Random links
- College has been oversold
- "... going to college is not enough. You also have to study the right subjects. And American students are not studying the fields with the greatest economic potential." Are US universities seriously handing out fewer computer science degrees than 25 years ago? (Although there's at least one university that apparently is eliminating computer science while keeping other programs of dubious value around.
- The Rich Get Poorer
- "Here is a fact that you might not have heard from the Occupy Wall Street crowd: The incomes at the top of the income distribution have fallen substantially over the past few years."
- Drink Cheap Wine: I mean, really cheap.
- "Europeans seem perfectly comfortable cracking open a 1-euro tetra-pak of wine for guests. Germans, for example, pay just $1.79 on average for a bottle of wine. Not long ago, American wine-buying habits were very similar to the Germans’." I still prefer beer though.
- Hell hath no fury like a woman whose state pension age has been raised
- Amazing how raising the age that women can get a pension to the same age as for men can provoke outrage, despite longer life expectancy for women (see the British government's info on pension ages).