Underbelly

Twice this week, I've heard versions of the same story.  Paraphrasing: --I look at my investment accounts and I can't believe wh...

If you're standing near a microphone, you'd better get out of the way or be trampled by the mad stampede of public figures rushing ...

I'm sure this is not original with me, but I'll repeat it: one reason for the high end art market is that it is so hard for the tru...

As  Ludwig von Mises wrote to Ayn Rand : “You have the courage to tell the masses what no politician told them: you are inferior and all...

Here's a job for which I am too old and sick and stupid and tired and lazy to do myself.  But it  society shouldn't be too hard. ...

Best thing I've read all day , except why does he call it an American  plutocracy? Seems to me the point is that it is a deracinated glo...

Fascinating data here on what has happened to per capita  GDP since the end of 2007.  China is, of course, up--a nosebleeding  35 percent; ...

Okay, wiseguys: if I asked you who was the richest man in the United States in 1970 * 1870, you might well say "Cornelius Vanderbilt...

I'm a couple of days late on the story about how 15 percent of all Singaporeans are millionaires . A quick skim suggests that just abou...

Here's one that isn't quite new but it ought to be welcomed by anybody who loves an inconvenient fact: Steve Rose's counterintu...

I knew that Warren Buffett still lives in the home that he bought in Omaha in 1958 for $31,500. I guess I didn't realize that it has f...

Joel flags me to the news that my natal state, cold, rocky, infertile New Hampshire, now lies eighth on the list of states with the most mi...

...walk-in closets, his-and-hers bathrooms, caramel macchiatos, balsamic reductions, boutique wines, liberal-arts colleges, personal trainer...

TigerHawk is proud of making money ; Andrew Sullivan ( but see update below ) suggests he should be ashamed . But it’s more complicated th...