Archive for the ‘SavingFreakonomics’ Category
What We Can Learn From Texas About Housing
I have been reading up on the housing bust lately and saw a map of foreclosure rates from 2005 and then another map, below it, that shows the rates after the bust in 2009. I saw two thing that were very interesting. The first was that very rural states in the middle of the country [...]
SavingFreakonomics: San Francisco at it Again
I think that San Fran exists in its own little universe out there sometimes. I just read an article from the LA Times where San Fran has passed legislation that prevents a land lord from raising the rent to more than 33% of a renters income and allows a renter to add roommates and family [...]
SavingFreakonomics — Taxes on Businesses
With recent news on businesses cutting jobs (unemployment raised to 6.1%) I thought it might be interesting to look at business taxes and how they effect us. Ultimately, business taxes are a scam. The federal and state governments tax businesses under the ruse that this means you don’t have to pay as much out [...]
SavingFreakanomics — McCain Could Be Right on Transportation
In his bid to become president of the United State, Senator John McCain has proposed that the U.S. government offer a 300 million dollar prize to the individual or company that can produce a batter that will allow for inexpensive long range travel (100 miles or more). With so many options out there I wondered [...]
SavingFreakonomics — Corporations Do Not Pay Taxes
I have been meaning to get this off of my chest for a while. So many people I talk to do not understand how businesses work. They think that businesses are by nature evil. The larger they get the more evil they are. So large corporations are like the devil incarnate. For this reason many [...]
SavingFreakonomics — The Rising Price of, Everything?
Everyone complains about the rising price of gasoline, but I am seeing prices go up on just about everything. Now some people will tell you this all goes back to oil. Since we transport just about everything with some form of refined oil it makes sense that as the price of oil goes up so [...]
SavingFreakonomics — Why Oil is So High
With the economy slowing I have fielded more questions from friends and readers about why some of this happens. Since this topic tends to get political in nature I won’t be making this a weekly part of my blog but will visit the subject from time to time as we watch what the U.S economy [...]
