Percentage of Gifts Bought Online

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What percentage of Christmas gifts are bought online? For me this year it was 86%. This is a totally unscientific study. The sample size is only one person. Overall, roughly $570 billion was spent on holiday retail purchases, $38.7 billion

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Transparency in Real Estate

House and Keys in Female Hands

Companies like Zillow and Redfin have brought an increased level of transparency to real estate transactions, but real estate is still one of the last things bought and sold on a closed bid system the majority of the time. The

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On Government Futility

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It’s no secret we’re terrible with money, but our elected officials are literally 10x worse: Put another way: It’s not a Democrat or Republican thing. It’s a common sense thing, and both parties are terrible. You can only spend money

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Hotwire and the High Price of Certainty

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Price discrimination is generally frowned upon in most fixed marketplaces.  If a pound of apples is $1 for you at the grocery store, it should be a $1 for everyone, right?  But like I learned from my “stand-up economist” professor,

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The Stand-Up Economist, Part 2

My econ professor has another video out!  Great stuff. “The Tea Party: People who believe in Social Darwinism, but don’t believe in Darwin.”

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