“What we have here is stakeholder capitalism, not shareholder capitalism”
A visual history of the credit card.
My hometown is bleeding.
Finally got around to reading Mike Davidson’s excellent article about the end of the P.I. I appreciate that he tries to keep it positive and offer ideas and solutions instead of focusing on the past and the demise. It’s sad to see the P.I. go, but it’s important to focus on what’s next.
Been linked to from just about everywhere, but it’s still great. A nearly perfect job of visualization and narrative to help explain a complex issue clearly.
In my opinion it does, and I think Kottke’s points about the care and use of the visual design at the end of his post are spot on. He seems to sit on the fence with how much the visual design impacts the broken windows theory. I agree somewhat, a well moderated and active site owner probably does play a greater roll than the visual design in how much trolling and spam comments you get, but the visual design is still a vital component.
Yet another great infographic from the NY Times illustrating who voted against the $700 billion financial bailout plan.
Seriously considering moving my money to different bank or even a credit union.
“In 2004 half of executives earned more than 104 times the average worker’s pay.”
I stunning inforgraphic depicting the subprime mortgage crisis across the U.S.
There was a side bit in a West Wing episode about this. The eventual resolution was they couldn’t get rid of the penny because it was still allowed in Illinois toll booths because of Lincoln and Illinois was too important of a primary state.
I’ve spent years entering items into Quicken, but about a year ago I just stopped. It was becoming too much work for the benefit but this new application solves both problems. It’s the balancing your checkbook if the future.
“How Much Does It Buy? is a currency converter for those of us who aren’t day traders.” Entertaining.
