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Track Your Taxes

Jul 8, 2009
Concerned citizens can now track government spending at USASpending.gov. Users can view current and historical spending on contracts, grants, and loans, broken down by characteristics like...

The Failure of Yankees Fans (and Mets Fans Too)

Jun 29, 2009
I took the family to last night's Yankees-Mets game at the new Citi Field. We had a great time despite the very late hour. (More on that later.) This was the final game of the season between the crosstown rivals. Interleague play means that lots...

Foreclose, Default, Repeat

May 28, 2009
Home prices continue to fall, dropping another 18.7 percent in March. The price plunge is being blamed in part on the glut of cheap, foreclosed homes on the market. How cheap are these homes?...

Truth in Advertising

May 26, 2009
What a boom it was! So much so that I just noticed a local Philly contractor, perhaps more honest than most, who named his business "Bubble Builders." In a sign of the times, I haven't...

The "We're In The Money" Blues

May 18, 2009
Listeners of "The Numbers" segment on NPR's Marketplace, a daily recap of the stock market's action, thought its upbeat version of "We're in the Money" as background music is inappropriate for the...

The Spiked-Drink Myth

Nov 24, 2009
Drinking alcohol puts people at high risk for all kinds of misfortunes. Exposure to date-rape drugs, however, doesn't seem to be one of them. In a study published in the British Journal of Criminology, more than half of the 200 university students...

Today, I Am a Lawbreaker: A Freakonomics Contest

Nov 24, 2009
Yesterday, and for much of the past year, I regularly did something that was perfectly legal. Starting today, if I do the same thing, I am breaking a New York State law. What is it that I'm doing? The first correct answer earns a signed copy...

Need to Know How Charitable You Are? There's an App for That

Nov 24, 2009
Chapter 3 of SuperFreakonomics, called "Unbelievable Stories About Apathy and Altruism," takes a look at the research of John List (the Univ. of Chicago economist, not the notorious murderer of the same same - although the same chapter does cast a new...

Just in Time for Christmas: Free Autographed Bookplates

Nov 23, 2009
If you'd like to turn your garden-variety copy of SuperFreakonomics (or Freakonomics) into a nifty autographed copy that suddenly seems much more gift-appropriate, you can sign up here for a free bookplate that is hand-signed by Levitt and Dubner. If...

Why California's Tuition Hike Might Be a Good Thing

Nov 23, 2009
Students at University of California schools have been protesting the decision of the Board of Regents "to raise undergraduate fees - the equivalent of tuition - 32 percent next fall." But higher tuition, if it is accompanied with higher financial aid...


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