Monthly Archives: July 2011

The Right To Waste My Own Money

In one of my favorite Two and A Half Men episodes (of which there are many), Char­lie takes Jake to the horse rac­ing track instead of help­ing him with his book report. Jake has $14 to spend and he needs some advice from Uncle Char­lie. Char­lie rec­om­mends putting his money where the other smart money …

July 11, 2011 – 2:46 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Legal Affairs | Comments (1)

A Tale of Two Tragedies

Any­one who doesn’t live under a rock has been bom­barded by a media assault over the last few days regard­ing the acquit­tal of Casey Anthony. For weeks, news about the trial has been per­va­sive on sites like CNN where appar­ently their mar­ket research shows that the peo­ple who go to CNN.com just can’t get enough …

July 6, 2011 – 6:04 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Legal Affairs | Tagged , | Comments (0)

The End of The Euro For Dummies

Let’s start with a story. You and I are friends. You dis­cover that you’re going to come up a lit­tle bit short on the rent this month and ask to bor­row $100 from me. I agree, loan­ing you $100 at 10% inter­est (we’re just doing that to keep the math sim­ple, I would never loan …

July 4, 2011 – 9:08 am | By Brett Bim | Posted in Economics | Tagged , , , | Comments (2)

Google+ Is What I Want Facebook To Be

While it’s still very early in the process for Google+, already I’m see­ing things they are doing that I wish Face­book did. The pri­mary dif­fer­ence for me is the Cir­cles com­po­nent of Google+. From the descrip­tion: Google+ Cir­cles helps you orga­nize every­one accord­ing to your real-life social connections–say, ‘fam­ily,’ ‘work friends,’ ‘music bud­dies,’ and ‘alumni’. …

July 3, 2011 – 1:18 pm | By Brett Bim | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , | Comments (3)