Wanna Be a StockStar?

When I was up visiting family in Revelstoke for Christmas, my sister who lives in Red Deer, Alberta pointed me towards a fun website she has been using to experience what it is like to buy and sell stocks.  She started her portfolio just before the major crash in October so she is down quite [...]

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No Fun To Think and Shop

I went shopping with a gift card I received and found the malls crazy yesterday.   Personally I didn’t find the  sales to be all that spectacular, which is contrary to what I am reading in the media.    Still thinking about the behavioral economics post I completed before Christmas, I decided to do some further [...]

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CBC: BC Feet Mystery 2008 Newsmaker (video)

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Hamas Israel Conflict (videos)

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Belated Holiday Greetings and Working Life Meme

A belated Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day to all my readers.  I am sorry I have not posted in awhile but I was up in Revelstoke, BC visiting family and giving my arm a rest as I seemed to have developed a case of tendinopothy in my elbow due to excessive computer use (likely [...]

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Behavioural Economics Buzz

There is a new buzzword in the media these days that has my grabbed my attention; behavioral economics or the psychology of economics.  Apparently the biggest economic, investment, gurus, of our time have steered us into this economic mess because they have failed to adequately consider the behavioral psychology of human beings.  This failure has [...]

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