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12/01/23 Are You a Pregnant Conservative Jewish Small Businesswoman?
12/01/20 The Long Game
12/01/19
12/01/18 We Could Save A Lot More On Defense
12/01/17 Printing Cupcakes
12/01/16 Joe, Jeff, Mitt, and Matt
12/01/13 Maybe Mitt Won't Be the Nominee After All
12/01/12 Math Geek Gold; Glaciation Postponed; Evil Reanimated
12/01/11 He Won't
12/01/10 Best App Ever
12/01/09 Peach Citrus Diet Fresca
12/01/07 Peach Citrus Diet Fresca
12/01/06 UnAmerican Activities
12/01/05 MYLGF
12/01/04 Of Taxes and Sewage
12/01/03 Golden But Listless
12/01/02 Happy New Year!
11/12/30 My All-Time Favorite Species
11/12/29 The 1%
11/12/28 If 98 Out of 100 Doctors Were Alarmed By Your Condition
11/12/27 Infrastructure: It's the Answer
11/12/26 Listless Liberals
11/12/22 Competition from Abroad
11/12/23 hay-ZEUS
11/12/21 Dazzling Possibility
12/11/06 Some Stuff He's Gotten Done
11/12/20 Thoroughly Modern
11/12/19 The Best Medicine
11/12/16 The Food Issue
11/12/15 Would You Like Another $13,000 A Year In Your Pocket?
11/12/14 Corporate Carols
11/12/13 Newt's Zero Percent Cap Gains Tax for the Wealthy
11/12/12 The Health Issue
11/12/09 Rick, Newt, Mitt, Teddy
11/12/08 The President's Speech
11/12/07 Yesterday
11/12/06 Don Berwick With Chris Hayes
11/12/05 The View From Abroad
11/12/02 ???
11/12/01 Dallas 1963
11/11/30 Got 2 Minutes and $7.7 Trillion?
11/11/29 Barney
11/11/28 What The Other Side Is Saying
11/11/23 Frum Tells It Like It Is
11/11/22 Grover and Newt
11/11/21 Infrabstruction v. Results
11/11/18 Odds and EMIS
11/11/17 Cool Fire
11/11/16 Greetings from Chicago
11/11/15 Congressional Approval Drops to 1%
11/11/14 The Guitar
11/11/11 It's Huntsman!
11/11/10 The (Very) Good News About Solar
11/11/09 It's All About the Dress
11/11/08 Two Minutes and "60 Minutes"
11/11/07 Embezzlement. Blackmail. Fraud . . . High School.
11/11/04 A Grant and a Rant
11/11/03 Why There's No Column Today
11/11/02 Dredging Up a Small, Nervous Gain
11/11/01 A Cuban Immigrant in the Top 1%
11/10/31 In Support of the Occupiers
11/10/28 Science and Happiness
11/10/27 Hope
11/10/26 Republicans One, Two, Three, and Frum
11/10/25 Is It Really Okay for a Judge to Vacation with One of the Parties to the Case?
11/10/24 Angry Birds
11/10/21 The World Is A Better Place
11/10/20 Enough Sniping
11/10/19 A Long List
11/10/18 Herman Cain, Warren Buffett
11/10/17 Nein, Nein, Nein
11/10/14 Nine Cheers for the New York Times
11/10/13 911
11/10/12 Failing Forests
11/10/11 Denying Dorothy Cooper Her Vote
11/10/10 Maybe the Bahaman Stock Market Is Closed Today
11/10/07 Swapping DVDs
11/10/06 Karl Rove Exposed
11/10/05 Gross and Buffett
11/10/04 Bathtubs
11/10/03 A Few Minutes With . . .
11/09/30 Leading The World
11/09/29 "Doh!"
11/09/28 White Male Property-Owners
11/09/27 Muffins Matter
11/09/26 Bullying 94-Year-Old Women
11/09/23 Just Do It
11/09/22 Wakawaka
11/09/21 What To Tell Friends Who May Still Be Demoralized
11/09/20 The First Jewish President
11/09/19 Warren Buffett Is A Smarter Businessman Than Mitch McConnell
11/09/16 Israel
11/09/15 YOUR Local Bridge
11/09/14 Patriots Pay Taxes
11/09/13 Pep
11/09/12 Jobs
11/09/09 The Speech - And the Opposition
11/09/08 Two Types of Idealists
11/09/07 Listen to a Highly Placed Long-Time Republican Staffer
11/09/06 The First Day of School
11/09/02 Have a Great Weekend!
11/09/01 Poor People Have a Tough Time Networking
11/08/31 Whence the Middle Class
11/08/30 The Divide - II
11/08/29 The Divide
11/08/26 You Respond To Ken
11/08/25 Dinner With Warren Buffett
11/08/24 “The Most Important Election of Our Lifetime”
11/08/23 Libya
11/08/22 If It Had Been Hillary
11/08/19 Class Warfare
11/08/18 The Answer Is So Obvious
11/08/17 Valley Forge
11/08/16 Tzedakah
11/08/15 DNDN Again
11/08/12 A Brilliant Plan
11/08/11 A Good War
11/08/10 The Infrastructure Deficit
11/08/09 Sign The Petition: Let Fred Debate!
11/08/08 The Good War
11/08/05 "Unimaginably Stupid"
11/08/04 So Help
11/08/03 Porpoise Towels
11/08/02 Frustration - But At Whom?
11/08/01 Bitterness and Sarcasm
11/07/29 What Should I Do With These Towels?
11/07/28 Rude!
11/07/27 Invest To Win The Future
11/07/26 The Bully Pulpit
11/07/25 Devastating Social Security?
11/07/22 Rule By Mickey's Dog
11/07/21 The Debate
11/07/20 The Idiotic Balanced Budget Amendement
11/07/19 Printing a Wrench
11/07/18 Satan and I
11/07/15 Satan, Oprah, Perry, Hitler
11/07/14 A Good News Video
11/07/13 Two Videos That Could Try Your Sense of Humor
11/07/12 On Strike
11/07/11 Don't Tax the Rich; Don't Let the Poor Vote; Confuse Everybody Else
11/07/08 Infrastructure
11/07/07 Watch This 30-Second Spot
11/07/06 The Key Is What We Spend Our Money +On+
11/07/05 LIsten
11/07/01 Worried, Married, and Calling for Free
11/06/30 Ozzie & Harriet - What Was So Awful About That?
11/06/29 Let The Bush Tax Cuts Expire
11/06/28 Keep The Faith
11/06/27 Love, Heat, and Accounting
11/06/24 The Sky IS Falling
11/06/23 When Heroes Collide
11/06/22 The Surprising Truth About Tort Reform
11/06/21 Borealis, Which Owns WheelTug
11/06/20 Updates
11/06/17 Claptrap - 3
11/06/16 Dirty Spending Secrets
11/06/15 You Can Tell A Guy From Notre Dame
11/06/14 PIIGS
11/06/13 Chicken Or Beef
11/06/10 Watch This Clip And Earn 10.3% A Year
11/06/09 Enjoying Life With Less Stuff
11/06/08 Saving Lives in New York
11/06/07 Glass Roads to Ho-Hum-ization
11/06/06 The Central Question
11/06/03 Ask Less Whether Artichokes Can Produce a 160% Capital Gain in 10 Weeks
11/06/02 The Climate Challenge
11/06/01 Don't Forget to Vote
11/05/30 Town Pride
11/05/27 WMT and Photo ID
11/05/26 14 Times Earnings?
11/05/25 ID, GLD, CVV
11/05/24 Money Tips for High School Grads
11/05/23 Well Regulated
11/05/20 Well Regulated?
11/05/19 Column 3762
11/05/18 Can Arnold Shoot His Way Into Heaven?
11/05/17 A Mind-Changing Tour of Homewood, PA
11/05/16 Newt? Really?
11/05/13 Hats Off To The 400
11/05/12 At All Costs: Protect the Rich
11/05/11 Revving the Engines of Capitalism
11/05/10 Welcome!
11/05/09 Comedy
11/05/06 Paying Up for Safety
11/05/04 Snow Day
11/05/03 Gold
11/05/02 At Last
11/04/29 BZ Is Up, Up Is Down
11/04/28 One Stock; Four Funds; Everything
11/04/27 Taxes, Progress, and Censorship
11/04/26 Free Education
11/04/25 Would Warren Buffett Use Delta Bonus Miles To Buy FCSC?
11/04/21 Will AMRN Buy Me a $40 Million Mansion?
11/04/20 UPDATES: AMRN, YMI, EMIS
11/04/19 Thomas Jefferson Also Said . . .
11/04/18 Thomas Jefferson On Taxes and Wealth
11/04/15 You Know What Today Is?
11/04/14 A Responsible Way Forward
11/04/13 Dicey DCTH
11/04/12 Tom Tommorow and the Spread of Terrible Ideas
11/04/11 The Republican and the Penny Stock
11/04/08 They Chose WHO to Look Out for the Water Your Children Drink
11/04/07 I'm In
11/04/06 Are You In?
11/04/05 Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
11/04/04 User Friendly Technology
11/04/01 Child Labor
11/03/31 Crocs Now, Too?
11/03/30 Robert Is Here
11/03/29 Evolution
11/03/28 Gandhi and Corporate Taxation
11/03/25 I Get A New Toy
11/03/24 Give 'Em Hell, Frances!
11/03/23 Frances Perkins Was Having Tea . . .
11/03/22 Erica Payne's Good Question
11/03/21 Caveat Investor
11/03/18 Weekend Watching
11/03/17 Banks V. Homeowners
11/03/16 Watch These Four Segments
11/03/15 Half Staff
11/03/14 Half Staff
11/03/11 Priorities
11/03/10 Here! Here! Here!
11/03/09 Report To Your Post; You've Been Reinstated
11/03/08 Surowiecki on the Central Debate
11/03/07 Krugman on the Central Debate
11/03/04 Venison
11/03/03 The Conservative Light
11/03/02 If Abe Lincoln Started a Chicken Sandwich Business
11/03/01 Paper Money, Paper Plates - China
11/02/28 You Never Promised Me A Sculpture Garden
11/02/25 "Shut Up," He Explained
11/02/24 The Ultimate Koch Machine
11/02/23 The Kochs . . . DCTH . . .
11/02/22 Soap Kitchen
11/02/21 Live Forever
11/02/18 CVV Worth $17.08?
11/02/17 Hungry Doggerel
11/02/16 What's Six Times Seven?
11/02/15 CBRX
11/02/14 Quiet Subtle Ways
11/02/11 If Ike Had Had Two Moms
11/02/10 Fixing The Senate
11/02/09 Barney Frank and Ron Paul
11/02/08 Gold
11/02/07 How To Write A Condolence Letter
11/02/04 Farewell
11/02/02 Sell! Hold! Sneeze!
11/02/03 Sell!
11/02/01 The Happy Gene
11/01/31 Two Videos
11/01/28 Blah, Blah, Blah
11/01/27 Evernote
11/01/26 State of the Union
11/01/25 Tonight
11/01/24 VVUS
11/01/21 The Dream Lives On
11/01/20 Less and I Make a Bet
11/01/19 Tracking Numbers
11/01/18 Of Taxes And Street Sweepers
11/01/14 Nutrition and Diversity Make for a 79% Gain
11/01/13 Four Mutual Funds
11/01/12 Love In the Time of the Revolutionary War
11/01/11 Experiment
11/01/10 Phone Free
11/01/07 What They're Not Telling You
11/01/06 Historical Footnote
11/01/05 YOUR Book
11/01/04 Government CAN Work
11/01/03 The Codicil
10/12/30 Progress
10/12/29 Common Ground, Uncommon Reader
10/12/28 Sam and Martha
10/12/27 Progress
10/12/24 Joy to the World
10/12/23 Do You Have Lots of Money?
10/12/22 Thoughts On Exceptionalism
10/12/21 Oh, My
10/12/20 Praise, Thank, Cheer, Boo, Buy . . .
10/12/17 December 17
10/12/16 Jefferson, Madison, and Balance
10/12/15 Price War!
10/12/14 Tax Cuts
10/12/13 Scroll Down
10/12/10 Your Own Virtual Telescope (Free!)
10/12/09 Meet Me At The Museum
10/12/07 Well, AFOP Was Up
10/12/08 Watch
10/12/06 Speeches
10/12/03 LED Stocking Stuffer
10/12/02 Playing Chicken
10/12/01 Yesterday
10/11/30 If Your TiVo Malfunctioned
10/11/29 A Better Direction
10/11/26 Dangerous Inequality
10/11/24 They Reject, You Decide
10/11/23 "Arthur - It's Your Mother"
10/11/22 We're Number Eleven
10/11/21 We're Number Eleven
10/11/19 Choose Your Goal:
10/11/18 Buffett, Buick, Boehner
10/11/17 Pin the Debt on the Donkey
10/11/16 Two Views From Canada
10/11/15 Balance the Budget, Learn More About Gas
10/11/12 Hyperbole
10/11/11 Deficit Reduction
10/11/10 CRME Might Or Might Not Pay
10/11/09 New v. Small
10/11/08 A Republican Who Should Be Ashamed
10/11/05 The Retirement Home
10/11/04 Six Weeks' Paid Vacation
10/11/03 All 17 Newspaper Editorial Boards
10/11/02 Vote, Please
10/11/01 Working Together
10/10/29 Are We Really Going To Make This Mistake Again?
10/10/28 Is Tom Friedman An Elitist?
10/10/27 No, Elite, 30 Seconds
10/10/26 Warlike, Snarky, and Holding My EMIS
10/10/25 Reasons to Vote Republican
10/10/22 I Voted Yesterday
10/10/21 Not Nothing
10/10/20 Watch This (and This!)
10/10/19 Healthy Progress Toward Open Service
10/10/18 Progress
10/10/15 Economic Progress In YOUR Zip Code
10/10/14 Ooma, DEPO . . . Fired UP!
10/10/13 Verizon Part 2
10/10/12 The Phones Don't Work, But At Least The ATMs Do
10/10/11 Wall Street Money Never Sleeps On Columbus Day
10/10/08 Mexican Bonds
10/10/07 Georgia Works, Bonds Peak
10/10/06 The Tide Begins To Turn
10/10/05 Due Diligence, Undue Influence, and 20% In a Month
10/10/04 Running The World
10/10/01 Positively Thrilling
10/09/30 Scalia Examined
10/09/29 The Rich Get Richer
10/09/28 Accomplishments To Be Proud Of
10/09/27 Linda v. Ben
10/09/24 That's Some Pledge
10/09/23 Imagine Peace
10/09/22 Molluskation
10/09/21 Bill Clinton on Jobs
10/09/20 Charlie Munger
10/09/17 The Job Creators
10/09/16 Venture Capital
10/09/15 Be Happy
10/09/14 House Rules
10/09/13 Organizing for Your iPhone
10/09/10 Confidence and Taxes
10/09/09 Plouffe Lays It Out
10/09/08 Maine and Indiana
10/09/07 Joe Biden Makes the Case
10/09/03 The Perfect Energy Source
10/09/02 Forward or Backward
10/09/01 "Turn It Off!"
10/08/31 Feeling Lucky?
10/08/30 Dog Day Afternoon
10/08/27 Swarthmore? Really?
10/08/26 There - I Fixed It
10/08/25 Surpluses As Far As The Eye Can See
10/08/24 Raise Your Vote
10/08/23 When An LED Investment Can Pay Off
10/08/20 Fox
10/08/19 YERT
10/08/18 Wing Nuts
10/08/17 Shucked Husk Biofractionators
10/08/16 Pavement To Charge Up My Volt
10/08/13 Wing Nuts
10/08/12 ETFs
10/08/11 Must-See Pavement TV
10/08/10 Cheez Doodles
10/08/09 Matt Miller's Great Idea
10/08/06 Ironic Quotes from 1933, 1934, and 1963
10/08/05 Liberty and Justice
10/08/04 We're Coming Back
10/08/03 August Is Happiness Happens Month
10/08/02 Your 2011 Tax Bill
10/07/30 I Don't Care. I Must Have an iPhone.
10/07/29 Waste Not Wal-Mart
10/07/28 Good News on Multiple Fronts
10/07/27 The FT View
10/07/26 Exhuming Simon Bolivar
10/07/23 Cooking Like a Stand-Up Guy
10/07/22 Let Me Know
10/07/21 There's Hope
10/07/20 The Well-Intentioned Right
10/07/19 Intelligent, Mad, Crazy, Sick, Better
10/07/16 A Retiring Senator, A Retiring Congressman
10/07/15 Good Day
10/07/14 Hooves In Place Of Tractors
10/07/13 Voters' Brains; Market Waves
10/07/12 Arizona, Massachusetts, And The Milky Way
10/07/71 Arizona, Massachusetts, And The Milky Way
10/07/09 Photo of the Day
10/07/08 Foiling Catastrophe
10/07/07 Run for the Hills!
10/07/06 Triple By-Pass Burgers
10/07/05 BOREF and DCTH
10/07/02 What a Waist
10/07/01 Singapore, Budapest and Virginia
10/06/07 Singapore, Budapest and Virginia
10/06/30 How to Peel a Carrot
10/06/29 The State of Maine
10/06/28 Ernie Banks
10/06/25 Casual Friday
10/06/24 Dilbert
10/06/23 Name That Tune
10/06/22 Ask-Notty
10/06/21 The Catastrophe
10/06/18 $225 Million
10/06/17 Odd Bits
10/06/16 7 Tax Cuts
10/06/15 Drying Your Digits
10/06/14 I Do
10/06/11 Ciao Bella!
10/06/10 Liberals for Deregulation
10/06/09 Marc's #10
10/06/08 Good Parenting
10/06/07 This, This, This, and This
10/06/04 Income at the 99.99th Percentile
10/06/03 10 Things About the Health Bill
10/06/02 Watching Sausage Get Made
10/06/01 Two Things
10/05/31 Two $4 Stocks
10/05/28 Antidisestablishmentlibertarianism
10/05/27 Data Loss in a Flash
10/05/26 Brave New World
10/05/25 A Kick-Ass $120,000 Ayn Rand Would Love
10/05/24 Rachel Does Rand
10/05/21 Mango Madness
10/05/20 You've Got Voice Mail
10/05/19 Getting Out of the Ditch
10/05/18 Our Expensive Roof
10/05/17 Let's Hear It
10/05/14 Country & Western
10/05/13 Damn Fools
10/05/12 You Spew 90 Million Tons, And What Do You Get?
10/05/11 Of Myths And Nose Wheels
10/05/10 Who Was Your Commencement Speaker?
10/05/07 Turbulence
10/05/06 $87,000 In Taxpayer Funds For THIS Expert?
10/05/05 Stand Up For Your Health
10/05/04 Paper Profits: Row With The Flow
10/05/03 Would You Let This Dog Into YOUR Restaurant?
10/04/30 Guru Is Annoyed
10/04/29 Wow. Whoa!
10/04/28 3500 Borealis 1700
10/04/27 Forgive Me - It's Good For Your Health
10/04/26 Vigorous Sudsing Action
10/04/23 Financial Reform
10/04/22 Earth Day
10/04/21 All The Important Food Groups for $2.99
10/04/20 Up and Down
10/04/19 11 Minutes
10/04/16 Back In 15 Minutes
10/04/15 Tax Day
10/04/14 Not All Eggrolls Are Chinese
10/04/13 Three Little Dots
10/04/12 Cocoa Nibs
10/04/09 Cap and Cash
10/04/08 May Day
10/04/07 He Liked Ike
10/04/06 Taxes
10/04/05 Watch Rachel
10/04/01 April Fun
10/03/31 Barney's Birthday
10/03/30 Free Vacuum Cleaners
10/03/29 Jeb Bush and Ben Stein
10/03/26 How To Fix Wall Street
10/03/25 Magic!
10/03/24 Crippled At Treasury
10/03/23 Health, Taxes, and Dignity
10/03/22 A Great Day for America
10/03/19 A Sea of Plastic
10/03/18 Much A-Deem About Nothing
10/03/17 O'Roadbed, O'Smartgrid, Ohare And O'Hara
10/03/16 ANOTHER Gay Column? Torture!
10/03/15 Fall Back, Spring Forward, Beware the Ides, Stock Up on Green Beer
10/03/12 Entrance . . . Entrance . . . Exit
10/03/11 How To Invest Your Last $10,000
10/03/10 As If You HAD Any Money Left You Could Truly Afford To Lose
10/03/09 Get Angry
10/03/08 An Important Difference
10/03/05 Which Would You Hire: An Inferior Man or A Superior Woman?
10/03/04 $285
10/03/03 Watch
10/03/02 Promises Kept
10/03/01 I Only Made $8.2 Million After Tax, Not $9.3 Milion
10/02/26 A Little Light Music
10/02/25 Cooking Like a (Third World) Guy
10/02/24 Vancouver V. Virginia
10/02/23 The Latest Debt Clock
10/02/22 Huge Good News
10/02/19 Can Two Lieutenants with Restless Leg Syndrome Get FDA Approval to Marry?
10/02/18 The Nuclear Option
10/02/17 Frugal Shrimp, Fruity Anti-angiogens
10/02/16 Governors
10/02/14 Up 58%
10/02/12 So I Asked Harry Reid . . .
10/02/11 Clip, Clip, Clip
10/02/10 Knowing Stuff
10/02/09 More China
10/02/08 Getting By on 7 Million Yuan
10/02/05 Civility
10/02/04 Demisemiquaver
10/02/03 The Greenbook To Get Out of the Red
10/02/02 The Grand Puzzle
10/02/01 Pilot Programs
10/01/29 Lean Years
10/01/28 Good Will and Intelligence
10/01/27 Semi-Circle, Semi-Conscious, Semi-Literate
10/01/26 Propaganda Works - And So Does the Italian Health Care System
10/01/25 Game Change; Get Tough; Sign a Petition
10/01/22 Oh, That Supreme Court
10/01/21 Tall Politicians
10/01/20 A Year After Inauguration
10/01/19 Vote for Martha
10/01/18 MLK, Jr.
10/01/15 Melting Your Gold Medal for Cash
10/01/14 Haiti
10/01/13 Inshmation
10/01/12 Lost Your iPhone?
10/01/11 I'm With The Conservative On This One
10/01/08 Report Cards and the CFPA
10/01/07 GPS
10/01/06 He Thought He Had a Smart Horse
10/01/05 Woof Woof! SugarSync!
10/01/04 One World
09/12/31 Happy New Year
99/12/31 Wishing You a Great New Year
09/12/30 Reasons Enough to Buy an iPhone
09/12/29 Moxie
09/12/28 Of Eggnog and Tax Strategy
09/12/24 Ho, Ho, Ho
09/12/23 Snow Day
09/12/22 Green China
09/12/21 Now I've Seen Everything
09/12/18 Uh, Oh - A Teux Deux Over Liberal Mangos
09/12/17 Pain
09/12/16 Sid - Get the Book
09/12/15 Three Cheers for Hope
09/12/14 Big Stuff
09/12/11 War and Peace
09/12/10 Bruuuuce!
09/12/09 Jack, George - We Barely Knew Ye
09/12/08 Cheap Sleep
09/12/07 The Ultimate In Readability
09/12/04 Do Blinking Web Ads Annoy You?
09/12/03 Optimism
09/12/02 So Far, So Good
09/12/01 Now They Tell Me
09/11/30 Hamsters -> Scanner -> Torts -> Sawmill Foreman
09/11/27 The Frugal Heiress
09/11/26 The Frugal Heiress
09/11/25 We Have Hot Water!
09/11/24 Goats
09/11/23 Give It Up for Chaz
09/11/20 Citizens for Apple Pie and Motherhood
09/11/19 A Gibbon and Two Tigers Walk Into a Barcode
09/11/18 More Than Just a Happy Orangutan
09/11/17 Plan B
09/11/16 Birds, Horses, and Faux News
09/11/13 Hope for Energy, Hope for Education
09/11/12 Your Electric Razor Is Soviet Missile Powered
09/11/11 Discourge Hate, Encourage Love?
09/11/10 Two Kinds of Saving
09/11/09 Of Health Care, Pomegranates, and Gold
09/11/06 Einhorn and Energy
09/11/05 Enjoy . . .
09/11/04 And the Winner Is . . .
09/11/03 $100 Trillion Over 20 Years
09/11/02 Appoplexy and Infusystems
09/10/30 Sober Stuff
09/10/29 A More Perfect Union; A Basket of Speculations
09/10/28 Rachel! Rachel!
09/10/27 Masks, Guns, and a Travel Tip
09/10/26 Clips
09/10/23 Masks, Chops, Fiddles, and More
09/10/22 Grab a Mop!
09/10/21 Testing Your G-IQ and Your HPI
09/10/20 Hope, Hope, Hurray!
09/10/19 Dead Peasants
09/10/16 High Notes
09/10/15 Rethinking Afghanistan
09/10/14 Paper, Puppets, and Pols
09/10/13 Marching in DC, Vibrating in Alabama
09/10/12 Our Space Station
09/10/09 More Light
09/10/08 Out of Little Turkish Acorns . . .
09/10/07 Avenue Q; Straight Shooting
09/10/06 Puppets
09/10/05 He's . . . JEWISH?
09/10/02 Friday Fun
09/10/01 Back to the Tea Party
09/09/30 I Stand Corrected!
09/09/29 I Didn't Mean YOU Are Misinformed
09/09/28 Pick Up The Pace
09/09/25 An Informed Citizenry
09/09/24 Bob Dole Again
09/09/23 Bulbs Assembled In China By Acrobikers
09/09/22 Planetary Good
09/09/21 If You Can't Trust Philip Morris With Your Health, Whom Can You Trust?
09/09/18 Pistol Packin' Progress, Praise the Lord
09/09/17 Drink Up - A Walkie Talkie Just Got Sucked Into the Engine
09/09/16 Tease Your Brain Into Buying a Boat - the Ultimate Element of Ruin
09/09/15 How Network News Fails Us
09/09/14 A 12-Year-Old's Massive Stroke
09/09/11 Tough Guys
09/09/10 Maybe It IS A Hammer
09/09/09 Stay In School, Kids: You'll Learn the Difference Between a Shovel and a Hammer
09/09/07 Oh, Grow Up
09/09/04 If Progress IS Slowing Down, You May Have 38 Seconds to Watch This Ad
09/09/03 Abou, Abas, Abat; Abamus, Abatus, Abant
09/09/02 A Place for Atheists in Heaven
09/09/01 Should M. Get a Divorce?
09/08/31 I Don't Get It
09/08/28 Genuine Compassion
09/08/27 Senator Kennedy
09/08/26 The Perfect Summary
09/08/25 Trailing Stops, Whiplash, and the Best College Professor You Ever Had
09/08/24 BZ Up Eightfold
09/08/21 Goats, Sheep, and Medicare
09/08/20 Bio-Insurance
09/08/19 Zucchini
09/08/18 A Workable Health Care Compromise?
09/08/17 Sustainable Living
09/08/14 Health Care Reality Check
09/08/13 Perverse Incentives
09/08/12 All Hail David Pogue
09/08/11 Three More Years! Three More Years!
09/08/10 Don't Miss This Maddow
09/08/07 Check THIS Out
09/08/06 Cooking Like a Hun
09/08/05 Worried - But Enjoying It
09/08/04 Common Cement, Engine Block Burgers . . .
09/08/03 A Christian, a Muslim, and an Atheist Walk Into a Bar Chart . . .
09/07/31 Sex Returns to Texas
09/07/30 Peanut Butter and Jelly
09/07/29 15 Seconds to Better Health Care
09/07/28 Exxon Goes Slimy, Opel Goes 113 Miles a Gallon
09/07/27 Four Takes on Health Care
09/07/24 Wal-Mart, Coke - and Glatfelter?
09/07/23 Coke, Almonds, Slime, 263 Horses and Torpidity
09/07/22 Oona
09/07/21 Trillions
09/07/20 Six Months
09/07/17 Two Speeches and a Movie
09/07/16 Two Congresspersons
09/07/15 Race to the Top
09/07/14 Join the Amazon Conservation Team
09/07/13 Stocks for the Long Run
09/07/10 Patrick Murphy's Video
09/07/09 Very Wow
09/07/08 Summer Fun
09/07/07 Health and Home
09/07/06 Videos
09/07/02 TKF and USA
09/07/01 An Unusual Performance By Tom Hanks
09/06/30 Pudding
09/06/29 "Listen," Mr. Mixner said . . .
09/06/26 Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
09/06/25 Arousing My Albedo
09/06/24 On Health Care, Windmills and Marriage
09/06/23 Me and My Zamboni
09/06/22 Strike the Band Up
09/06/19 Roses Are Red, Daisies Are Cheap
09/06/18 Frank Kameny
09/06/17 Not Sistine - But Pretty Cool
09/06/16 The New Frugality
09/06/15 Clunker
09/06/12 At Least We Should Try
09/06/11 This Bus Is Getting Crowded
09/06/10 South Pacific
09/06/09 Earth 2100
09/06/08 What the Cairo Speech Has to Do with Your Money
09/06/05 Golf and History
09/06/04 Betty Bowers Bought a Bit of Biting Bible Babble
09/06/03 Closing Republican Dealerships
09/06/02 Plant a Tree, Coast to Red Lights
09/06/01 Oh, Boy
09/05/29 Now That's A Commencement Address
09/05/28 We've Put On 1,100 Pounds
09/05/27 Hypermiling
09/05/26 39 MPG
09/05/25 Rich on Rights; Gourevitch on Torture
09/05/22 Memorial Day Weekend
09/05/21 Oh, That Rumsfeld
09/05/20 Notre Dame
09/05/19 Top Tunes from 1958
09/05/18 A Gripping Tale of Mortgage Madness
09/05/15 Math
09/05/14 More Hope
09/05/13 If False Hope Is Self-Fulfilling IS It False?
09/05/12 Bullish John, Bearish John
09/05/11 Morality, Prayer, and Cornerstone Therapeutics
09/05/08 A Simple Path to a Perpetually Rising Market
09/05/07 Two Bathrooms
09/05/06 Hot Water Savers
09/05/05 Kurzweil: the Movie
09/05/04 Magic!
09/05/01 New
09/04/30 A Shower Head Even the Seinfeld Cast Could Live With
09/04/29 China, Coal, and Costa Rica
09/04/28 Mother Nature Doesn't Do Bailouts
09/04/27 Of Frogs and Cows
09/04/24 If We Were a Third World Country
09/04/23 Snails and Starfish
09/04/22 Vark
09/04/21 Try It: Either Elbow
09/04/20 Money Thoughts
09/04/17 Tax Protestors
09/04/16 The Really Big Picture
09/04/15 An Uplifting Song for Tax Day
09/04/14 Boozy Nine Year Olds Avoiding Estate Tax In West Branch Iowa
09/04/13 The Formula that Wrecked Wall Street
09/04/10 Black on Moyers
09/04/09 What Were These Democrats Thinking?
09/04/08 Live Longer
09/04/07 That Dutch Department Store
09/04/06 John Mauldin on "The Dow"
09/04/03 Kill-a-Watt Gadget; German Mortgages; the GOP Plan
09/04/02 Vertigo II
09/04/01 Vertigo
09/03/31 Hire a Sheepdog to Babysit Your Daughter?
09/03/30 A Cheap Way to Light Sheep
09/03/27 Perspective
09/03/26 Read Less to Know More
09/03/25 Supremely Confident Predictions
09/03/24 This Could Work
09/03/23 Tax, Spend, Borrow - And Win
09/03/20 Our Whiz Bang Future
09/03/19 Redefining Consistency
09/03/18 Earmarking Tax Brackets in Firefox
09/03/17 The Case Against Indexing
09/03/16 What Does Less Antman Have to Say NOW?
09/03/13 800-GOOG-411
09/03/12 The World May Not End
09/03/11 Four Minutes of Fun
09/03/10 Yesterday's Big News
09/03/09 6,500
09/03/06 The Loyal Opposition
09/03/05 INSUFFICIENT FUNDS
09/03/04 Getting Fit
09/03/03 Money, PAC Money
09/03/02 Simply Put
09/02/27 Newt, Newt, Newt
09/02/26 The Third Interstate Highway System
09/02/25 "Slowly, But Surely, Confidence Will Return . . .
09/02/24 Less Stuff
09/02/23 Schwarzenegger's Leadership
09/02/20 A Little Love; A Little Nicotine
09/02/19 Good News!
09/02/18 Loonie Aussie Innumerate Insurgencies
09/02/17 See or Read the Simon Johnson Interview
09/02/16 Cognitive Decline: No Longer Inevitable?
09/02/13 Gnome
09/02/12 Your Own Local Phone Number in New York
09/02/11 Jitterbug!
09/02/10 Listen to the President
09/02/09 This Column Only Seems Short
09/02/06 The Stimulus Package
09/02/05 Fair Questions
09/02/04 Rock Stars
09/02/03 Throw a House Party to Cover Australia in Photovoltaic Film
09/02/02 Enter Your Zip Code to Volunteer
09/01/30 YouTube Goes Interactive
09/01/29 Ah, The Black Irish
09/01/28 Young Love
09/01/27 Playing Tennis At 90
09/01/26 Rush Limbaugh Makes No Bones About It
09/01/23 Odds, Ends
09/01/22 Oops
09/01/20 The Whole World Is Watching
09/01/16 If Your Drinking Buddy Clocks You With a Sirius Satellite Radio On Your 69th Birthday
09/01/15 More on Surgical Checklists
09/01/14 Free Hindsight - THIS LOOPHOLE HAS BEEN CLOSED
09/01/13 You Have an Important Call Coming In
09/01/12 Barbells for our Banker
09/01/09 Somewhere . . .
09/01/08 Two Can Live Cheaper Than One - And May Have To
09/01/07 Huck Finn Converts to a Roth IRA
09/01/06 Huck Finn
09/01/05 Sell RSW, SDS, and Maybe Even TBT
09/01/02 Mud, Wind, and Irony
08/12/31 Footnotes and Dazzle
08/12/30 TBT
08/12/29 The Big Picture
08/12/26 With a Song in Your Heart
08/12/24 Chestnuts . . .
08/12/23 Melissa Etheridge, Rick Warren, and Common Sense
08/12/22 The Invocation - Part II
08/12/19 Self-Promotion Run Wild
08/12/18 Well, You Asked
08/12/17 Hmmmm
08/12/16 Does Religion Turn You Rotten?
08/12/15 Four Terrific Movies Meet One Terrific Economic Crisis
08/12/12 HBS Pushes the Envelope
08/12/11 Watch Jon Stewart
08/12/10 Can the Market Go to Zero?
08/12/09 A Sardine Recipe Even I Wouldn't Try
08/12/08 A Three-Minute Musical
08/12/05 Troops and a Movie
08/12/04 Free Markets
08/12/03 Mr. Market Miscalculates
08/12/02 Milk and Money
08/12/01 Vivace
08/11/28 5-Year TIPS
08/11/25 Flying Carpets Again
08/11/26 Flying Carpets Again
08/11/24 Watch the Radio Address
08/11/21 The Really Important Thing
08/11/20 Dress for Duress
08/11/19 I Got Nothing
08/11/18 Getting Back to Finance for a Minute
08/11/17 Chicago
08/11/14 Michael Lewis Explains It All
08/11/13 This One
08/11/12 $ 1975 $
08/11/11 Love and Money
08/11/10 Building a Different White House
08/11/07 I Still Can't Get Over It
08/11/06 Hope Won
08/11/05 Thank You
08/11/04 Election Day
08/11/03 Say, "Ah-merica"
08/10/31 Teddy Roosevelt for Obama
08/10/30 To Your Health
08/10/29 A Schoolmate Remembers Senator McCain
08/10/28 The NeoCon and the Norwegian Newlywed
08/10/27 One-Party Rule
08/10/24 Ron Howard Is Bald!
08/10/23 Yesterday
08/10/22 Religion
08/10/21 The McCains Gave Less to Charity Than The Obamas
08/10/20 What Does It Say?
08/10/17 McLame
08/10/16 Voices
08/10/15 Way Foolish
08/10/14 16% - 121% - 30% - 75%
08/10/13 Three Months Ahead of Schedule
08/10/10 Hey, Greed -- Suit Up!
08/10/09 Temperament
08/10/08 Watch It
08/10/07 Prongs
08/10/06 It’s Not That They Don’t Care
08/10/03 Buffett and Borealis
08/10/02 A Quick Way to Be Sure You're Registered
08/10/01 Another Republican for Obama
08/09/30 Your Chances of Getting the Flu
08/09/29 Senator McCain; Paul Newman
08/09/26 Sarah Clips - And Advice For Living
08/09/25 Lipstick
08/09/24 How We Got Here
08/09/23 TV Ads
08/09/22 Say,
08/09/19 BAM! POW! THWACK! OOF!
08/09/18 The Financial Mess
08/09/17 Four More Wars! Four More Wars!
08/09/16 Ready toTake the World Stage on a Moment's Notice
08/09/15 Hidden Strength; Hidden Weakness
08/09/12 The Big Picture
08/09/11 Apology
08/09/10 Free Video Clips, Expensive T-Shirts
08/09/09 Not Shouting Fire on a Largely Deserted Street
08/09/08 The Polar Bears Are In Hot Water
08/09/05 How Much Life Insurance Would the McCains' 35-Year-Old Son Need (If They HAD a 35-Year-Old Son and If He Had One Infant Child and Had Converted His GLDD Warrants Into Stock)?
08/09/04 Savings Bond Calculator
08/09/03 National Security
08/09/02 The Real McCain
08/08/29 How Did Warren Buffett Get So Rich?
08/08/28 More Amazing Speeches
08/08/27 Amazing Speeches
08/08/26 Sorry: Down Is NOT Up
08/08/25 Get Out of Jail Free
08/08/22 100% Disability
08/08/21 YOU Have MY Vote
08/08/20 Bullish on America . . . But Not for a While
08/08/19 Louis Vuitton, Charles Nolan, and Chanel
08/08/18 Six Minutes
08/08/15 A Video You Must See
08/08/14 Hiding in His Office to Avoid a Vote
08/08/13 7.5%
08/08/12 Fight Fiercely, Harvard!
08/08/11 Why?
08/08/08 The Dog Ate My Prestidigitation
08/08/07 Oy.
08/08/06 That $490 Billion Budget Deficit
08/08/05 A Peck of Pickens Peppers
08/08/04 Hugely Good News for Humans
08/08/01 The Media Are Failing Us
08/07/31 NRDC Recycling Tips
08/07/30 Stuff
08/07/29 The Answer, My Friend?
08/07/28 Smart Financial Advice
08/07/25 From Kabul to Kansas
08/07/24 Foreign Affairs Isn’t His Strong Suit, Either
08/07/23 Above the Clouds
08/07/22 McCain Would Raise Your Taxes
08/07/21 Optimism, Hope, Gore . . . and the Washington Times on McCain
08/07/18 The Transformative Decade
08/07/17 And THAT Man's a DOCTOR!
08/07/16 Phoning for 2 Cents a Minute Instead of $3.49
08/07/15 What About $$$ You CAN'T Afford to Lose?
08/07/14 Here We Go Again
08/07/11 Not a Slurpee Drinker Myself, But . . .
08/07/10 Bubbles
08/07/09 Sally and the Surge; SYMS and a Hiss
08/07/08 Cheer Up! Soon I'll Be Able to Enlist
08/07/07 Touring the Devastation
08/07/03 Clay
08/07/02 $$$$$
08/07/01 Not Good Enough
08/06/30 If At First . . .
08/06/27 Today . . .
08/06/26 Pediatrics and Politics
08/06/25 Eisenhowers for Obama
08/06/24 Yankee Ingenuity
08/06/23 Better Things for Better Living...Through Chemistry
08/06/20 96 Barrels of Beer on the Wall
08/06/19 The Enron Connection to $135 Oil
08/06/18 By the Power Vested in Me . . .
08/06/17 Bullish on America
08/06/16 Let's Go Viral
08/06/13 Lost
08/06/12 Farming Wind
08/06/11 18 Million Cracks
08/06/10 Bar Bets You Can Win
08/06/09 It's Not All Bad News
08/06/06 What Ketchup and a Map of the United States Have in Common
08/06/05 Why Chlorinate Your Pool When You Can Grow Algae in It?
08/06/04 Anger Management
08/06/03 Winning Bar Bets
08/06/02 Three-Minute Video (and What You DIDN'T See on TV)
08/05/30 Fundraising Letters to Look Forward To
08/05/29 Quit Smoking, Brush Your Teeth, Pay Off Your Credit Cards
08/05/28 Honest Tea and Straight Talk
08/05/27 Hope for Energy Efficiency - and Perhaps Even for FMD
08/05/23 How Borealis Could Save the World
08/05/22 Little Corporate Dishonesties
08/05/21 We Do A Lot of Good Things in the World
08/05/20 Snippets from the End of the World
08/05/19 You Just Never Know
08/05/16 So Sayeth the (California) Supreme Court
08/05/15 Dick Cheney Has Better Health Insurance than You
08/05/14 Inflate, Investigate, Instigate
08/05/13 Tuesday, Bluesday
08/05/12 Viewer Discretion Advised
08/05/09 The K Street Express
08/05/08 The True Inflation and Unemployment Rates
08/05/07 This Man Gets on a Bus . . .
08/05/06 Cake
08/05/05 Fun / Not Fun
08/05/02 Putting the Con in Economics
08/05/01 May Day! May Day!
08/04/30 SPACs
08/04/29 There May Be Hope Yet
08/04/28 Allocating Among Vanguard Funds
08/04/25 Money and Politics
08/04/24 The Debt; The Race
08/04/23 Goose Bumps
08/04/22 The Court, Our Debt
08/04/21 I'd Vote For You First, But Then For Someone Who Could WIN
08/04/18 Filling Your Tank for Just $2 Someday
08/04/17 BOREF, GLDD, RSW, COFFEE, OPERA - AND VOTING
08/04/16 Equality
08/04/15 Food
08/04/14 Energy
08/04/11 Volunteer
08/04/10 Customer Service
08/04/09 FMD and Senator McCain's Finance Guru
08/04/08 A Night On Safari at the Opera with Your Chumby and Your Jungle Disk
08/04/07 But Can an Elephant Rebalance Asset Classes?
08/04/04 Pachyderm or Picasso?
08/04/03 Well, I Sure Got My Money's Worth Out of THIS Sunday's New York Times
08/04/02 Finally: A Liar to Admire
08/04/01 April 1
08/03/31 And How, Exactly, Will Living in a Cave Help?
08/03/28 Dazzling Digital Deals
08/03/27 An Orange Juice Tanker Hit Our Barge
08/03/26 If the Taiwanese Go Nuclear, We Could Send in the British Navy
08/03/25 Will These Sites Suit?
08/03/24 Make Widgets, Not Warships
08/03/21 A Very Funny Clip
08/03/20 My Fourth iPhone
08/03/19 How Bad? How Long?
08/03/18 The Will of the People
08/03/17 How Superdelegates Should Vote
08/03/14 The Biggest Threat We Face
08/03/13 Chickens Flying In From All Points
08/03/12 Superpowers, Nose Rings, and Buddhism
08/03/11 There Is A Pattern Here
08/03/10 Nervous, Yes; Gorgonized - Never!
08/03/07 Ah, the Smell of Carbon Paper in the Morning
08/03/06 The Rules Rule
08/03/05 Tips and Dips
08/03/04 Less Than Zero
08/03/03 The WB
08/02/29 It's Leap Year -- Take the Day Off
08/02/28 TXCO, ACAI, CZAR, WFBJ
08/02/27 Why You Have to Be 18 to Vote
08/02/26 Acquitted in Under Two Hours
08/02/25 Nader, McCain, and Rove
08/02/22 Three Good Ideas
08/02/21 18 Years Shacked Up with the Birds and the Bees
08/02/20 Now, That's One Hot Grain of Sand
08/02/19 This Can't Be Good
08/02/18 This Can't Be Good
08/02/15 The Check List and the Commish
08/02/14 Landing Gear Down - Check; Hands Washed - Check
08/02/13 The Life-Saving Checklist
08/02/12 Superdelegates - Click the Link
08/02/11 If the World IS Ending, Why Not Visit Paradise?
08/02/08 One Republican Grandfather's View
08/02/07 Good News, Bad News, Smartypants
08/02/06 Seeing the Sunshine
08/02/05 The Recycled Industrial Mesh that Holds Up Our Pouf
08/01/05 The Recycled Industrial Mesh that Holds Up Our Pouf
08/02/04 Super Bowl, Super Tuesday
08/02/01 Your Two Cents on My Two Cents
08/01/31 Read This
08/01/30 One Thin Dime
08/01/29 If I Were a Rich Man - AII dil AII dil AII dil AII dil AII dil AII dil AII dil d'AII
08/01/28 Go Dutch, Save Money
08/01/25 Another Survey
08/01/24 Is That Guacamole on Your Face or Are You Just Green with Envy?
08/01/23 Take My Survey -- Please!
08/01/22 Cucumbers
08/01/21 Happy Birthday, Reverend
08/01/18 Remember Bidil?
08/01/17 Simulating a Florida Primary
08/01/16 If We're Not Real, Why NOT Give Everyone Health Insurance?
08/01/15 Snow Day
08/01/14 And Here You Thought You Were Real
08/01/11 Checking on Your Mutual Fund with Your iPhone from Costa Rica
08/01/10 My Politics in 30 Seconds
08/01/09 Dealing with the Stress of the Strike
08/01/08 I'm Radioactive!
08/01/07 Winning the Popular Vote
08/01/04 Kristol, Krugman, Sex, Etc.
08/01/03 20 Financial Predictions
08/01/02 Happy New Year!
07/12/31 Bill Joy to the World: The Downside of Technology
07/12/28 Give Mama a Llama
07/12/27 Sunshine
07/12/24 A Christmas Eve Message
07/12/21 The 140-Degree Latte
07/12/20 They Hate That
07/12/19 Chickens Coming Home to Roost on Spaceship Earth
07/12/18 A Grand Time to Make $1 Billion Teaching Computers to Write Software
07/12/17 More Kurzweil
07/12/14 Oh, Boy
07/12/13 The Genius of Dual Flush
07/12/12 The Earth Has a Fever
07/12/11 Buy a Cactus
07/12/10 2011 Is Right Around the Corner
07/12/07 FMD Changing Symbol to UGH
07/12/06 What Was THAT? !
07/12/05 Mozy
07/12/04 Solutions
07/12/03 Anti-Symantecism
07/11/30 Lights Out
07/11/29 Symantec
07/11/28 Obit
07/11/27 Of Borrowers, Lenders, and 6,000 Applicants for 300 Unskilled Jobs
07/11/26 If the Bank Fails, We Could Always Open a Restaurant
07/11/23 A New Spaculation
07/11/21 TG
07/11/20 Healthy, Wealthy, and With It
07/11/19 A Clip You Should Watch to Save the World - With Hats
07/11/16 Drive Smart and Social Security Will Be There When You Retire
07/11/15 Green Laptops and the Unbox
07/11/14 Tom Brokaw And Warren Buffett Write Today’s Column
07/11/13 Smart Cars to Drive in Palm Beach
07/11/12 Mint, Green, and Purple
07/11/09 Willkommen, Bienvenue, Welcome
07/11/08 WaMu, Citi, and Chase
07/11/07 American Business At Its Best
07/11/06 Lenovo Recommends Vista - II
07/11/05 Why We're In Iraq But You Should See Bee Movie Anyway
07/11/02 Our Less-Than-AAA Rating Agencies
07/11/01 High Interest Checking and a Super Yield Money Market Account
07/10/31 With His Severance, ex-CEO Could Buy Four BOREF's
07/10/30 Who Got Merrill's $8.4 Billion?
07/10/29 Big Ifs
07/10/26 A $100 Investment for Your Kids
07/10/25 A Good Day
07/10/24 Finally -- Something Not Boring
07/10/23 Welcome!
07/10/22 Boring!
07/10/19 Mud, Paper -- "Not Dollars" -- and Ambulatory Infusion Pumps
07/10/18 The Most Boring Column I Ever Wrote
07/10/17 Napping
07/10/16 It May Be HAPNing
07/10/15 20 Calories Per Serving
07/10/12 What Have We Done?
07/10/11 Getting Mine
07/10/10 Apple's Insensitivity (and Other Dating Tips)
07/10/09 Design Your Own Pet
07/10/08 For What Purpose Does the Gentlelady Rise?
07/10/05 Whizzing Past Security
07/10/04 Optimism
07/10/03 The Soul of Capitalism
07/10/02 Your Commitment
07/10/01 Tough Year/s Ahead
07/09/28 More Napping
07/09/27 Just Nap for Two Weeks
07/09/26 Competition, Junk Mail, and Condos
07/09/25 I Am an Idiot
07/09/24 The 400
07/09/21 Legalize Wal-Mart
07/09/20 Thanks, Mayor
07/09/19 Stocks Up, Times Free, Sheik Fake
07/09/18 Who ARE These Other 4 Billion People?
07/09/17 Hoping for a Salad Spinner
07/09/14 Scarred for Life by Friendly's Merger
07/09/13 Don't Sell
07/09/12 Reason Enough
07/09/11 Cantango!
07/09/10 First Mud, Now Paper
07/09/07 Rudy Video and More
07/09/06 Money Angles and Disposable Cups
07/09/05 Commodity Funds; Gonzales and Rove
07/09/03 The Easter Bunny, The Planet, Warrants and Student Loans
07/08/31 Eggplant And Asperger’s
07/08/30 Eggplant And Asperger's
07/08/29 Worst Hotel -- Part Deux
07/08/28 Fear of Cheesecake
07/08/27 The Worst!
07/08/24 A TSA Screener Responds
07/08/23 Magically Making Crest Disappear
07/08/22 View from Boots on the Ground
07/08/21 Carpooligans
07/08/20 Lower, Less, Less
07/08/17 Should You Sell?
07/08/16 More Galbraith
07/08/15 Battery Life
07/08/14 Find Me, Mine Me, Grind Me
07/08/13 What to Sell? What to Sell?
07/08/10 A Dictatorial Police State
07/08/09 A Few Words About the French
07/08/08 Pretty Stamps
07/08/07 A Galbraith Quote You May Not Find in the Wall Street Journal
07/08/06 Back Pain from Forever Drilling Through Metasediment
07/08/03 Reading Grantham Could Give YOU Debilitating Back Pain
07/08/02 Imagine
07/08/01 Iran, Your Pool, My Tea
07/07/31 Boiling Eggs in Your Pool
07/07/30 Purple America
07/07/27 Lots to See and Read This Weekend
07/07/26 Young At Heart?
07/07/25 Airplane 2
07/07/24 Falling Behind the French
07/07/23 If We Don't Nuke Iran, We Could Nuke Your Pool
07/07/20 Did He Shoot California in the Face, Too?
07/07/19 Roosevelt, Vitter, & Bartlet
07/07/18 Everyone Into the (Impeachment) Pool
07/07/17 Wealthy, Healthy, and Wise
07/07/16 8.5 Stars, $8.50 a Share
07/07/13 Serge Protectors
07/07/12 Chlibby
07/07/11 (Burn) This Old House
07/07/10 SiCKER
07/07/09 I'm Hurt! Call a Clerk!
07/07/06 Live!
07/07/05 Libby-rated
07/07/03 Up, Up and Away!
07/07/02 Which Finger Would You Reattach?
07/06/29 Sex and the CFL
07/06/28 Ask Not Watt Your Country Can Do for You
07/06/27 WiFi Make You Itch?
07/06/26 Can Openers
07/06/25 I'm Back
07/06/21 Isn't Life Wonderful?
07/06/20 Alison - At Last
07/06/19 People's Stories About Their Health Insurance
07/06/18 People's Stories
07/06/15 Four DON'Ts and a Bomb
07/06/14 Bob Barr and Jon Stewart Agree
07/06/13 Save 45% Even If You're Not Speaking to Each Other
07/06/12 Don’t Ask, Don’t Translate
07/06/11 The Iniquity of Inequity
07/06/08 Borealis Gets a Dividend
07/06/07 Fun and Games
07/06/06 Cauliflower and Your Prostate
07/06/05 Iran and Your Prostate
07/06/04 The Boy with Spiders Living in His Ear
07/06/01 Hanging Teenagers
07/05/31 This Bank Will Throw Your Dog a Bone
07/05/30 The Pinchot Retirement Program
07/05/29 Iran, Iraq, Irat; Iranus, Iraqus, I Rant
07/05/25 Views
07/05/24 Flashlights to the Amazon
07/05/23 Time to Pay Attention
07/05/22 Like Father Like Son
07/05/21 WATCH The Plane Move
07/05/18 Whoop! Whoop! Whoop!
07/05/17 These Six Year Olds Wear Ties
07/05/16 Winning In Iraq and Fort Lauderdale
07/05/15 1.8 Million Species, But a Single Stamp
07/05/14 Listen to the General
07/05/11 A Graduation Day Gift
07/05/10 I Miss You!
07/05/09 Or You Could Buy Mom Some $3 Gas
07/05/08 Yet More o' Borealis
07/05/07 Borealis, Mud, and Cauliflower
07/05/04 Forty-One Years
07/05/03 A Boy Named Sue
07/05/02 Road Trip!
07/05/01 May Day
07/04/30 Randy and George
07/04/27 Really Good
07/04/26 Moolah
07/04/25 Be Your Own Little Credit Card Company?
07/04/24 Your Fleks; Your Pooch
07/04/23 Sprint Mobile Cards
07/04/20 Long Weekend
07/04/19 We Are Now!
07/04/18 Three Quick Ones
07/04/17 Good News, Bad News
07/04/16 Who's Running the Show
07/04/13 Friday the 13th -- A Terrible Day To Do Your Taxes
07/04/12 1274 Pages, Unabridged
07/04/11 Two Things
07/04/10 My Turn
07/04/09 Which Would You Choose: Love or Country?
07/04/06 Mitt and Mawidge
07/04/05 Rolling through Baylor with the East German Secret Police
07/04/04 The Difference Is Day and Night
07/04/03 Citizenship
07/04/02 News From All Over
07/03/30 Might 4,000 Planes Move?
07/03/29 Net Magic
07/03/28 Watch!
07/03/27 The Forever Stamp
07/03/26 YouTube Without The Cr*p
07/03/23 Good Deal on a Country Club Membership
07/03/22 I Can Still Smell That Wonder Bread
07/03/21 When It Comes to Elections, These Guys Are Tough
07/03/20 Israel, Interest Rates, and Absurdistan
07/03/17 Those U.S. Attorneys (and TXCO and Designer Babies)
07/03/16 Unintended Consequences
07/03/15 Bite By Bite
07/03/14 Magic Tweak and a Case for (Some) Cash
07/03/13 Two Civil Wars (One Fictional)
07/03/12 Trust Your Common Sense
07/03/09 Magic
07/03/08 You Give This Video 6 Minutes, It'll Give You the Next 40 years
07/03/07 Er, Er, Costa Rica and Iran
07/03/06 Big Cities
07/03/05 Two Movies, One Hero, A Book, and an Idiot
07/03/02 Barbs, Barbara, and Borealis
07/03/01 The Per Diems Will Last Longer If You Don't Smoke in Iraq
07/02/28 Oops
07/02/27 Budget Priorities
07/02/26 The Words from Wyoming and Minnesota
07/02/23 One Continent Down . . .
07/02/22 Don't Sell
07/02/20 Don't Lick the Toads
07/02/16 From Lincoln to Lettuce to Lamb
07/02/15 Patience
07/02/14 No More Lightbulbs
07/02/13 Borealis Sends a Demon Boy to Warn Me
07/02/12 Abe
07/02/09 1001 Horsepower - I Want One!
07/02/08 A Road to Peace
07/02/07 More Free Food
07/02/06 Free Shishkabob at the Hilton
07/02/05 The . . . The . . . The . . .
07/02/02 Malcolm, Morgan, Joseph, Molly, Keith
07/02/01 Molly
07/01/31 Straight Talk About Tea and College Aid
07/01/30 From Minimum Wage to the Wall Street Journal
07/01/29 Strategy and Chocolate
07/01/26 More Hope for Earth
07/01/25 A Brighter Day
07/01/24 Loco
07/01/23 Yes, MORE About CFLs - And Here's Why
07/01/22 Annoying Books
07/01/19 A Great Idea
07/01/18 The Anonymous Company Spokesman
07/01/17 Four Minutes on Al-Jazeera
07/01/16 This Rabbi Walks Into a Bar
07/01/15 Doing My Taxes
07/01/12 Beating the Market, Shattering Your Hand, Saving on Diamonds
07/01/11 IIfx, CFL, WMT, FMD, FWIW
07/01/10 Yummy, Honey
07/01/09 The Hertz Lady, the Apocalypse, and $2.06 for Your Warrants
07/01/08 The President Would Be More Effective If He Stopped Making Things Up
07/01/05 The Hertz Lady
07/01/04 And Yet Maybe They Shouldn't Recycle It Into Napkins
07/01/03 The Quarter-Billion Dollar War Games We Ignored
07/01/02 Betavacation
06/12/29 Chocolate Diet Coke
06/12/28 $30 to Buy Better Bulbs
06/12/27 Pet Stains, Exploding Light Bulbs, and Immortality
06/12/26 Hope You Had a Great Christmas
06/12/22 It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas
06/12/21 More Light
06/12/20 Stanley Gets His Steemer to the 11th Floor
06/12/19 Sorry; We're Closed
06/12/18 We're All In the Top 40%
06/12/15 How To Invest Your Money
06/12/14 Snow Day!
06/12/13 Chile
06/12/12 Why This Column May Look Messy
06/12/11 It's Not the Dogs' Fault
06/12/08 Name This Column
06/12/07 Leaving Sticky Notes for Your Kidnappers
06/12/06 Polonium 210, FMD 53
06/12/05 Party On!
06/12/04 Topless Women
06/12/01 Kuo
06/11/30 Google on Your Cell Phone
06/11/29 Michael Moore, Sy Hersh, Ted Koppel
06/11/28 Ben Stein Gets It Right
06/11/27 Dirty Dancing
06/11/24 Burp
06/11/22 Thanksgiving
06/11/21 Figs, Blimps, and Borealis
06/11/20 Just How Rich Are You?
06/11/17 Say You Win the Lottery
06/11/16 Save a Fortune on Drugs
06/11/15 Now the Gypsies Are Suing Borat
06/11/14 Finally, Steve Forbes Has a Good Idea
06/11/13 Borat
06/11/10 More Hope
06/11/09 Lou Gehrig Eating Pumpkin Spice Muffins in a Blimp
06/11/08 :-)
06/11/07 Hope
06/11/06 Short Strokes
06/11/03 Give It Up for Dick Armey
06/11/02 Good Clean Fun
06/11/01 A Little Ribbing
06/10/31 Let's Dress Up as an Ambassador
06/10/30 Half a Brain
06/10/27 Short Films
06/10/26 The First 100 Hours
06/10/25 The Well-Exercised Brain Does Not Misdial For Boobies
06/10/24 Is There's More Than One Of You, Can You Vote Twice?
06/10/23 How Much Sex Can You HAVE for $1.25?
06/10/20 The Market, the Meanness, and the Magic
06/10/19 Magic in a Microwave
06/10/18 Leverage and Loverage
06/10/17 It Was One of You Who Invented the Bleep
06/10/16 Hope Is on the Way
06/10/13 North Korea
06/10/12 Apocalypse Now
06/10/11 From Buffett to Borealis
06/10/10 More Must See TV
06/10/09 Chilled Fruit
06/10/06 -Half- As Good As Gold
06/10/05 On the Pews in Gander
06/10/04 From His Lips . . .
06/10/03 Morons
06/10/02 Pirates Attack Rome
06/09/29 Teach English in China Next Summer!
06/09/28 Bill's View
06/09/27 Inside
06/09/26 Democracy and Aldabra
06/09/25 Gas Prices
06/09/22 You Are Cordially Invited to Breakfast with Bishop Tutu, President Karzai and Queen Rania
06/09/21 My Sediments, Exactly
06/09/20 Is Your Brain Big Enough to Drive a Hydrogen Car?
06/09/19 Hey Kids: Stay in School and Don't Smoke
06/09/18 FMD, AK-47, and Balance
06/09/15 Independents Day
06/09/14 Your Spleen, My Spleen, We All Scream for . . .
06/09/13 Maps
06/09/12 Corrections
06/09/11 Jujitsu
06/09/08 Toothless Grin at the 18th Hole in Kabul
06/09/07 Earn Cash in Your Spare Time: Be a Poll Worker
06/09/06 On This Map, Almost All the States Are (in the) Red
06/09/05 Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld . . .
06/09/01 Better Coffee for a Labor Day Weekend
06/08/31 World's Deadliest Animal
06/08/30 Palestinian Self-Criticism
06/08/29 Once Again, A Positively Grand Time
06/08/28 Happy Planet
06/08/25 You'll Just Have to Feed the Hippo Something Else
06/08/24 MY Readers (and a Housing Note)
06/08/23 $2.42. Here - Take It
06/08/22 Electric Cars II
06/08/21 The Electric Car in Your Future
06/08/18 Hilton Internet Connection
06/08/17 It's WAY Broader than New Orleans
06/08/16 Natural Selection
06/08/15 Israel
06/08/14 But I Regress . . .
06/08/11 Back On Line
06/08/10 The Skinny from Two Real Estate Insiders
06/08/09 A Peculiar People
06/08/08 The Real Estate Recession - Ouch!
06/08/07 Cinnamon Tea and the 72 Vestal Virgins Who Await
06/08/04 Mr. Sabatin's Dunums
06/08/03 More Good Green News
06/08/02 Don't Sell Your Borealis
06/08/01 Lebanon
06/07/31 Walmart Goes Green
06/07/28 The Other Side of the Debate
06/07/27 Hot and Bothered
06/07/26 The Dog That Moos
06/07/25 We Got Stucco
06/07/24 Real Estate (Really)
06/07/21 Bob's Father Was An Ape
06/07/20 Billy Crystal on Global Climate Change
06/07/19 Underarm Deodorant
06/07/18 Inadvertant Andy Day
06/07/17 Your Slice of the Pie
06/07/14 Save July 29
06/07/13 One Other Movie
06/07/12 One More Movie and Frozen Peas
06/07/11 How My Cell Phone Battery Could Save Medicare $100 Billion
06/07/10 Extreme Cinema
06/07/07 A Constellation of Pies
06/07/06 Free Bumper Sticker, Your First-Class Dog
06/07/05 Give Me a Break (Through)
06/07/03 Let Freedom Ring
06/06/30 Good News and the Flag
06/06/29 Kathi Sees the Movie
06/06/28 Flag Burning
06/06/27 The Irony of the 1% Doctrine
06/06/26 A You-Tube, Two Stocks, and a Movie
06/06/23 Listen to the Poets of the Ocean
06/06/22 Merger!
06/06/21 Light Summer Reading
06/06/20 Create Your Own
06/06/19 Caffeine-Free Diet Coke? Are You Kidding?
06/06/16 See It Tonight
06/06/15 Honest Tea-V
06/06/14 Save $83,000 on Coffee
06/06/13 Loose Ends and Monkey Mail (Really)
06/06/12 Loose Ends and Monkey Mail
06/06/09 One Way We're Like Bulgarian Newlyweds
06/06/08 And Now THIS
06/06/07 Why Not Pull for These People?
06/06/06 More Monkey Mail
06/06/05 Two Inconvenient Truths
06/00/60 Two Inconvenient Truths
06/06/02 Marry Me?
06/06/01 The Tricycle MOVED
06/05/31 Sell Your Puts
06/05/30 The IQ of Bean Dip
06/05/26 Memorial Day
06/05/25 Seriously: See It
06/05/24 Scary Movie 5
06/05/23 Bogle Blog Bog Log Loge Ogle Gob Glob Gel Leg
06/05/22 Karl Rove Indicted Last Week?
06/05/19 Radioactive Bananas at the Center of the Earth
06/05/18 The Absolute Power of Bananas at the Center of the Earth
06/05/17 Treasure of the Sierra Madre
06/05/16 The Dancing Dean
06/05/15 One Cheer for Bananas, a Second for Shamos
06/05/12 Join the Chorus
06/05/11 Can You Tell Me Where the Camcorders Are?
06/05/10 Cutting through the Medicare Drug Thing
06/05/09 By Far the Biggest Stick. But . . .
06/05/08 Can You Beat Gas Prices?
06/05/05 Let's Put Dorian Gray's Picture on that Stamp
06/05/04 Our Financial Box
06/05/03 Siberia By the Sea
06/05/02 Can You Hear Me Now?
06/05/01 Self-Cleaning Government
06/04/28 This Changes Everything
06/04/27 Koko Speaks
06/04/26 SPAC Spec
06/04/25 Europe on $2,800 a Day
06/04/24 Not As Lame As You Think
06/04/21 33 More Months
06/04/20 Of Memoirs and Annuities
06/04/19 Time for an AndyDay
06/04/18 Moo
06/04/17 Clare and Lulu
06/04/14 Free Tax Prep
06/04/13 I Want My Money Back
06/04/12 Roses are Redolent; Violets, Pluperfect
06/04/11 Annuities
06/04/10 Barrels, Bibles, Bangles and Beads
06/04/07 So Why Don't YOU Run for Office?
06/04/06 When Would Jesus Bolt?
06/04/05 Shifting Republican Priorities
06/04/04 Without DeLay
06/04/03 Who Will Buy My Cookbook?
06/03/31 How to Manage (Your Mother-in-Law's) $250,000
06/03/30 Seduzione
06/03/29 Did I Tell You to Click There? Oy! I Meant HERE!
06/03/28 Call Home
06/03/27 Jugglers Gone Bananas
06/03/24 Wal-Mart, How to Manage $500,000, and a Great Speech
06/03/23 Fun and More Fun
06/03/22 I Before E Except After C
06/03/21 Is This the Dawn of the Next Bull Market?
06/03/20 Smarter to Book Two One-Ways?
06/03/17 Hey, Plastic Brain
06/03/16 A Must-Watch Video
06/03/15 The Man Who Ate Five Democrats
06/03/14 TOMORROW, The Man Who Ate Five Democrats
06/03/13 A Strong Voice
06/03/10 You'll NEED a Kitten After You Read This
06/03/09 Taking the Day Off
06/03/08 A Penny at 2% . . .
06/03/07 Making $7.8 Billion for Yale
06/03/06 FMD in Better Shape than USA?
06/03/03 How Your Government Works
06/03/02 A Talent Show and a Presidential Requirement
06/03/01 Could Your Kid Win $6 Million a Year Playing Bridge or Shooting Baskets?
06/02/28 The Latest From Bulgaria
06/02/27 Say Your Aunt Owns an Airbus A320
06/02/24 Leapin' Roombas!
06/02/23 Ooga Chakka, Ooga Chakka!
06/02/22 New Photo Breaks the Server
06/02/20 Geo. Washington and Demeaning of Demeanor
06/02/17 Up 79% - Now What?
06/02/16 This Will Probably Just Annoy You
06/02/15 So, When ARE We Going to Stand Together and Fight?
06/02/14 Smart and Simple Financial Strategies for Busy People
06/02/13 Supply Your Own N.R.A. Joke
06/02/10 But Let's Get Back to Self Interest
06/02/09 Girlawhirl
06/02/08 That List of 14 Criteria - Again
06/02/07 Every Steeler Got a $57,500 Watch
06/02/06 Pretty
06/02/03 The State of Your Stem Cells
06/02/02 A Bummer for Your Hummer
06/02/01 The Responsible Thing to Do Is to Borrow More
06/01/31 Haben Zie Ein Seinfeld, Por Favor?
06/01/30 Abramoff and Alito
06/01/27 Tidbits
06/01/26 Singing Nuns
06/01/25 Can't We All Just Get Along?
06/01/24 Bad
06/01/23 Medicare Part K
06/01/20 Attack of the Angry Chihuahuas
06/01/19 Gather Round My Luxury Sub
06/01/18 And You Think YOU Have Problems
06/01/16 Save $100 and a Loved One's Brain
06/01/13 You're Doing a Heck of a Job
06/01/12 A Grand Time - And Nobody Threw Up
06/01/11 The Optimists Expect a Loss of $38 Million
06/01/10 Beating the Market, Saving Democracy
06/01/09 A Book Review
06/01/06 Old News / New Observations
06/01/05 Sit Right Down and Write Yourself a Letter
06/01/04 Of Monomania and the Laffer Curve
06/01/02 How Do the Locusts Know?
05/12/29 A Secret about Your Heart
05/12/28 $32 a Share No Matter WHAT
05/12/27 Honey, Can You Get the Christmas Lights from Down in the Basement?
05/12/24 The Perfect December 26 Message
05/12/23 72 Hours - No Time for DeLay
05/12/22 Ad Homonym
05/12/21 Best Christmas Card of the Year
05/12/20 WWJD, TIVO, BOREF, NTMD
05/12/19 Days of the Week
05/12/16 Much To Say
05/12/15 Good, Ears, Carrots, and Cards
05/12/14 Sweet Carrots
05/12/13 Spaceship Earth
05/12/12 Good News If You Make $10 Million a Year in Dividends
05/12/09 Snow Day
05/12/08 On the Front Page in Norway . . .
05/12/07 TEEVEE, TIVO, N-T-M-D, HO, HO
05/12/06 Grades
05/12/05 Market Timing
05/12/02 One Republican's Thoughts
05/12/01 Ideas! Ideas! Ideas!
05/11/30 Joan's Dad
05/11/29 Good Deals and Turkey Drippings
05/11/28 Dow 11,000 and Your House
05/11/23 Thanksgiving Reruns
05/11/22 NTMD, BOREF, LUX
05/11/21 Confusing Drug Plans, Confusing War Plans
05/11/18 George Abbott Was Still WORKING at 107
05/11/17 Stocks and Real Estate
05/11/16 Three Great Broadway Shows
05/11/15 Party!
05/11/14 Borealis Makes Page Six
05/11/12 Holiday Gifts for Every Budget – II
05/11/11 051111 [and, a link to 051112]
05/11/10 Beating the Market (Really, I Think)
05/11/09 Why? Why? Why?
05/11/08 What's Really Going on with France
05/11/07 What's Really Going on with Libby
05/11/04 Free Samples, Buddhist Pizza, and a Theory
05/11/03 People In Grass Houses . . .
05/11/02 Free Money (Better Flush Than Fluish)
05/11/01 If Al Franken Had a Machine Gun in Diebold's Executive Suite
05/10/31 Boo!
05/10/28 FDR and Gandhi
05/10/27 Go Back and Read Mon-Tues-Weds
05/10/26 The Latest Borowitz Shocker
05/10/25 Tamiflu - Now There's a Drug with Legs
05/10/24 Remembering the Risks
05/10/21 Wilma!
05/10/20 Our Lack of Preparedness Could Make You Pull Out Your Hair
05/10/19 Bulls, Bears, and Woodpeckers
05/10/18 Priorities
05/10/17 More of Your Wisdom for an October Monday
05/10/13 Trojan.Vundo, No Less
05/10/14 Torjan.Vundo, No Less
05/10/14 Tips, Dips, and Quips
05/10/12 A Minister, A Priest, and a Rabbi
05/10/10 Profits and Corruption
05/10/07 Take These Jokes - Please!
05/10/06 Send Me Some Jokes
05/10/05 A DeLay in Our NTMD Profit?
05/10/04 Country Funds, Mutual Funds, and Tobacco
05/10/03 The Republicans' Deep Bench
05/09/30 Boring Money Stuff
05/09/29 Profit Taking- 11 a.m. Update
05/09/28 Books, Looks, and Schnooks
05/09/27 The Work Penalty
05/09/26 The Debt We Owe Republican Leadership
05/09/23 Press 1 for a Job, Press 2 for Pork, Press . . .
05/09/22 Of Debt and Penguins
05/09/21 Economy: Meet Astronomy
05/09/20 Debtors, Psychos, and Puts
05/09/19 Oink, Oink
05/09/16 Einstein's Bird
05/09/15 Tomorrow: Einstein's Bird. But Today . . .
05/09/14 Don't Sell Your Puts
05/09/13 Drugs
05/09/12 Marriage, Maher and More
05/09/09 They Had Telephones In 1898?
05/09/08 And We Got Hawaii!
05/09/07 Two Questions for You
05/09/05 We Found a Family to Help!
05/09/02 Falwell, FEMA, Floss, MRK
05/09/01 The Catastrophe; Jude Law; Saving Big on Dental Care; NTMD
05/08/31 Teeth, Science, Inflation
05/08/30 Spicing Up Your Index Funds
05/08/29 The Relative Merits of Teeth, Hummers, Puts and Shorts
05/08/26 TIAA-CREF and Dwarf Tossing
05/08/25 Amen
05/08/24 Tomorrow: Interesting Salt. But Today . . .
05/08/23 Slingbox
05/08/22 Drugs, Generics, Puts, Iraq
05/08/19 Funny Hats and Smelly Cheese
05/08/18 A Tale of Two Stocks
05/08/17 Look Who's Selling
05/08/16 Don't Sell Your Oil Stocks II
05/08/15 Don't Sell Your Oil Stocks
08/15/05 Don;t Sell Your Oil Stocks
05/08/12 Today's Column . . .
05/08/11 Further Thoughts from a Lifelong Republican
05/08/10 This Is Some Watermelon!
05/08/08 Into the Woods
05/08/05 China
05/08/04 More Evolution
05/08/03 Can Borealis Evolve into a $100 Stock?
05/08/02 Borealis!!!
05/08/01 Summer Browsing for a $5 Million Open Mind
05/07/29 Married to an FBI
05/07/28 I Think I'll Try Firefox
05/07/27 It's Showtime (and a Few Words about Cults)
05/07/26 5 Reasons to Switch to Firefox
05/07/25 Unless We Have Global Collapse . . .
05/07/22 Just a Few Quick Follow Ups
05/07/21 Marrying for Money
05/07/20 He Drank the Kool-Aid
05/07/19 NTMD, 'Nightline' Rocks, 8-Year Marriages . . .
05/07/18 Nitromed's 2 Cents
05/07/15 From a CIA Classmate
05/07/14 Whipsawed
05/07/13 Maudlin
05/07/12 You Gotta Read This Transcript
05/07/11 The F Word and the M Word
05/07/08 The Liberal Press
05/07/07 Oil -- Here Come the Chinese
05/07/06 A Tale of Two Stocks
05/07/05 Can Prices Really Climb? Real Estate in Rhyme
05/07/01 The Bubble
05/06/30 PPD, World Domination, and Thy Neighbor's Ass
05/06/29 PUCHA?
05/06/28 He Quits
05/06/27 News Flash: We've Been Conned
05/06/24 Barack Obama's Commencement Address
05/06/23 SYM, PPD and a Yak
05/06/22 America First
05/06/21 Saving Children's Lives Actually REDUCES Population Growth
05/06/20 DO NOT!
05/06/17 Quote, Unquote
05/06/16 Questioning Fundamentalism
05/06/15 Fascism Watch
05/06/14 Gone Fishing
05/06/13 Borealis and the Chairman
05/06/10 Exxon Calls the Tune
05/06/09 Whew! Uranium and Your Credit Card Junk Mail
05/06/08 Any Enviro Docs Out There?
05/06/07 Done Him Wvong
05/06/06 And The Best News Of All Is That They Got A Tax Cut!
05/06/02 Take the Red Pill
05/06/01 Cry for Me, Argentina
05/05/31 Crew, Lacrosse, and Your PriUPS
05/05/27 Love It Or Leave It
05/05/26 Marty Is Breathing Again
05/05/25 Of Quicken, Flypaper and Moyers
05/05/24 Those Were the Days, My Friend
05/05/23 911 for PBS
05/05/20 Newsweek
05/05/19 Bumper Sticker
05/05/18 Of Nobel Prizes and Priuses
05/05/17 What's Wrong with These Nobel Laureates?
05/05/16 Team America? Team Freedom? No, Team . . .
05/05/13 What's Wrong with This Picture?
05/05/12 We Like Ike
05/05/11 De Rekening
05/05/09 Gas Mileage and Fascism
05/05/06 Astonishing
05/05/05 One Wonders Two Things
05/05/04 Versus
05/05/03 Surgery
05/05/02 Are We Lagging Technologically?
05/04/29 The Link That Explains It All
05/04/28 The Prince and the Pauper
05/04/27 Pills for Your Porc and the Cinnamon Play (Really)
05/04/26 Pills for Your Porc and the Cinnamon Play
05/04/25 Barry Goldwater's View
05/04/22 The Meek? They're Just Lazy
05/04/21 Comforting the Comfortable
05/04/20 Is the News Bad in a Forest If No One Reports It?
05/04/19 It Gets Worse
05/04/18 Dow Update
05/04/15 Print Your 4868 Here
05/04/14 Energy Crisis? What Energy Crisis?
05/04/13 Apples, Sprouts, and Coffee
05/04/12 A Grand Time and a Grand Bargain
05/04/11 90% off the Philharmonic
05/04/09 Compassion
05/04/08 Compassion
05/04/07 And the Winner for the Best Economy Is . . .
05/04/06 Viewing Your Roof from Outer Space
05/04/05 Maureen Dowd on Curveball
05/04/04 Absolute Power
05/04/01 Islands in the Stream
05/03/31 David Bruce Has Done His Taxes
05/03/30 Basic Fairness
05/03/29 Do Home Prices Need a Living Will?
05/03/28 The View from Morgan Stanley
05/03/25 Neigh, A Living Will Is Not Enough
05/03/24 The $64,000 Question
05/03/23 From Mogambo to the Comptroller General
05/03/22 Click for Mogambo
05/03/21 How to Play the Real Estate Bubble
05/03/18 Visit the Monkeysphere
05/03/17 Free Calls, Free Trade
05/03/16 Dog, God, $$$, Flu, Hump
05/03/15 Paws with a Cause
05/03/14 Woof!
05/03/11 Minimum Wage Bankruptcies Sprouting Up All Over
05/03/10 Boil, Salt, Eat, and Click
05/03/09 A Global Minimum Wage
05/03/08 A Grand Time to be Rich and Powerful
05/03/07 Good Advice from Jezediah Squimatsu
05/03/04 The Little Engine that Could
05/03/03 Summer Shares
05/03/02 Computer Hell
05/03/01 Enough with the Rebates
05/02/28 Your Stocks, Rebates, Lint, Tivo - and House
05/02/25 Washing Your Dryer
05/02/24 TiVo and Rebate Mavens
05/02/23 The Hump and the Jump
05/02/22 Name Your Child Tivo and Get $100 Rebate
05/02/18 Visitor Discretion Advised
05/02/17 Finally, Some Financial Advice
05/02/16 More Free Software
05/02/15 That Hump
05/02/14 Maps and Boots
05/02/11 Over the Top
05/02/10 Dean LeBaron's View
05/02/09 We Could Borrow Another $150 Trillion
05/02/08 $900 Billion - for a CROWN?
05/02/07 Ah, Brave New World of Dentistry
05/02/04 He Keeps Talking About It, So So Will I
05/02/03 We Already HAVE Private Accounts
05/02/02 Jailing the Social Studies Class
05/02/01 His Grandpa INVENTED Social Security
05/01/31 Free Calls, Chinese CDs, Terror
05/01/28 Something for Democrats to Chew On
05/01/27 Guns, Butter, and Caviar
05/01/26 Would You Filch Your Daughter's College Fund?
01/05/26 Would You Filch Your Daughter's College Fund?
05/01/25 A Difference in Philosophy
05/01/24 Should You Bet Everything on the Dollar?
05/01/21 Chinese Money
05/01/20 Jeb
05/01/19 The Skype Is Falling! The Skype Is Falling!
05/01/18 In Diebold We Trust
05/01/14 A Lot More of Your Tax Dollars at Work
05/01/13 Words To Live By
01/05/13 No column today
05/01/12 Google Puts and Soap Slivers (Really)
05/01/11 Google Puts and Soap Slivers
05/01/10 Frango Mints and A.G. the New A.G.
05/01/07 Pat Revealed
05/01/06 Disrobing Pat
05/01/05 Gee-Gees
05/01/04 A Word, A Scam, And More
05/01/03 A Story and a Quiz
04/12/30 The Rapture Index Hits 155
04/12/29 BEARISH BUFFETT
04/12/28 A Word About Our Planet
04/12/27 A Trillion Here and a Trillion There
04/12/24 You Want Reindeer? Click Here.
04/12/23 More Social Security
04/12/22 Calling Home for the Holidays
04/12/21 Social Security Crib Sheet
04/12/20 Social Security Crib Sheet
04/12/17 Shake a Snow Globe
04/12/16 Oh, Me, Oh MY, oh.
04/12/15 China 2.2 cents, Cleveland 2.5 cents
04/12/14 Flying Your IRAs to Costa Rica First Class
04/12/13 Russia, China, Chile, Chad . . . This Diamond Fake is Really Rad
04/12/10 Sell Apple, Eat a Strawberry
04/12/09 Buy a Scarf, Sell an Apple, Eat a Strawberry
04/12/08 Invisible Buttons - A Neat Bit of Programming
04/12/07 Can YOU Beat the Market?
04/12/06 Beating the Airport Slots
04/12/03 And CBS Said: Thou Shalt Not Advocate Inclusion On THIS Network
04/12/02 Out of Print Books, Out of Guts Networks
04/12/01 Well, Do YOU Wear Pajamas?
04/11/30 Two Views
04/11/29 Presto! You're Up 49%
04/11/24 Free Books, Cheap Calls, I Called Borealis, Burning in Hell for Eternity
04/11/23 Safe and Secure
04/11/22 Free Books
04/11/19 Shhh! - Part 2
04/11/18 Shhh!
04/11/17 Of Acorn Squash and Condoleezza Rice
04/11/16 Duccio di Borealis
04/11/15 Tugging Jets Through Kansas
04/11/12 Come Back Tomorrow
04/11/11 Bin Reading
04/11/10 Tugging Les Voters
04/11/09 Good News on Borealis?
04/11/08 Notes From a Fundamentalist
04/11/05 Haricot Vert
04/11/04 Four More Years
04/11/02 A Decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind
04/11/01 Catholic? Born Again? Jewish?
04/10/29 An Update on Your Stocks. But First . . .
04/10/28 One Curse Down, One To Go
04/10/27 John Bogle Knows Value
04/10/26 It's Kerry, 31 to 2
04/10/25 I Made a Big Mistake Friday
04/10/22 Joke, No Joke
04/10/21 The Fat Lady Has Grasped the Armrests of Her Chair
04/10/20 President Kerry and Your Money
04/10/19 Orwell, Orwell, Orwell
04/10/18 Googapuss
04/10/15 The 394-Year Download
04/10/14 Your Money
04/10/13 Debate Prep
04/10/12 Wanna Buy Some Wood?
04/10/11 It Was All Paul O'Neill's Fault
04/10/08 A Compassionate Conservative
04/10/07 Bombs, Breasts, and an 8.8% Yield
04/10/06 Just the Man to Call If You Oppose Head Start
04/10/05 Timber Profits and a Little Melondrama
04/10/04 Timber Profits and a Must-See Movie
04/10/01 A Good Night
04/09/30 The Word from Crawford
04/09/29 5 Quick Ones
04/09/28 Change Horses or Drown
04/09/27 Seven E-Mail Rules That Will Change The World
04/09/24 The Word from the Right
04/09/23 E. L.
04/09/22 If This Is My Last Column, You’ll Know Why
04/09/21 Nits, Gnats, Cats and More
04/09/20 Talking Points
04/09/17 We're Going to Win
04/09/16 Reassuring Prasanth - 2
04/09/15 Reassuring Prasanth
04/09/14 Nader, Kerry, Bush
04/09/13 The Issues Made Simple
04/09/10 Pretty Rotten
04/09/09 We Are All Campaign Strategists Now
04/09/08 A Smart System for Thinning Junk Mail; Smart Thoughts on Roth IRA Conversions
04/09/07 The Keynoter, the V.P., and the A.G.'s Wife
04/09/03 30 of Bush's Flip-Flops
04/09/02 Please Read This One
04/09/01 Garrison Keillor
04/08/31 Some Mora Borealis
04/08/30 Welcome, Republicans
04/08/27 Your BCCI Account Has Been Closed
04/08/26 Oh, Heck - Let's Hear from Someone Who Was Actually There
04/08/25 Of Index Funds and Politics
04/08/24 Don’t Mess With Texas (REALLY Really)
04/08/23 Don't Mess With Texas (Really)
04/08/20 What Matt Miller Has Learned from Charley
04/08/19 Why We're Gonna Win
04/08/18 Krugman on the News
04/08/17 Do YOU Carry Three Photo IDs and Know Kerry's Health Plan?
04/08/16 Where To Put Your Money Now?
04/08/13 The Ever Narrowing Free Speech Zone
04/08/12 Please Watch This
04/08/11 Pray for Us
04/08/10 Pickles
04/08/09 Neither Compassionate NOR a Conservative?
04/08/06 You've Got to Watch This Video
04/08/05 Can Comedy Central Really Have the Best News Show?
04/08/04 Protecting America
04/08/03 Reagan on Bush, Oliphant on Kerry
04/08/02 Ye Olde Tax Cuts
04/07/30 Speeches, Debates, and Your Money
04/07/29 Watch THIS
04/07/28 How It Looks NOW
04/07/27 $800,000 for Him, $4 for You
04/07/26 Your Taxes; Your Country
04/07/23 Do You Know Anyone Who Lives Abroad?
04/07/22 Two Perspectives
04/07/21 The Two Things About The Two Things
04/07/20 Just Because He's Smarter and Got More Votes Doesn't Mean He's Wrong
04/07/19 They Distort, You Decide
04/07/16 Verizon Ate My Homework
04/07/15 A Good Day for America
04/07/14 And the Free-o Treo Goes to . . .
04/07/13 Bruuuuuce!
04/07/12 What's Next?
04/07/09 Free the Treo 300
04/07/08 You're Not in the Bottom 97% - You're in the Top 100%!
04/07/07 More Good News
04/07/06 Good Apples
04/07/02 Have a Great Weekend!
04/07/01 Conservative Critics
04/06/30 John Maynard Keynes on Fahrenheit 9/11
04/06/29 Real Soon Now? Fat Chance!
04/06/28 How Will These Stories End?
04/06/25 Take in a Movie
04/06/24 Borealis, Again
04/06/23 Sculpture
04/06/22 Stupid
04/06/21 Personal Loans
04/06/18 Listen to Molly
04/06/17 Laying Blame Where’s It’s Due
04/06/16 A Smidgeon of Personal Finance
04/06/15 Your Last Words on This Topic
04/06/14 If You Own No Oil Stocks
04/06/11 The Presidential Debates - Really
04/06/10 The Presidential Debates
04/06/09 APPLES AND CORN
04/06/08 Dollar v. Euro; Neutral v. Objective
04/06/07 Two Deaths
04/06/04 Nutty Stocks, Corn for Guys on the Go, Jogging in Iraq
04/06/03 Smelly Bonds
04/06/02 The Real Economic Plan
04/06/01 Good Food, Good Works, Good Grief
04/05/28 Have a Great Weekend
04/05/27 The Other Two Movies
04/05/26 Three Movies
04/05/25 Fun with Economic Statistics
04/05/24 Winners for the New World
04/05/21 What the Party Believes
04/05/20 1% More Interest; 4.4 Fewer Divorces
04/05/19 The Deep End
04/05/18 Welcome to Los Angeles
04/05/17 From Pat Buchanan No Less
04/05/14 MEASURING INFLATION, YIELD, AND GOD
04/05/13 Work Harder - My Taxes Are STILL Too High
04/05/12 501c-6's (Did You Say SIX-es???)
04/05/11 Meet 43
04/05/10 Your Money - A Slew of New TIPS
04/05/07 Counting the Votes
04/05/06 Scary Stuff
04/05/05 Spelling Radiation CensoRship and More
04/05/04 Let's Talk About Money
04/05/03 Cycling Through the Dead Zone
04/04/30 Other Points of View
04/04/29 Next Week - Back to Money, I Promise
04/04/27 Holding a Wolf By Its Ears
04/04/28 And Now for the Conservative View
04/04/26 Woodward, Albright and Berger
04/04/23 But Can This Chicken Juggle?
04/04/22 Egg On My Face
04/04/21 King of Your Own Domain
04/04/20 Cheapless in Seattle
04/04/19 Woodward (Oh - and Should We Abolish the Senate?)
04/04/16 LEAPs, TIPS - and a Movie!
04/04/15 A Tremendous, Immediate Yawn
04/04/14 Numbers
04/04/13 Watch Out Dell - Here Comes IBM!
04/04/12 Hole In One
04/04/09 TGIGF
04/04/08 Condo, Condi, and More
04/04/07 Real Estate - Part 2
04/04/06 Real Estate
04/04/05 Yawning Penguins Let Al-Qaeda Metastasize
04/04/02 Closed-End Funds and a Graphic
04/04/01 April Fun
04/03/31 Listen to Al!
04/03/30 Democrats Are Wimps
04/03/29 A Possible Pattern
04/03/25 Transcripts
04/03/24 Two Thousand Bottles of Beer on the Wall
04/03/23 Selling Some TIPS
04/03/22 Ignoring the Threat
04/03/19 Give It Up for Krugman
04/03/18 The Bears and the Bushes
04/03/17 Shrimp and Shrub
04/03/16 Give It Up for Granny
04/03/15 Matt Miller, Bette Midler (and Chicken)
04/03/12 Which Would YOU Choose?
04/03/11 Money - Little and Big
04/03/10 Protect Your Pet, Soop Up Your Google
04/03/09 Could This Make YOU Money?
04/03/08 Science Schmience; Martha and George
04/03/05 Wait a Second!
04/03/04 Politics!
04/03/03 Polyamorous Mutual Funds
04/03/02 $ocial $ecurity, TIPS, Polygamy
04/03/01 Mayor Richard Daley
04/02/27 Let's Spend the Weekend Together
04/02/25 Getting Rich Slow, Quick, and Til Death Do (Some of Us) Part
04/02/24 Trust the CEO?
04/02/23 Science, Schmience
04/02/20 Betting on Bush
04/02/19 Converting Pounds to Dollars
04/02/18 More on Marriage, Pounds to Dollars …
04/02/16 Buy! Sell! Marry!
04/02/13 Golly, Miss Molly!
04/02/12 Bonds, Priceline Refunds, Treasury Secretaries, Returning Vets
04/02/11 Converting Pounds to Dollars
04/02/10 Your Further Thoughts About Taxes
04/02/09 Meet The Press
04/02/06 “What Do You MEAN, ‘I Don’t Pay Taxes?!’”
04/02/05 "What Do You MEAN, ‘I Don’t Pay Taxes?!’”
04/02/04 What SHOULD the Top 1% Be Taxed?
04/02/03 What SHOULD the Top 1% Be Taxed?
04/02/02 Is This a Great Country Or What?
04/01/30 Debbie Does Dartmouth
04/01/29 You Mean You DON'T Make $250 Million a Year?
04/01/28 401(k) vs 529 . . . Let's Get Ready to Rumble!
04/01/27 Lieutenant Bush
04/01/26 Polish and Politics
04/01/23 January Bounce, Etc.
04/01/22 Scoobie - Don't!
04/01/21 State of the Union
04/01/20 Still Celebrating Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday
04/01/16 Earth in the Balance -- Watch This
04/01/15 Advice For An 84-Year-Old Mom
04/01/14 Straws and Blimps in the Wind
04/01/13 You Need a Blimp Like You Need a Hole in the Head
04/01/12 Two Books and a Movie
04/01/09 Tidbits
04/01/08 A Republican Take on the Bushes
04/01/07 Inadvertent Hindsight - A Y2K04 Problem
04/01/06 Making Twelfth Grade Optional
04/01/05 I'm Back
03/12/30 Googling Over Audible As We Married Guys Support the Troops
03/12/29 Paul Krugman's New Year's Resolutions
03/12/26 Absquatulate
03/12/24 Holiday Joy
03/12/23 Year-End Tax-Selling -- And Buying
03/12/22 US Against the World
03/12/19 Your Thoughts on Marriage
03/12/18 Don't Click Here
03/12/17 My Bad
03/12/16 Three Sites Without Machine Guns
03/12/15 A Great Day for Freedom
03/12/12 Madam, I'm Tomlin
03/12/11 Transferring Joe's Videos to DVD
03/12/10 Medical Research - and More
03/12/09 Yet Mor-A Borealis
03/12/08 Fun for the Whole Family - and More
03/12/05 Amending the Constitution
03/12/04 The Economy on Speed
03/12/03 Watch It!
03/12/02 Music (and Books)
03/12/01 How I Know Time Travel Will Be Possible (Though Maybe Not Stem Cell research)
03/11/26 Music, Mortgages and More
03/11/25 Music!
03/11/24 Bi-Monthly Umbrellae
03/11/21 One More Reason to Avoid Actively Managed Funds
03/11/20 Free Money; Real Stories
03/11/19 Marriage TIPS
03/11/18 Borealis' Boeing Hire
03/11/17 More Free Money
03/11/14 Molly on the GWB Disconnect
03/11/13 Putting Your Mouth Where George Soros' Money Is
03/11/12 Can Isaac Get a Mortgage If He Dismembers His Neighbor?
03/11/11 Is There ANYTHING They Do Right?
03/11/10 A Speech Worth Reading
03/11/07 Unprecedented
03/11/06 Bananas - and Another Radioactive Topic
03/11/05 Bananas
03/11/04 GWB: Reluctant Warrior; John Lewis: Warrior for Civil Rights
03/11/03 7.2%, the Yuan, Car Insurance
03/10/31 A Way to Play the Dollar?
03/10/30 Warren's Warning - and Way Out
03/10/29 Hoax Busters, Earbuds, Bananas
03/10/28 You Could Buy One Share or Two Light Bulbs
03/10/26 Air France, Genocide, and the Plague
03/10/23 The Kid Stays in the Picture
03/10/21 If the Man in the Moon Owned Palestinian Mutual Funds
03/10/20 Google THIS, Henry Fonda
03/10/17 A Penny for My Thoughts
03/10/16 Extraterrestrials Are Not Buying Borealis
03/10/15 Site Is Down
03/10/14 More Cheap Calls for Better 403(b) Plans
03/10/13 I Predict: No Mail Today
03/10/10 Of Moonies and Marriage - Part 2
03/10/09 What Have These Real Estate Prices Been Smoking?
03/10/08 Before You Inhale
03/10/07 Agreeing on The Legacy
03/10/06 Sam Waksal & George Bush
03/10/03 Uh, Oh -- Religion
03/10/02 Former Senator Max Cleland's View
03/10/01 Insuring Wasteful Credit Card Marriage
03/09/30 A Leaky Environment
03/09/29 Whose Math Do Your Trust – Allan Sloan’s or W’s?
03/09/26 #1 Best Seller
03/09/25 Constitutional Amendments
03/09/24 Champagne and Chickens
03/09/23 You're Richer Than You Thought
03/09/21 John Adams Re-reconsidered
03/09/19 Generalissimo Francisco Franco Is Still Dead
03/09/18 How Often Does a 38-Year-Old Go Out?
03/09/17 Give It Up for Matt Miller
03/09/16 9/11
03/09/15 "The OC"
03/09/12 Your Feedback On Taxes
03/09/11 9 - 11
03/09/10 Feedback
03/09/09 The Fog of War and Tax Policy
03/09/08 See Biscuit
03/09/05 Of Subbookkeepers, Old Folks, and Dirty Power
03/09/04 Googling a Chorus of Consonants
03/09/03 Social Security
03/09/02 Fair and Balanced -- or a Scam?
03/08/29 Somora Borealis
03/08/28 Googling the Education Gap
03/08/27 More Google
03/08/26 The Utility of Deregulation
03/08/25 Google Wins
03/08/21 Is There a Pattern Here?
03/08/20 A Maniac for Two Bits Lying in the Street
03/08/19 Found Money
03/08/18 Timber 2
8-/18/-0 Timber - 2
03/08/15 Doing My Taxes By Candle Light
03/08/14 Wood
03/08/13 It's the 13th
03/08/12 Cod to Queen's Bishop Fox
03/08/11 Ooo, Le, Le!
03/08/08 Talking Cod
03/08/07 From the Right and the Left
03/08/06 Rhodes, Cod, TIPS, Bishops
03/08/05 A Radio Hightower
03/08/04 Reading the Social Cues
03/08/01 Schmorealis
03/07/31 With This Refund, You Could Buy Salt
03/07/30 Your Feedback
03/07/29 TIPS and Other Tips
03/07/28 Alchemy for the New Age
03/07/25 Hydrogen Cars -- The Real Energy Story
03/07/24 Cheap Sleep, Your Credit, Our Candidate
03/07/23 Putting Kevin's Kin Through Kollege
03/07/22 Foolish Calculators and Griping GIs
03/07/21 Tax Cuts for the Average Joe
03/07/18 Have a Crazy, Fake, Bi-partisan Weekend
03/07/17 Crazy Hospital Charges
03/07/16 Beating Uncle Out of $600
03/07/15 Compensatory Time Off
03/07/14 The Texas Miracle, The Florida Miracle, and Rush
03/07/11 Crazy
03/07/10 More Advice for Daniel S.
03/07/09 More On Your Credit Score
03/07/08 If . . .
03/07/07 Erik Gordon Is Not Dead
03/07/03 Out Trapping Lobsters
03/07/02 Daniel: Don't Read This. Will Make You Too Crazy.
03/07/01 The $495,000 Starter House
03/06/30 Al Franken on Class Warfare
03/06/27 6-3
03/06/26 Icy Indifference
03/06/25 Watch What You Say
03/06/24 What Do Scientists Know?
03/06/23 Where, Oh, Where Are Woodward & Bernstein?
03/06/20 How's Your Credit Rating?
03/06/19 Praisin' the Raisin
03/06/18 Free at Last . . .
03/06/17 Two Minute Movies
03/06/16 The Chair of the New York Fed - Fed Up
03/06/13 Paying Your Bills - The Sequel
03/06/12 Double Click
03/06/11 Should the Dow Go to Jail for Speeding?
03/06/10 Help Me Win a Bumper Sticker
03/06/09 Real Estate, Real Inflate
03/06/06 ABBA
03/06/05 Tell Him Your Plans
03/06/04 Does It Matter?
03/06/03 TIPS - Tipsy?
03/06/02 The Revolting and Unforgivable Taxcut
03/06/01 The Revolting and Unforgivable Tax Cut
03/05/30 No (Rich) Child Left Behind
03/05/29 The New Tax Bill And Your Retirement Plan
03/05/27 Mark Foley Wants to Be My Senator
03/05/25 I'm Rich! I'm Rich! This Is So Cool!
03/05/23 Long Weekend
03/05/22 Bush versus Buffett
03/05/21 Your Government at Work
03/05/20 My Stupid $20.91 Bill
03/05/19 Monday Fun
03/05/16 My Woman
03/05/15 24 Hours
03/05/14 Four Things
03/05/12 Four Voices: Three Strong, One Weak
03/05/09 Up 63% on a Filibuster
03/05/08 But What If You Make $30,000 and Have Two Kids?
03/05/07 Sanctimony
03/05/06 Few Things Make Me Prouder
03/05/05 A Few More Questions and the Final Word
03/05/02 All Hands on Deck
03/05/01 And Now, A Word Or Two About Money
03/04/30 Not ONE of You Favors Incest – Or Santorum
03/04/29 Your Mutual Fund: A Raspberry or a Tomato?
03/04/27 The President v Andrew Sullivan
03/04/24 OK, Let's Get REALLY Jiggy
03/04/23 Talking Trash
03/04/22 Starving the States
03/04/21 You Paid for It – Enjoy!
03/04/18 Take the Quiz!
03/04/17 More Price Grabbin'
03/04/16 Become an eCaptain?
03/04/15 How Come You All Know So Much about Vlad the Impaler?
03/04/14 Price Grabber
03/04/11 Vlad the Impaler; Soros Redux
03/04/10 Hurry! Hoorah! HooIRA!
03/04/09 Of Soapy Baptisms and Budget Deficits
03/04/08 Macroeconomics and Your Money
03/04/07 Red, White, and Broke
03/04/04 Dinky Winky
03/04/03 The Hawk at the Village Voice
03/04/02 Praying for Bush, A Tooth Lengthening – All that and Andy Rooney
03/04/01 Your Feedback
03/03/31 TIPS (and Other Tips)
03/03/28 Other Voices
03/03/27 When You Have Nothing Nice to Say
03/03/26 One More Reason Not to Sun-Bathe Naked on Your Roof
03/03/25 Borrowing Massively to Cut Taxes for the Best Off
03/03/23 Buying Uranium from Niger
03/03/20 A Hopeful Prediction
03/03/19 Watch What I Do, Not What I Say
03/03/18 Did My Florida Tax Today
03/03/17 How about a Lamb Chop on Your Head?
03/03/14 Oh, Yum!
03/03/13 Food for Thought
03/03/12 Maybe Get a Little Duct Tape After All?
03/03/11 The Boss Speaks
03/03/10 The Cop and the Firefighter
03/03/07 Our National Debt
03/03/06 What's Fair?
03/03/05 Rest Easy, God Is on Our Side
03/03/03 If Only Iraq's CEO Would Open a Roth and Go to Hell
03/03/04 Cutting Uncle Sam’s Deficit and Your Own
03/02/28 Tyson - Enough to Make an Investor Chicken
03/02/26 Having To Pay $40 Million In Tax On $100 Million In Income
03/02/25 Oy – Such a Film Trove!
03/02/24 Relax - It's Just Plague
03/02/21 Corrections and Amplifications
03/02/20 Trizonality
03/02/19 Handy On-Line Financial Calculators
03/02/18 Insane, But in a Good Way
03/02/14 Taxation Without Representation
03/02/13 Molly's Bose Earphones in Lizard Lick, Iraq
03/02/12 Out Buying Duct Tape
03/02/11 All Ears
03/02/10 Iraq: Pro and Con
03/02/07 Dam - Toad Suck is a DAM!
03/02/06 Today Has Been Canceled
03/02/05 Slamming Spam in Knockemstiff, Ohio
03/02/04 Conglomeration
03/02/03 Cell Hotels.com, Buy Jet Blue
03/01/31 Mr. Sterling - Tonight on NBC at 8
03/01/30 Where Would We Be Without Molly?
03/01/29 The State of the Chicken
03/01/28 Nineteen Percent of Us Are in the Top One Percent
03/01/27 More Thoughts about the 10 Men and the $100 Dinner
03/01/24 Your Thoughts on the Idiotic Thing about the 10 Men and the $100 Dinner
03/01/23 Have You Forfeited American Express Points?
03/01/22 Who Owns Mickey Mouse?
03/01/21 Two Short Must Reads
03/01/20 That Idiotic Thing about the 10 Men Going to a $100 Dinner
03/01/17 Come Back Tomorrow, Please
03/01/16 Wide-Eyed, I’d No IDEa, divIDEnds, That ID-iotic Thing
03/01/15 Wishful Thinking
03/01/14 Will You Still Need Me, Will You Still Feed Me, When I'm 94?
03/01/13 More . . .
03/01/10 Tang, Time, and Tax
03/01/09 Freeing Dividends from Tax
03/01/08 A New Apollo Project
03/01/07 Well, IS the Stock Market Safe Again?
03/01/05 Is the Stock Market Safe Again?
02/12/30 Madam, I'm Addled
02/12/27 Abducted By Elves
02/12/23 2002 1221 2002
02/12/20 OnLine Home Base
02/12/19 A Little of Everything
02/12/18 Here's an Idea: Let's Fund the S.E.C.
02/12/17 TIPS: Buy Direct or Via Vanguard?
02/12/16 IBM 4 - But No More!
02/12/13 Time for More Bonds? (Probably Not.)
02/12/12 Twelve Twelve Twelve
02/12/11 IBM - Part 3
02/12/10 Poor IBM - Part 2
02/12/09 Poor IBM
02/12/06 Earn 37% Tax-Free
02/12/05 Ad-Aware; Let's Fund the SEC
02/12/04 More 529 Choices
12/-4/-0 More 529 Choices
02/12/03 Is that a 529 I See on the Verizon?
02/12/02 A 14.85% Yield?
02/11/27 Poor Mother Earth
02/11/26 Cleaning Like a Guy
02/11/25 Time to Rebalance?
02/11/22 Cleaning Like a Guy
02/11/21 Of Peruvian Chickens and Referees
02/11/20 Does Dave Need Life Insurance?
02/11/19 Your Thoughts - From Iraq to Carrots to Horse Meat
02/11/18 Jury Duty: Not So Bad
02/11/14 I Don’t Want to See the Factory – Please Pass the Salt
02/11/13 Next You'll Be Wanting Me to Clean the SOAP
02/11/12 A Real Estate Correction and One Other
02/11/11 Overview
02/11/07 Your Feedback
02/11/06 When You Don't Have Anything Nice to Say . . .
02/11/05 Turn-Out
02/11/04 Vote for the Slimeball?
02/11/01 Things You May Not Have Known About Jeb Bush
02/10/31 The Diamond, the Doofus, and the $80 Deluxe Suite
02/10/30 It's the Courts, Stupid!
02/10/29 Slimeball
02/10/28 Diamonds Are for . . . ?
02/10/25 Buy Her a DVD? A Car? A War Bond?
02/10/24 Jack Bogle; Cheap Software
02/10/23 Your Comments
02/10/22 OK
02/10/21 Let Them Do Sit-Ups
02/10/18 Of Taxes, the Church, War and Mammy
02/10/17 War and Peace
02/10/16 Jeb
02/10/15 Two Thoughtful Statements on Iraq
02/10/11 Rob Responds
02/10/10 A Pro-Palestinian View
02/10/09 Bubble, Bubble -- Real Estate Trouble?
02/10/08 Dick Davis #35
02/10/04 Bush Rules!
02/10/03 In the Old Days, You’d Check with the Better Business Bureau
02/10/02 Is Anyone to Blame?
02/10/01 Harvard’s President on Anti-Semitism
02/09/30 Using Uncle Sam’s Money
02/09/28 Less Casual Saturday
02/09/27 ANOTHER Very Casual Friday
02/09/26 CAESAR, TIVO, SEASONS, PICKS, AOL
02/09/25 The Difference Between Airlines and Drug-Makers
02/09/24 Pledging Allegiance To AOL
02/09/23 False Alarm: It’s OK to Drink Pepsi
02/09/21 Patrick Buys a New Motorcar
02/09/20 Casual Friday
02/09/19 An Anchovy Pizza with Dick Davis #34, Hold the Fed
02/09/18 Maybe They Should Hire the Scientists from the Tobacco Institute
02/09/17 Dick Davis #33: The Market Has Its Own Agenda
02/09/16 A Further Point About Points
02/09/13 Good News, Macro and Micro
02/09/12 Dollar-Cost Averaging, Again
02/09/11 9/11
02/09/10 BULL, Says Less to the Bears
02/09/09 Bull or Bear
02/09/06 Dow 5000
02/09/05 Dick Davis!
02/09/04 Coffee, Tea and TiVo
02/09/03 A Second Cup
02/08/30 A Cup of Coffee
02/08/29 Are You in the Wrong Section 529 Tuition Plan?
02/08/28 Traditional Deficit Republicanism
02/08/27 More Real Estate
02/08/26 Is It Worth Paying Points?
02/08/23 Salty Weekend Reading
02/08/22 Are We the Next Japan?
02/08/21 Jeb - Part 2
02/08/20 Jeb Bush Stands By His Man
02/08/19 Pressing Matters
02/08/16 Under Six!
02/08/15 Health Notes
02/08/14 Grapefruit
02/08/13 Talk Among Yourselves
02/08/12 The Sun Will Come Up Tomorrow. Or One of These Days.
02/08/09 Psycho-Shift
02/08/08 Roses . . .
02/08/07 Another Rate Cut?
02/08/06 Summer Rerun
02/08/05 Hotels and Hoffer -- in Haifa?
02/08/02 Stupid AND Evil?
02/08/01 One Stupid Liberal Curled Up at the Movies with a Diet Coke
02/07/31 Your Cell Phone Has an E-Mail Address!
02/07/30 Gloating and Floating
02/07/29 Eureka! Coke Sinks!
02/07/26 Should We Be Able to Deduct MORE than $3,000 in Losses?
02/07/25 Well, THAT Was Fun!
02/07/24 Time to Nibble? I Bought Stocks Today!
02/07/23 Are We There Yet?
02/07/22 Market Can Only Go Up from Here, Says Dick
02/07/19 Three Good Ones
02/07/18 Despair, Get Your Butt on Down Here
02/07/17 Our CEO
02/07/16 Now, Harvey
02/07/15 Good News Would Be Bad News – If There Were Some
02/07/12 Dick Davis: Why Markets Go to Extremes
02/07/11 Thoughts on the Market
02/07/10 Is That a Bic in Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Trying to Blow Up the Plane?
02/07/09 Pray All You Want
02/07/08 How About It?
02/07/05 Who You Callin' Rich?
02/07/03 Well? IS There a Real Estate Bubble?
02/07/02 Is There a Real Estate Bubble?
02/07/01 Is This the Bottom? -- Part 2
02/06/28 Is This the Bottom?
02/06/27 Fatten Your Wallet AND Your Recording Capacity
02/06/26 Three Little Speculations
02/06/25 Dick Davis #23-#24
02/06/24 The Real Estate Bubble
02/06/21 Less, Robert, Steve, Debra and the Mystery of the Pregnant Queen
02/06/20 True
02/06/19 Dick Davis on the Insignificance of News
02/06/18 Let's Write a Novel
02/06/17 More Dick Davis (20-21)
02/06/14 Indeed
02/06/13 The Estate of French Nurses
02/06/12 Should the Estate Tax Apply to Index Funds?
02/06/11 The Estate Tax Bite on Some Who Oppose It
02/06/10 Borrowing from Your Kids
02/06/07 Wise Ass
02/06/06 Dick Davis on Index Funds
02/06/05 A Billion Here and A Billion There and . . .
02/06/04 And What If You Were Using Your Fingers Instead of a Calculator?
02/06/03 It Depends on What Your Definition of “Obscene” Is
02/05/31 Take the Money You Save on Hotels and Keep It Fully Invested
02/05/30 Kill the CFO? Put Him to Work? Boycott Exxon
02/05/29 Dick Davis, Breasts, and More
02/05/27 Who’s Looking Out for the Other Shareholders?
02/05/24 Dick Davis - Items 8-11
02/05/23 Dick Davis - Item #7
02/05/22 Dick Davis - Part 2
02/05/21 Who’s Dick Davis?
02/05/20 Should We Make the Tax Cuts Permanent?
02/05/17 An e-String Around Your Finger
02/05/16 I-Bonds Again
02/05/15 More on Financial Planners
02/05/14 Steward! There’s a Financial Planner in My Overhead Compartment!
02/05/13 Adopt a Classroom
02/05/10 Am I Too Gloomy?
02/05/09 A Lone Voice in the Liberal Wilderness
02/05/08 Mergers, 529s, Pocket Holes
02/05/07 What They’re Saying In The Official Arab Press
02/05/06 Fixing Our Finances
02/05/03 Is 63 Too Old to Start?
02/05/02 Cheap Digs and the Three-Kick Rule
02/05/01 Getting a Cheap Room in Jerusalem for Your Friend's Gay Son
02/04/30 Can I Switch IRA $ to a 529?
02/04/29 An eMail from Saul Kramer
02/04/26 Neither a Borrower Nor a Lender Be – But This Could Help
02/04/25 Brain Closed for Repairs
02/04/24 Short-Term Bonanza, Long-Term Crunch?
02/04/23 Trapped with My Broker - Part 2
02/04/22 An Stock to Consider
02/04/19 Click . . .
02/04/18 Can Value Line Beat an Index Fund?
02/04/17 Hey, Kids -- Free Smokes!
02/04/16 Life Is Not a Business
02/04/15 A Look Back at November 27, 2000
02/04/12 Your Wife, Your Copyright, Your Professional IQ
02/04/11 Help! My Home's Getting Too Valuable!
02/04/10 Pedal, Please
02/04/09 Vision Warrior
02/04/08 Miles for Tax Payments
02/04/05 Feedback
02/04/04 Oy.
02/04/03 Closed for Refueling
02/04/02 2.9 Cents a Minute?
02/04/01 Cheap Phone, Flat Tax, Mint Coke
02/03/28 Drink to Peace
02/03/26 Three Good Reasons
02/03/27 Wino, Wino, Wino Did I Ever Start This Thread?
02/03/25 Good Question
02/03/22 Springtime Diversification
02/03/21 Goldie Goes to Bhubneshwar
02/03/20 Brock Inverses – Switching From Left To Right
02/03/19 Then Why Not Give Greenspan the Vestal Virgins?
02/03/18 Covering the Boob and Drawing the Line at Justice
02/03/15 A Slightly Higher Yield
02/03/14 Clever Headline TK
02/03/13 Another Roth Plus and an Open Letter (Not Mine) to Crown Prince Abdullah
02/03/12 The Three-Account Strategy; Funds-of-Funds; Tivo
02/03/11 When To Use Limit Orders
02/03/08 More Short Stories
02/03/07 Lucy, Tivo and the Peso
02/03/06 Really? He Anointeth His Head with Oil?
02/03/05 What to Hold in a Roth vs. a Traditional IRA
02/03/04 Investors: This Is Really Important
02/03/01 Short Iraqi REITs at Twice the Price
02/02/28 Andy Day: No Columns Feb 29 or 30
02/02/27 UGMA, Ugh and TiVo
02/02/26 Demystifying . . . Something?
02/02/25 UGMA - and Enron
02/02/22 David and Arianna
02/02/21 More Free Money
02/02/20 Buy on Bankruptcy
02/02/19 Free Money
02/02/18 My Favorite Valentine
02/02/15 If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead?
02/02/14 Where Does the Money GO?
02/02/13 Boref & Noble
02/02/12 The Pro Who Shorted Enron
02/02/11 More Long-Term Care Insurance
02/02/08 Rolling Down the Yield Curve
02/02/07 From Lithuania to Long-term Care Insurance
02/02/06 Priorities: YOU Decide
02/02/05 McWhortle: A Very Small Cap Indeed
02/02/04 Ah, the Things We Take for Granted
02/02/01 Lowering the Capital Gains Rate To ZERO
02/01/31 Discourage Waste, Not Work
02/01/30 Ground Hog Day
02/01/29 Lowering Your Capital Gains Rate (Really)
02/01/28 Lowering Your Capital Gains Rate
02/01/25 Spaceship Earth
02/01/24 Amazon; Cow Accounting
02/01/23 Could Ken Lay Afford an Italian Mortgage?
02/01/22 Japanese Vampire Tanks Up at Sunoco, Not Enron
02/01/18 Enron
02/01/17 Minty Fresh Breath -- $2.99
02/01/16 I Broke MuniDirect!
02/01/15 Exxon's Response
02/01/14 New Year’s Review
02/01/11 But Don’t (Necessarily) Sell Your XOM
02/01/09 Exxoff
02/01/08 Hip Hop
02/01/07 Over My QUIVERING Dead Body
02/01/04 Piping Up for Bush
02/01/03 More New Year Mishmash
02/01/02 Happy New Year!
01/12/28 The Treaty of Tripoli
01/12/27 He's Not Gonna Resign - Get Over It
01/12/26 Have a Donut
01/12/24 We Did It!
01/12/21 Our Country, Our Constitution, and the Bible
01/12/20 Poor? It's Your Own Fault
01/12/19 Marble? Shag? Parquet?
01/12/18 Buy the Book?
01/12/17 Oysters - Part II
01/12/14 Oysters
01/12/13 Anything Here Worth Our Attention?
01/12/12 Removing Wallpaper
01/12/11 How Much of YOUR Money Is in the Cayman Islands?
01/12/10 Meet the Vice Pressident
01/12/07 The Rich Get Richer (Thank Heavens!)
01/12/06 Schedule Change
01/12/05 A Grand Time
01/12/04 Ah, Hindsight
01/12/03 Boing!
01/11/30 Earn 45% -- Fully Secured
01/11/29 Smoking Potpouri
01/11/28 Going Up?
01/11/27 Calico Cats - II
01/11/26 Let the Private Sector Do It
01/11/21 Conservatives Who Part Ways with Ashcroft On This One
01/11/20 Turns Out It's Not the Black Cats You Have to Watch Out For
01/11/19 Energy Policy: Le Boeuf et Le Salmon
01/11/16 Getting Rich -- It's So Easy!
01/11/15 Greed
01/11/14 The New I-Bond Rate: 2%
01/11/13 Mike Bloomberg, New York's Mayor-Elect
01/11/12 John Adams with Bose Speakers
01/11/09 What -- No Upgrade?
01/11/08 Used Books
01/11/07 The Tax Tirade
01/11/06 Go, Cisco! Go vote!
01/11/05 Travel Advisory
01/11/02 Taunt? Theme? Refrain? Lament?
01/11/01 Stimulating Tax Cuts
01/10/31 Boo! Scary Economic Policy
01/10/30 It's Not Just ADRs!
01/10/29 Is “Buy and Hold” Old Hat? (Really)
01/10/26 Is “Buy and Hold” Old Hat?
01/10/25 Is It Unpatriotic to Short the Dow?
01/10/24 Homeopathy, Hackers and High Efficiency
01/10/23 Homeopathetic? 90 mpg? Your Geothermal Home?
01/10/22 Oscillococcinum, Not Cipro
01/10/19 Rev?on, Seatbelts, and a Big Part of the Solution
01/10/18 Columnists
01/10/17 Your Next Vacation (Really)
01/10/16 Your Next Vacation
01/10/15 You've Lost Weight!
01/10/12 Second Opinions
01/10/10 Take Heart!
01/10/11 Don't Worry -- Be Happy!
10/01/10 Don't Worry -- Be Happy!
01/10/09 Take a Tax Loss But Stay in the Game?
01/10/08 I-Bonds, Idea, Iran, I Am that I Am
01/10/05 Osama bin Laden -- a Transsexual?
01/10/04 Fly Someplace, by God!
01/10/03 San Francisco, Gaza and Afghanistan
01/10/02 Blowback and The Jerusalem Post
01/10/01 Israel
01/09/28 Two Analyses
01/09/27 Why They Hate Us
01/09/26 How You Pay Your Bills - Part II
01/09/25 The Economist, the Herald, and NPR
01/09/23 A Different Kind of War
01/09/21 Overslept!
01/09/20 A Marine's Mom Speaks
01/09/19 We've Won!
01/09/18 Letter from an Afghan
01/09/17 It Was My Fault
01/09/14 More
01/09/13 Now What?
01/09/12 No Words
01/09/11 No Words
01/09/10 Good Deal
01/09/07 Starting a new business?
01/09/06 PayTrust
01/09/05 What Bibliophiles You Are!
01/09/03 WHO KNEW? An Important Money-Saving Tip
01/08/31 Puff, Puff 2
01/08/30 Puff Puff
01/08/29 Borrowing to Buy Munis
01/08/28 More TIPS Tips
01/08/27 The Bullish Case for Stocks and 20 Specific Recommendations
01/08/24 Summer Rerun
01/08/23 tIPS Tips and TiVo
01/08/22 deep Thoughts.
01/08/21 An American in Paris
01/08/20 Bye-Bye Surplus; Hedging Your Portfolio
01/08/17 The Widow Linda and . . .
01/08/16 Searching My Archives
01/08/15 Four Quick Ones
01/08/14 The Missile Shield
01/08/13 The President's IQ - Part II
01/08/10 mistaken Identity
01/08/09 Of Undiversified 401(k)s and Unworthy Mutual Funds
01/08/08 More 80-Year-Old Men
01/08/07 More Good News If You're a Wealthy Oil Guy
01/08/06 The Bush IQ (and Offshore Tax Havens)
01/08/03 Exercising Your Incentive Stock Options - Part III
01/08/02 Suited to a Tea; Trent Lott, Man of the People
01/08/01 Exercising Your Incentive Stock Options – Part II
01/07/31 Exercising Your Incentive Stock Options
01/07/30 Junk Bonds Wobbly Gyros, and Marriage Bonds
01/07/27 The Legal Blonde, the Sleazy Bank, The Begged Question, and the Gift Annuity
01/07/26 How the World Really Works
01/07/25 Prudential’s Imminent Demutualization
01/07/24 Sorry!
01/07/23 Here Come The $300 / $600 Checks!
01/07/20 Painting the Tape
01/07/19 Follow-Ups
01/07/18 The $500 Billion Popsicle
01/07/17 Dog, Gain, Link, Link
01/07/16 QUIDS, Pros, and Cons
01/07/13 My Lucky Day!
01/07/12 Don't Buy My Book
01/07/11 The 50-Year Loss Carryforward
01/07/10 Money Market Funds
01/07/09 CN, But First a Word about Bread
01/07/05 Some Other Good Things About The Tax Cut
01/07/03 Lucky Us
01/07/02 Fuzzy Math
01/06/29 Did You Say . . . Tobacco? Or ‘To Backhoe’?
01/06/28 Try, Try Again
01/06/27 Cheap Eats, Cheap Sleep
01/06/26 Berlin Braces for Tornado
01/06/25 Ex-Dividend Date for Smokers on Santorini
01/06/22 Irish Need Not Apply
01/06/21 Summer's Here!
01/06/20 Or You Could Just Buy a Used Saturn
01/06/19 Tobacco and Tax Havens
01/06/18 Little Bank, Neat Idea
01/06/15 Finding the Next Buffett
01/06/14 Maybe We Should Give Orphans Marlboros . . .
01/06/13 He's . . . Snortling?
01/06/12 Is Your Mutual Fund Manager Gorgeous?
01/06/11 Is Your Mutual Fund Manager Gorgeous? Uh, oh.
01/06/09 When You'll Get Your $300 -- and What to Do with It
01/06/08 When You’ll Get Your $300 and What to do with It
01/06/07 Good Deals
01/06/06 Did You Click on This Value Site?
01/06/05 An Exasperation of Morons
01/06/04 Calton – and (Keep Reading) a Few Words about Index Funds
01/06/01 There's No W in the hite House Keyboard!
01/05/31 Some Good Things about the Tax Cut
01/05/30 The Name Game
01/05/27 Memorial Day, TiVo, A Ridiculous Stock . . .
01/05/24 London Observer
01/05/23 42% -- Guaranteed
01/05/22 A Cabana in Havana
01/05/21 Historical Footnote
01/05/18 Calton Homes
01/05/17 COO-BA – Part 2
01/05/16 COO-BA!
01/05/15 P/E HOG
01/05/11 Mom
01/05/10 The Liberal Press
01/05/09 Privatizing Social Security - Part II
01/05/08 Fly Fishing
01/05/07 Chicken Delight
01/05/04 Privatizing Social Security
01/05/03 Fishing . . .
01/05/02 IBM and the Holocaust - II
01/05/01 IBM and the Holocaust
01/04/30 Voice Mail Tricks and Easter Eggs
01/04/27 AT&T Wireless
01/04/26 Uh-Ohs
01/04/25 What You Didn't See on 'Meet the Press'
01/04/24 TiVo and Tax-Frees
01/04/23 Floods and the Tooth Fairy
01/04/20 Are You Ready for the Flood?
01/04/19 Are You Ready for a Heart Attack?
01/04/18 Gunning for a Tax Cut
01/04/17 A House of Cards – and a Plain Old House
01/04/16 Credit Card Reflux; Reagonomics Redux
01/04/13 Malcolm in the Middle, Florida in a Muddle
01/04/12 Dinner Out: An Hour to Eat It, 39 Years to Pay It Off
01/04/11 A Good Year to Convert to a Roth IRA?
01/04/10 Free Stuff
01/04/09 Analyze THIS
01/04/06 Why Does Anyone Listen to Analysts?
01/04/05 Awaiting the Fat Lady
01/04/04 Are You Getting 100% or 3%?
01/04/03 What Advice Would YOU Give These 400 MBA Candidates?
01/04/02 More Puts
01/03/30 Life's Asterisk
01/03/29 Cheap Suits and Campaign Reform
01/03/28 Ralph W. Nader
01/03/27 Selling Puts
01/03/26 How Low Can We Go?
01/03/23 Used Car Ad
01/03/22 Plugs and Poesy
01/03/21 Ask Less
01/03/20 It’s Different This Time
01/03/19 $end Ca$h
01/03/16 Friday Wrap-Up
01/03/15 Hoes, Butts, and Haikus
01/03/14 Jewish Haikus
01/03/13 Is THIS the Bottom?
01/03/12 Power Shift
01/03/09 Tainted Money
01/03/08 Tidbits
01/03/07 Step Right Up
01/03/06 Tuesday, Thursday, Monday, Friday . . .
01/03/05 The Old Dog Ate My I-Bonds
01/03/02 Your Tax Feedback
01/03/01 My Life Is Now Complete
01/02/28 The Bush Tax Cut
01/02/27 Gone Fishing
01/02/26 Why There Are 24 Hours in a Day
01/02/23 Tax Nits
01/02/22 Quick Takes
01/02/21 Don’t Count Your Double-Digit Chickens
01/02/20 Clickle Trickle
01/02/16 Clickles – At Last!
01/02/15 Loose Ends
01/02/14 Your Options, L.J.’s Sweater, Etc.
01/02/13 A Few Words of Caution
01/02/12 Take the Day Off
01/02/09 The Death Tax; Weekend Reading
01/02/08 Two Things
01/02/07 401k’s at 15% – and More TiVo
01/02/06 Airfares and Education
01/02/05 Bird Guts and Cheap Shirts
01/02/02 Their Kids, Your Money
01/02/01 TiVo!
01/01/29 Denim . . . the Sequel
01/01/26 Do NOT Buy . . .
01/01/25 Cancer, Anyone?
01/01/24 My KEYCHAIN Has a Higher IQ Than Some PEOPLE
01/01/23 Four Suggestions for AOL
01/01/31 Kids and Money
01/01/30 Education vs. the Estate Tax
01/01/22 Have You Checked Your Term Life Insurance Lately?
01/01/19 Kids and Money
01/01/18 Bioterrorist Installs Dim Bulbs
01/01/17 More Biotech
01/01/16 Follow-Up: Books on Tape
01/01/15 Follow-Up: Bio-Tech Root Beer from Equifax
01/01/12 Our Astounding Bio-Tech Future
01/01/11 A Uniter, Not a Divider
01/01/10 Recommendations
01/01/09 Is the Gloom and Doom Overdone? Too Rare?
01/01/08 Get Rich Fast with Commodities Speculation
01/01/05 Sending the Grandkids to College, Commutatively
01/01/04 Rothschild Started as a Coin Dealer, Too
01/01/03 Oh, Wonderful!
01/01/02 Give me a T! Give me a U!
00/12/29 Drive Safely!
00/12/28 Losers
00/12/27 Tom Kabat's Excellent Idea
00/12/26 Dimples, Pimples . . . Where Will It End?
00/12/22 Stay Warm...
00/12/21 Important Two-Liners You May Not Have Considered
00/12/20 QuickSearch, QuickBrowse, QuickStocks
00/12/19 And Speaking of Dim Bulbs . . .
00/12/18 President of ALL the People
00/12/15 Closed-End Funds - IV
00/12/13 The Planet's New Leader
00/12/12 xgshfjg
00/12/11 Two Reasons This Is a Great Country
00/12/08 Closed-End Funds - III
00/12/07 Source Code! Source Code!
00/12/06 Closed-End Funds II
00/12/05 Closed-End Funds
00/12/04 Count or Concede!
00/12/03 Count or Concede
00/12/01 Crashing Stocks, Hamlet, and More
00/11/30 Hold the Fort, Waterboy!
00/11/29 First-Hand Accounts
00/11/28 I-Bonds, X.com, Junk, Spunk and Funk
00/11/27 Going for Yield; Counting the Votes
00/11/24 The Fifty-First State
00/11/22 Thanksgiving
00/11/21 Three Things You Should Know
00/11/20 More MONEY!
00/11/17 MONEY!
00/11/16 The View from Abroad - II
00/11/15 Views from Abroad
00/11/14 The Adams Family
00/11/13 We Live in Interesting Times
00/11/10 I've Got a Better Idea
00/11/09 I'VE Got an Idea
00/11/08 If I've Said It Once . . .
00/11/07 Please Vote Your Self-Interest
00/11/06 Are There No Orphanages?
00/11/03 Forget the DWI -- Where's the Trillion?
00/11/02 Question
00/11/01 The Surplus vs the Debt
00/10/31 I Hate Halloween
00/10/30 Apparently, I'm Not the Only One Who Thinks Ralph Nader Is a Big Fat Idiot
00/10/27 Saving for College; Hank Gillette for President
00/10/26 Privatizing the Debt
00/10/25 Gore is Going to Win - II
00/10/24 Gore is Going to Win
00/10/23 The Market
00/10/20 Potpouri
00/10/19 FOUR UNRELATED ITEMS
00/10/18 Equal Time
00/10/17 Which Candidate Can You REALLY Trust?
00/10/16 Tomorrow
00/10/13 Friday the 13th
00/10/12 The Market Collapse
00/10/11 Tonight's Debate: A Kiss Is Just a Kiss, A Sigh is Just a Sigh
00/10/10 Three Good Ones
00/10/09 Lower Taxes
00/10/06 The Death Penalty - II
00/10/05 Life Insurance and Build Your Own Creature
00/10/04 Adventures in IPO Land
00/10/03 Tonight's Debate
00/10/02 The Last Word on Watermelon
00/09/29 How to De-Seed Watermelon
00/09/28 Cooking Like a GuyÔ
00/09/27 Steve Meyer's Wheel Of Misfortune
00/09/26 Low-Cost Variable Annuities
00/09/25 Betting the Ranch
00/09/22 Opting for Foreign Stocks
00/09/21 Deep-In-The-Money Calls -- Who'd Sell 'Em?
00/09/20 Feedback
00/09/19 You Bought Options?
00/09/18 Searching -- Archives and Buttons
00/09/15 Top Ten
00/09/14 Avoid that 10%-20% Retirement Surcharge
00/09/13 Found Money!
00/09/12 Feedback on the Issues of Our Day
00/09/11 Feedback on the Lesser Issues
00/09/08 Maybe I Should Give This Genius $20,0000
00/09/07 A Novel Mutual Fund Fee Structure
00/09/06 I Give a Young Genius $20,000 to Beat the Market
00/09/05 Could This Really Be Optimal?
00/09/01 Risk Grades
00/08/31 Investment Clubs
00/08/30 Divisive Issues
00/08/29 ValuEngine.com
00/08/28 No Guts; Phone Home
00/08/25 Are You Ready to Be Your Own Fund Manager?
00/08/24 Read His Lips
00/08/23 Loose Ends
00/08/22 Who Wants to be a Millionaire?
00/08/21 On Being Partisan
00/08/18 The Party's Over
00/08/17 Amendments
00/08/16 Net Worth / Self Worth
00/08/15 Party On!
00/08/14 The Convention Hasn't Started, and Already I'm Exhausted
00/08/11 Internet Tidbits
00/08/10 The First Embarrassment is Having to Find Mauritania
00/08/09 Well, If He Couldn’t Be a Doctor . . .
00/08/07 Tax Cuts
00/08/04 The Week’s Feedback
00/08/03 Kill the One-Cent Stamp
00/08/02 Buy High, Sell Low
00/08/01 Friends Write . . .
00/07/31 Any Boy - II
00/07/28 Hi-Yo Silver!
00/07/27 Reversion to the Mean Coin Flippers
00/07/26 A First Look at Dick Cheney
00/07/25 No Column Today
00/07/24 What's $1.70 Worth?
00/07/21 The Long View II
00/07/20 The Long View
00/07/19 Short Takes
00/07/18 Where to Put $15,000
00/07/17 Of Extravagance and Parsimony
00/07/14 A Good Site for Cheap Life Insurance
00/07/13 SOME Dot.coms Are Still Willing to Give Away the Store
00/07/12 Do You Need an Estate Plan? Do Your Folks?
00/07/11 What Every Bartender Should Know about Magic
00/07/10 Tech Stocks vs Tech Funds
00/07/07 Free Palms, Hell, Lobster, and a Cash Stash
00/07/06 Three Handy Things
00/07/05 TIPS and I-Bonds As Investments Within a Roth IRA?
00/07/03 Where Do Maine Lobsters Come From?
00/06/30 What They're Teaching at Medical School
00/06/29 G.O.D. , Amazon, and Professional Money Managers
00/06/28 Copenhagen and Copyrights III
00/06/27 Copenhagen and Copyrights II
00/06/26 Modern Magic
00/06/23 Zeke and Josiah
00/06/22 Summer Re-Runs?
00/06/21 G.O.D.
00/06/20 Copenhagen and Copyrights
00/06/19 Thor He's a Jolly Good Fellow
00/06/16 Stepped Out for Lunch, Back Soon
00/06/15 Voting, Schmoting
00/06/14 Would Ralph Nader Buy a Rolex?
00/06/13 The Honor Virus
00/06/12 Ralph Nader Really IS a Big Fat Idiot
00/06/09 How the Housewife of 2000 Will Clean Up
00/06/08 Dear Dr. Laura
00/06/07 Has Warren Buffett Got a Deal for You?
00/06/06 Imprudential, Yet Again
00/06/05 More Stupidity
00/06/02 Stupid and It's the Economy, Stupid
00/06/01 Buying a Single Share as a Gift
00/05/31 Tellme
00/05/30 Maytag? Are You Listening?
00/05/26 The Other Gypsy Curse
00/05/25 Annuities Again
00/05/24 Are you a Rep or a Dem?
00/05/23 Are You Bullish or Bearish?
00/05/18 OK, Then -- Click HERE
00/05/17 The Second Best Thing I've Read All Year
00/05/16 Register
00/05/15 Series I Savings Bonds
00/05/12 An Investment That Guarantees You'll Beat Inflation (Before Taxes, Anyway)
00/05/11 Where To Put Money You'll Need In 5 Years
00/05/10 How Should You Allocate that 401(k)?
00/05/09 Allocating Your Assets
00/05/08 Little Guy Investing
00/05/05 Reader Mail: Free Trades, Cheap Power, MYM Quotes, the March
00/05/04 The Best Thing I've Read All Year
00/05/03 Real Estate Investment Trusts
00/05/02 Hang on! I'm coming!
00/05/01 It's 10 O'Clock. Does Your Insurer Know Where Your Car Is?
00/04/28 PS: Annual Reports, First Class, Freetrade
00/04/27 Annual Reports II
00/04/26 Flying First Class
00/04/25 Goop
00/04/24 Looking for . . .
00/04/21 The Matrix Stew
00/04/20 Andy Day
00/04/19 The Virtual Broker
00/04/18 Virtually Free
00/04/17 It’s the End of the World!
00/04/14 Now That I Have Only 4 Readers Left
00/04/13 The Column Too Embarrassed to Have a Title
00/04/12 The Final Word on Mining - I Promise
00/04/11 Cooking Like a Guy™
00/04/10 Loose Ends
00/04/07 Oh, God, It's the Mining Thing Again
00/04/06 Are Margin Accounts Risky?
00/04/05 Cheap Gas, Spackling With Colgate . . .
00/04/04 Going Private
00/04/03 Wise Words from a Republican
00/03/31 Black Tie Optional
00/03/30 Wacky Web Site
00/03/29 Cheap Gas
00/03/28 A Stock That's Still Surely Going to Zero
00/03/27 MYM and Molydumum
00/03/24 Sites You Like
00/03/23 Back to the Salt Mines
00/03/22 Let's Hear It for Metal!
00/03/21 Munis, Life Insurance
00/03/20 Up 18% in Three Days
00/03/17 Beating Taxes
00/03/16 Squeeze the Shorts?
00/03/15 Omahaha
00/03/14 Five Stocks You Should Consider
00/03/13 Descartes Did Not Die of Lung Cancer in Kokomo
00/03/10 Omaha
00/03/09 Boosting the Folks' Retirement
00/03/08 Take the Day Off
00/03/07 Fund Costs
00/03/06 California Props
00/03/03 Reader Mail
00/03/02 And Still It's Indiana
00/03/01 The Short Story
00/02/29 Some Things I Didn't Know about John McCain
00/02/28 Three Signs
00/02/25 Three Sites
00/02/23 Insuring Your Portfolio
00/02/22 Bong, Bong - You're Dead!
00/02/18 Reader Mail
00/02/17 Options
00/02/16 Those Lovable Tobacco Execs
00/02/15 The Marriage Penalty
00/02/14 Love Is in the Air
00/02/11 The Lunatics Take Over - Yippee!
00/02/10 Slightly Frightening E-Mails
00/02/09 Explosive Cooking News
00/02/08 Saving for College - Part II
00/02/07 Short Takes
00/02/04 What Every Beneficiary Should Know About Her Dad's IRA
00/02/03 Mutual Fund Expenses Are a Drag
00/02/02 Friendly Suggestions
00/02/01 Important Things to Know
00/01/31 Nervous about the Market
00/01/28 More Free Money
00/01/27 My 1000th Internet Column
00/01/26 Reader Mail
00/01/25 It Is SO Hard - Your Feedback
00/01/24 Stock-Splitting Parrot Jokes You Can Post on Your Own Registered Web Site
00/01/21 Cooking Like a Guy™
00/01/20 Why, Overpriced As I Think It Is, You Should NOT Short Yahoo
00/01/19 Our Little Stock Quadrupled!
00/01/18 IRA Withdrawals
00/01/17 IRA Withdrawals
00/01/14 Live Free or Die
00/01/13 It Is SO Hard
00/01/12 AOL Swallows Time
00/01/11 Grow or Die?
00/01/10 Free Stuff, Hunger, and Y2K
00/01/07 Knock, Knock. Yahoo’s There?
00/01/06 Deals and Meals
00/01/05 Cooking Like a Guy™
99/12/30 Anything Is Possible
99/12/29 What's Wrong with the Hunger Site?
99/12/28 Free Food from Priceline.com
99/12/27 Tax-Buying?
99/12/23 a Christmas Poem.
99/12/22 Tax-Deductible Vacations
99/12/21 Food for Thought
99/12/20 Yup. Nope.
99/12/17 It's Andy Day!
99/12/16 Vitamins, Herbs and Grapes
99/12/15 So How DO You Pay for College?
99/12/14 Variable Universal Life to Pay for College?
99/12/13 Cooking Like a Guy™
99/12/12 Special Sunday Birthday Edition
99/12/10 - Will There Be a Y2K Panic?
99/12/09 Sell Before Y2K? Dig Up Dinosaurs?
99/12/08 Used Laptops, Dryer Lint and Vitamin F
99/12/07 PS - I Love You
99/12/06 When Do We Cut Taxes?
00/01/03 Happy New Year
99/12/03 Preferreds and Area Codes
99/12/02 Well, Here's a Bright Idea
99/12/01 Preferred Stocks
99/11/30 The New Area Codes
99/11/29 Monday, Wednesday, Friday
99/11/26 I'm Alive!
99/11/24 Three More Things to be Thankful For
99/11/23 Talk About Your Nutritional Supplements!
99/11/22 And You?
99/11/19 Imprudential
99/11/18 The Ultimate Phonebook
99/11/17 Good Things Come in Threes
99/11/16 A Stock That's Surely Going to Zero
99/11/15 Underappreciated Stocks
99/11/12 Sorry!
99/11/11 Underappreciated Vegetables
99/11/10 This Week
99/11/09 How Dorothy Cleans Her Clothes
99/11/08 Missing Conference Calls
99/11/05 No Thank You, Paine Webber
99/11/04 Photo ID Visas; AOL & BOL
99/11/03 Loose Ends
99/11/02 Vote!
99/11/01 Give Some Good Cause the T-Shirt off Your Back
99/10/29 QBFI
99/10/28 Amazing
99/10/27 Totally Free Phone Service
99/10/26 Ode to an Undergarment
99/10/22 Dow 36,000?
99/10/21 Extraordinary Popular Delusions, part II
99/10/20 Are Internet Stocks Today's Tulips?
99/10/19 Extraordinary Popular Delusions
99/10/18 Who's Irene?
99/10/15 Goodnight, Irene
99/10/14 Signing Your Credit Card
99/10/13 Save Fifty Bucks?
99/10/12 The Height of Compassion
99/10/11 Closed for Columbus Day
99/10/08 Following the Senator
99/10/07 Specifying WHICH Shares - Part 2
99/10/06 Wanted: A Trustful Mutual Fund
99/10/05 Yuccas and Suckas
99/10/04 OK -- Stupid
99/10/01 Options, Futures, and Employee Stock Purchase Plans
99/09/30 Is Your Fund Manager Smarter than a Yucca?
99/09/29 Cool Stuff to Do
99/09/28 Overlawyered.com
99/09/27 Shorting a Dying Stock
99/09/24 Less Amore, Fewer Morays
99/09/23 Why Consider Mutual Fund Cost at ALL When It's Already Figured into Performance?!
99/09/22 A Broken Clock That's Right All Day
99/09/21 Double Taxation
99/09/20 How to Specify WHICH Shares of a Stock or Fund You're Selling
99/09/17 Where Can I Find a Good Romantic Mutual Fund?
99/09/16 What To Do If Your 401(k) Offers Rotten Mutual Fund Choices
99/09/15 Iced Tea, Diet Chocolate Soda, A Brief English Lesson, and What To Do If Your 401(k) Offers Rotten Mutual Fund Choices
99/09/14 Fund-Shopping (and More)
99/09/13 When to Sell a Mutual Fund
99/09/10 Reader Mail
99/09/09 Gambling on Gambling
99/09/08 What Does Your Mutual Fund Really Cost?
99/09/07 Welcome back!
99/09/03 Fire & Ice: The End (of Summer)
99/09/02 Reactions
99/09/01 mothers.
99/08/31 Her Mutual Wants to Demutualize
99/08/30 Ringling Bros Insurance
99/08/27 Youropoly
99/08/26 Annuities, Futures . . .
99/08/25 Which Are Better: Spiders or Index Funds?
99/08/24 Reader Mail: Laps; TicketMaster
99/08/23 Vanguard's Low-Expense Annuities
99/08/20 Nail Polish, Shoe Polish -- It's a Fit!
99/08/19 More Summer Madness: Underwater Radios
99/08/18 Not the Worst Company, After All
99/08/17 Cheap Books; Cheap Annuities
99/08/16 So What ABOUT Those Real Estate Infomercial Guys?
99/08/13 World's Best & Worst Companies
99/08/12 A Word about These Daily Quotes
99/08/11 Better Safe than Sorry
99/08/10 Good Ways to Avoid Late Fees
99/08/09 Definitive Answers
99/08/06 Those Late Fees, Again
99/08/05 Hate Crimes
99/08/04 More on Your Mortgage
99/08/03 The GM Card
99/08/02 Biweekly Loans
99/07/30 More on Annuities
99/07/29 Another $15 for You
99/07/28 Are Cheap Books as Good as the Full-Priced Kind? - II
99/07/27 Annuity Insanity (Still)
99/07/26 Run a Small Business? Got a Maid?
99/07/23 Japan; and What Revson Really Thought About Women
99/07/22 The Little Search Engine that Could
99/07/21 Are Cheap Books as Good as the Full-Priced Kind?
99/07/20 11.9% Guaranteed
99/07/19 Get Out of Debt Free
99/07/16 All News, All the Time -- Even Under Water?
99/07/15 Reader Mail
99/07/14 Can You Do Well AND Do Good?
99/07/13 He Who Controls Seinfeld Laughs Last
99/07/12 Send Andy to Kansas
99/07/09 Hunger - II
99/07/08 Hunger
99/07/07 Costly Addictions VI - The Smith Corona Caper
99/07/06 Reader Mail - Gift for a Newborn
99/07/02 The 223-Year Bull Market
99/07/01 Here's $30, Maybe More
99/06/30 Costly Addictions - V
99/06/29 Costly Addictions - IV
99/06/28 The Priest and the Checking Account
99/06/25 Costly Addictions - III
99/06/24 Costly Addictions - II
99/06/23 Costly Addictions
99/06/22 A Cautionary Tale for On-Line Traders
99/06/21 Lower Your Insurance Costs!
99/06/18 That New Car Smell
99/06/17 More Short Takes
99/06/16 Short Takes
99/06/15 Quarterly Estimated Income Tax Due Today
99/06/13 Presidential Proclamation
99/06/14 Of Life Insurance and the Marriage Bonus
99/06/11 Fire & Ice - Chapter 11
99/06/10 Malibu Hardball
99/06/09 Are AOL and Yahoo Buys?
99/06/08 Priceline.com (the Good Experiences)
99/06/07 Three Money-Saving Ideas
99/06/04 Don't Read This If You Hate the President
99/06/03 Priceline Stories, Please?
99/06/02 Short-Sales, Fermat, Flying Cars
99/06/01 Q-Page
99/05/28 Re: My Astonishing Panelists
99/02/01 Grover and Newt
99/05/27 There Will Be No Column Today
99/05/26 My Astonishing Panelists
99/05/25 Fire & Ice - Chapter 10
99/05/24 Gloom and Boom
99/05/21 "Issued and Outstanding"
99/05/20 Fire & Ice - Chapter 9
99/05/19 Who Will Care for Us?
99/05/18 More wealthy than Roman emperors?
99/05/17 When to Get in on a Hot IPO
99/05/14 Still More Compound Interest
99/05/13 More Mail Tricks
99/05/12 Reader Mail: Bees, Mary Poppins, etc. . .
99/05/11 Reader Mail: IRAs, MYM and More
99/05/10 The Bees' Knees
99/05/07 Fire & Ice and My New Luggage
99/05/06 Millions & Billions
99/05/05 Are You Really Worth $230 Million? And if not . . .
99/05/04 The Market Scale
99/05/03 Quickbrowse Even Better!
99/04/30 If Only Methuselah Had Lived 100 More Years
99/04/29 More Reader Mail: Gift Certificates and E*Trade
99/04/28 Reader Mail
99/04/27 What the Heck Were You Doing in Mississippi?
99/04/26 Mississippi is Northwest Territory
99/04/23 More Fire, More Ice
99/04/02 More Fire, More Ice
99/04/22 How Fast Did the Nifty 50 Drop?
99/04/21 My Invaluable $10 Gift Certificate - Part II
99/04/20 Used Software
99/04/19 Mail Call -- Another Trick
99/04/16 Yes, He Painted His Nails
99/04/15 More on Asset Allocation
99/04/14 Is The New World Order: "Buy!"?
99/04/13 Mail Call -- What's Today's Trick?
99/04/12 My Invaluable $10
99/04/09 AOL - A Steal at 681 Times Earnings?
99/04/08 Foreign Stocks & ADR's - Part 2
99/04/07 Time to Invest in Japan?
00/01/04 Andy - Ruff predictions notes
99/04/06 Quickbrowse!
99/04/02 Morningstars -- How Meaningful?
99/04/01 Deep Thoughts
99/03/31 Whatever Happened to Uri?
99/03/30 Uri Geller - Part Deux
99/03/29 Who Pays the Freight on ADRs?
99/03/26 And Speaking of Paying Down Loans . . .
99/03/25 Reader Mail: Social Security
99/03/24 Okay, He Averted World War III, But Can He bend a Nail?
99/03/23 Not Quite As Strong As They Seem
99/03/22 Jason's Plight
99/03/19 Prepayment Versus Investment - Part 207
99/03/18 Prepayment Versus Investment - Part 206
99/03/17 Taxation Frustration
99/03/16 Master Limited Partnerships
99/03/15 If Only Mass Were Mich
99/03/12 How to Aggravate Practically Everybody Without Even Trying
99/03/11 Title Insurance -- Hope on the Horizon
99/03/10 The Dow 12 Pig Poke Clickle Fund Report Day Traders
99/03/09 Grass Roots Fun
99/03/08 Trouble Ahead for the Market?
99/03/05 Reader Mail: One Small Point, One Large
99/03/04 Title Insurance - Second Attempt
99/03/03 Title Insurance
99/03/02 Pay Down Your 6% Mortgage?
99/03/01 My Word
99/02/26 Mutual Fund Disclosure
99/02/25 Reader Mail
99/02/24 Happy Andyday
99/02/23 Do the Indexes Reflect Dividends?
99/02/22 Bill’s Excellent Proposal
99/02/19 Why These Stupid One-Cent Stamps?
99/02/18 Dow 14,000
99/02/17 Why Most Funds Can't Consistently Beat the Market
99/02/16 More Fall-Out from My Skepticism
99/02/12 Fish-and-Chips So Good We’ll Pay You $1.09 to Eat Them
99/02/11 Praise for Booksamillion
99/02/10 Can Greg and Joshua Beat the Market? - Part II
99/02/09 Can Greg and Joshua Beat the Market?
99/02/08 Are the Lights on Down There?
99/02/05 You Still Read This Column, You Really Do!*
99/02/04 Beating the Market in Two Hours a Day
99/02/03 Dell! Move Over Henry Ford, Move Over Alfred Sloan
99/02/02 Aesop Driving Down Interstate 75
99/01/31 Can I Beat the Wash-Sale Rule?
99/01/29 Hats Off to Ameritrade (and My Coat, Please)
99/01/28 Get into Buffett’s Head
99/01/27 Phones, Books, Cars . . .
99/01/26 I’m Treasurer Again!
99/01/25 What If Everyone Bought Index Funds?
99/01/22 FREE Long Distance
99/01/21 Wise Words and a Cheap Joke
99/01/20 American Depository Receipts
99/01/19 A Day in the Life of Bureaucratica
99/01/15 When Prizes and Awards Are Not Taxable
99/01/14 An Even Better Source for Free Books
99/01/13 Which Will It Be - Curtain #1 or Curtain #2?
99/01/12 Cheap Long Distance
99/01/11 Do Small Stocks Really Beat Big Ones?
99/01/08 Free Books
99/01/07 What Amazon Means
99/01/06 Amazon Short Update
99/01/05 Dogs of the Dow With Bonds
99/01/04 The Pitbull System 25 Months Later
98/12/31 How Times Have Changed
98/12/30 A Free Speed-Reading Machine!
98/12/29 YadayadayadaDAAA, YadayadayadaDUHHHH - Part II
98/12/28 Diamond Drama
98/12/24 Luck
98/12/23 Gummi Madness
98/12/22 One Last Thing Before Gummi Madness
98/12/21 Wishful Thinking Dept.?
98/12/18 Two True Stories
98/12/17 The Vote
98/12/16 Not All Weathermen Are Airheads
98/12/15 Now that We’ve Agreed It’s Wrong to Lie
98/12/14 Impeachment Theater — Do We Really Want Tickets?
98/12/11 What the Insurance Defense Lawyers Propose
98/12/10 Auto Insurance Reform Ideas
98/12/09 Parade Follow-Up
98/12/08 These Three Guys Are in a Crash ...
98/12/07 A Stocking Stuffer
98/12/04 Good Suggestions for Linda C.
98/12/03 More Amazonia
98/12/02 Dorothy Scores With Amazon
98/12/01 Switch Out of Funds?
98/11/30 The Minimum Wage
98/11/27 Duplex in Vermont
98/11/25 More on Linda and the Minimum Wage
98/11/24 Batteries & Schmidelity
98/11/23 Amazon’s Little Uptick
98/11/20 Power Up!
98/11/19 Oops! How I Blew $973.90
98/11/18 Are You a Real Researcher?
98/11/17 What, Exactly, Is Linda to Do?
98/11/16 Credit Card Tide - II
98/11/13 How to Stem the Credit Card Tide
98/11/12 This Barber’s Worth a Visit
98/11/11 Year-End Giving
98/11/10 Market-Timing by the Stars
98/11/09 The Cheese of the Month Club
98/11/06 At Last: The Cheese of the Month Club
98/11/05 Free Gum
98/11/04 The Stuff That Dreams (and Neuroses) Are Made Of
98/11/03 Vehicular Credit Cards
98/11/02 Climbing Out of Debt
98/10/30 They Were Living Large
98/10/29 Next Tuesday
98/10/28 Green Gummi Bears
98/10/27 It’s a Small World After All
98/10/26 Stemming the Junk Mail and Calls
98/10/23 My Dell Scale
98/10/22 Mars, Manhattan, 3Com Puts
98/10/21 Slow but Steady - Part III
98/10/20 Gen-u-ine Non-GM Parts
98/10/19 How to Duck if the Sky Is Falling
98/10/16 Buying in Bulk, Growing Your Own, Beating the Wiz
98/10/15 Leaving No Legal Stone Unturned
98/10/14 Potpourri
98/10/13 Erich’s Excellent Idea
98/10/12 Slow But Steady - Part II
98/10/09 And Now That the Jewish Holidays Are Long Over ...
98/10/08 Still More Y2K - Is It Real?
98/10/07 More Y2K - Is It Real?
98/10/06 Y2K — How Real Is the Threat?
98/10/05 Getting Yet 15% More Off Amazon’s Prices
98/10/02 YadayadayadaDAAA, YadayadayadaDUHHHH
98/10/01 Slow But Steady Does Indeed Win the Race
98/09/30 Congress’s Extraordinary Hypocrisy - II
98/09/29 Profound Advice on 3Com Puts
98/09/28 Your Own E-Clipping Service
98/09/25 Let’s Buy Mars
98/09/24 Calton Homes, Again
98/09/23 Save for the House or Prepay the Education Loans?
98/09/22 Congress’s Extraordinary Hypocrisy
98/09/21 POSH
98/09/18 Fun
98/09/17 How Long IS the Long-Term?
98/09/16 Early Adopters Wanted for Free Financial Plan
98/09/15 READER MAIL - Generators, Coffee, Pennies ...
98/09/14 Roth IRA Conversions
98/09/11 Face the Nation
98/09/10 What the 401(k) Crowd Is Doing
98/09/09 The Case FOR Amazon
98/09/08 Amazon is SO Smart
98/09/04 Report From Russia
98/09/03 How Real Is Y2K?
98/09/02 Tobias Detects a Trend
98/09/01 Earning 177% on Bulk Purchases
98/08/31 Pedal Your Own Kilowatts
98/08/28 Bill Buys an Electric Generator
98/08/27 More Y2K Feedback
98/08/26 Y2K Feedback
98/08/25 When to Sell?
98/08/24 AMZN versus FDX
98/08/21 The Plot Thickens
98/08/20 Make a Little List
98/08/19 It’s Time to Prepare for 2000
98/08/18 Getting Ready for 2000
98/08/17 Just Starting Out
98/08/14 Planning for the Folks’ Retirement
98/08/13 Where Do You Find a Company like DEP?
98/08/12 The DEP Dialogue
98/08/11 My Ship Comes In
98/08/10 The Perfect Hedge
98/08/07 Missing the Forest for the Fees
98/08/06 Land of the Rising Unemployment
98/08/05 Potentially Interesting Web Sites
98/08/04 Reader Mail: Books, Numbers, 2000
98/08/03 The Physics of Coffee
98/07/30 Summer Fun II
98/07/29 Summer Fun
98/07/28 Sell Puts to Buy, Write Calls to Sell?
98/07/27 A Brief History of Interest Rates
98/07/24 Anybody Seen That Dog?
98/07/23 The Need for a Driver’s License — and Editing
98/07/22 Silicon Cowboys and Indians: Three More Views
98/07/21 How Much Liability Coverage Should You Carry?
98/07/20 WEBS and ADRs
98/07/17 Reader Mail — Andyday
98/07/16 MITTS Friends Like These ...
98/07/15 Spiders vs. Diamonds
98/07/14 Report from Russia
98/07/13 Distrustful at 2,000, Tempted at 9,000
98/07/10 The 700 Club
98/07/09 Navigating A Small Boatload of Cash
98/07/08 Miscellaneous Deductions and Good Strong Coffee
98/07/07 Geniuses Lose Money, Too
98/07/06 Losing Money in a Bull Market
98/07/03 Amway
98/07/02 Father Knows Best
98/07/01 Amazon.ugh
98/06/30 Stop the World
98/06/29 Michael’s Team
98/06/26 Who Votes the Short Shares?
98/06/25 If Mr. Farley Cannot Show a Surplus on That
98/06/24 The Chance of a Lifetime
98/06/23 What’s Wrong With This Picture?
98/06/22 Hold the Phone: 700-555-4141
98/06/19 A New Guy at the SBA
98/06/18 Let Us Now Praise the Modern Bookstore
98/06/17 Want Your 15 Minutes?
98/06/16 Good News: The Market’s Down
98/06/15 Query From a Budding Stock Manipulator
98/06/12 Six Thoughts
98/06/11 Some Ideas in re: Japan
98/06/10 Silicon Cowboys and Indians
98/06/09 Fat Freedom
98/06/08 The Trouble With Socialism
98/06/05 The Trouble with Libertarians
98/06/04 Reader Mail
98/06/03 Uvarov’s Lament
98/06/02 Assigned Seats at the Movies
98/06/01 Assigned Seats at the Movies: A Terrible Idea
98/05/29 E-mail from Moscow
98/05/28 Might Your Margin Requirement Be Raised?
98/05/27 Tobacco Stocks: The Perfect Hedge
98/05/26 The Penny Dish
98/05/22 Opening a Closed-End Fund
98/05/21 Closed-end Country Funds
98/05/20 Blood in the Streets
98/05/19 More Sage Advice on the Mystery of Buying and Selling
98/05/18 Earnings Up, Stock Down?
98/05/15 A ConglomerATe?
98/05/14 Yet More Reader Mail – Deductibles, Telemarketing
98/05/13 More Reader Mail – APRs, Dumb Luck
98/05/12 Reader Mail – Books and CDs
98/05/11 Making a Statement
98/05/08 Where Else Can Boomer Dollars GO?
98/05/07 Is MSFT a Pyramid?
98/05/06 Mr. B — Update
98/05/05 The Board Wants to Authorize More Shares
98/05/04 APR in May
98/05/01 Uvarov’s Adventure
98/04/30 Are the High P/Es OK?
98/04/29 CDs, Books, and Anagrams
98/04/28 The Pendulum Shifts
98/04/27 To Claim or Not to Claim
98/04/24 Bogus Bogie
98/04/23 Of Telemarketers and Wallets
98/04/22 More Car Talk
98/04/21 Big-Time Research
98/04/20 Anagrams
98/04/17 Amazon.stratosphere
98/04/16 What Works on Wall Street
98/04/15 Watch Out — Here Comes Don
98/04/14 Hold the Pickles and the Lettuce but the Spreads They Still Upset Us
98/04/13 Is That a Buick Flying By?
98/04/09 A Brief History of the Universe
98/04/08 Deducting Investment Interest, Reporting Option Premiums
98/04/07 Hold the Phone!
98/04/06 Read This, Come Out a Million Ahead
98/04/03 Savings Bonds
98/04/02 What To Do When The Telemarketer Calls
98/04/01 Oh, the Humanity!
98/03/31 Getting Rich Quick
98/03/30 Solid Sparks to Retire at 45
98/03/27 Ranting About Compaq, Et Al
98/03/26 What About Buffett?
98/03/25 Truth-in-Car-Loan-Promotions
98/03/24 Joe Beats the Bank – Part III
98/03/23 Joe Beats the Bank – Part II
98/03/20 Beware the Short Squeeze
98/03/19 Short-Sale Mechanics
98/03/18 Locking in a Gain
98/03/17 How to Buy a Car
98/03/16 Why It’s Dumb to Buy Annuities
98/03/13 Tax Babble, Baseball and Scrabble
98/03/12 Whatever Happened to Dividends?
98/03/11 Oh, Those Ladies!
98/03/10 Trading Stock Options
98/03/09 Joe Beats the Bank
98/03/06 Want to Live Forever?
98/03/05 Four Things You Didn’t Expect to Learn Today
98/03/04 A Clear Connection
98/03/03 The Day They Couldn’t Fill the Fortune 500
98/03/02 Croatian Deflation and Your Social Security
98/02/27 And Now For The Year 5758 Problem
98/02/26 What Rhymes With Millennium
98/02/25 Your Replicator Tweaks
98/02/24 Finding the Buyers - II
98/02/23 Vote!
98/02/20 Photocopy Your Wallet
98/02/19 Of Clickles and Replicators
98/02/18 Who Finds the Buyers?
98/02/17 Zaide on the Internet
98/02/13 A Cheery War Story from S. McGrath
98/02/12 What Will Your Social Security Number Be in the Year 2000?
98/02/11 Of Roth and Froth
98/02/10 Where Are We Now?
98/02/09 Silver and Diamonds in Croatia
98/02/06 Population: Two Clear Alternatives
98/02/05 The Tax Lien Game in Colorado
98/02/04 Good News From the Front
98/02/03 The Replicator - An Entirely New Way to Shop
98/02/02 The Year 2000 Problem Begins -- Oh, No! -- Last Month
98/01/30 Meet the Dealers
98/01/29 Not for Nothing Was He Amused
98/01/28 It Is Rocket Science
98/01/27 Capital Gains Tax Cut
98/01/26 ROTH: As Easy As One, Two Three. Four, Five, Six, Seven
98/01/23 Don’t Sweat -- or Insure -- the Small Stuff
98/01/22 GAAQ: Generally Asked Accounting Questions
98/01/21 Living Usefully: THE SMILE TRAIN
98/01/20 Living Usefully - III
98/01/16 Living Usefully - II
98/01/15 Living Usefully
98/01/14 Going Postal - IV
98/01/13 Going Postal - III
98/01/12 Dr. Tom’s Class Action Settlement
98/01/09 Education IRA
98/01/08 Reader Mail - Parrots, Tuxedos, and More
98/01/07 The Budget News: Worse -- and Better -- Than Most Realize
98/01/06 The Ultimate Hat Trick
98/01/05 A Prayer
98/01/02 Another Year, Another $990,000
97/12/31 It Really Works
97/12/30 My New Tux
97/12/29 Backdoor Taxation of Your Tax-Free Roth?
97/12/24 Ho, Ho, Ho
97/12/23 The Jewish Parrot Joke
97/12/22 The Root of All Evil
97/12/19 Open Phones
97/12/18 Polonius Speaks
97/12/17 Wanna Lend This Guy $200,000?
97/12/16 Tax-Lien Infomercials
97/12/15 More Dangers of Golf
97/12/12 A Random Review
97/12/11 Beyond Wall Street
97/12/10 Goodnight Louise
97/12/09 Felony Dumping III: Your Feedback
97/12/08 Getting By (in Retirement) on $100,000 a Year
97/12/05 Music
97/12/04 Still More on the Roth IRA
97/12/03 Still More on the Roth IRA
97/12/02 Cigar Arson and Other Myths
97/12/01 One Family’s Finances (and How You, Too, Might Save $2,000 a Year)
97/11/26 Thanksgiving - Again
97/11/25 And I Thought I Had Problems
97/11/24 More on Your IRA
97/11/21 Curiouser and Curiouser
97/11/20 New Investor
97/11/19 Who Does Qualify for a Roth IRA -- and Should You Switch?
97/11/18 The Roth IRA: Is It for You?
97/11/17 The Key to Horse Life Insurance
97/11/14 Felony Dumping - II
97/11/13 Golfing with Warren Buffett
97/11/12 Golf -- A Most Dangerous Sport!
97/11/11 Is This a Book Review or a Weather Report?
97/11/10 Felony Dumping
97/11/07 Have You Any Business Being in the Market? - Part II
97/11/06 Have You Any Business Being in the Market? - Part I
97/11/05 Joe’s Solution to SPAM
97/11/04 Going Postal: Part II
97/11/03 The 16-Year Cycle
97/10/31 Happy Halloween (Not!)
97/10/30 Fast-Track
97/10/29 My Fault?
97/10/28 A Common Myth
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