53 pm
I know you read more than one site, but I’d like to temporarily turn your attention back to the topic we addressed on Monday: namely, that sites (let me cite one recent source again since some of you ...
No, The Slow Recovery is Not Due to Baby Boomers Retiring 12 Aug 2013 | 09:50 am
Do you know one of the hardest things to change? A narrative. One narrative for why the economic recovery has been so long and hard is because, well, blame the Baby Boomers. We often come to the de...
The DQYDJ Weekender, 8/10/2013 11 Aug 2013 | 01:42 am
Do I really need to come up with editions when I do these roundups? Okay, fine – how about the Kafkaesque Press Conference edition. If you don’t like Kafka, sure, Orwell fits too! Remember those ha...
Part 2 of Tales of a Mortgage: Realtors Bite! 7 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Last October, I mentioned that I had finally hit a net worth of zero, celebrating the occasion of being officially worthless. At that point I mentioned that my next step was to buy a house. I can now ...
Should You Care About Income When You Choose a Major? 5 Aug 2013 | 11:06 am
This site is no stranger to wandering into controversial topics like… well, anything college-related: We asked if you should get a degree or become a truck driver We discussed whether today’s colleg...
