As of today, MoviePass offers all-you-can-watch movie-going for less than $40 a month. The service is positioning itself as the “Netflix for theaters.” It’s not supported by theaters at all, but as I understand it, you sign up for the service and MoviePass provides access to one free movie ticket per day. To use the [...]
More than half the global population now lives in urban areas and while we tend to assume that vibrant cities like NYC, London, and Berlin make the world go round, Foreign Policy magazine looks at 75 urban areas that will be economic powerhouses in 2025. The bad news is it’s an annoying slideshow. The good [...]
Contrary to what you may have assumed about Portland, Ore. from watching Portlandia, it’s economy is actually doing quite well. What’s even more impressive is that while high unemployment is driving the national labor-force participation rate down, the Portland area’s participation rate is now growing. In the aggregate, Texas is where people have been moving [...]
If it were up to NPR’s Planet Money and economists, the US government would institute these six policies immediately: eliminate the mortgage tax deduction, end the tax deduction companies get for providing health-care to employees, end the corporate income tax, eliminate all income and payroll taxes in favor of a progressive consumption tax, legalize and [...]
Here’s a few interesting links I’ve been wondering what to do with that can now all collectively be posted under the thematic umbrella of “money”. 1. The Wallaby Card is connected to each of its users’ credit card accounts and is able to select the best one to take advantage of rewards and savings. It [...]
Good question by NPR’s Planet Money co-founder Adam Davidson. More specifically, Davidson wants to know why the Dow is still used as the primary barometer for America’s economic health. The Dow average, drawn out to two decimal places, may seem like some perfectly scientific number, but it’s far from it. A small committee selects 30 [...]
Spoiler: It would cost a lot, A LOT, of cash to build the Death Star, in terms of 2012 dollars, at least according to Centives. Students at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania worked out how much it would cost to build the Death Star and came up with a figure of $8,100,000,000,000,000 ($8.1 quadrillion!?), which is [...]
The Economist weighs in on a new study that suggest the relatively poor often oppose raising taxes on the wealthy because they don’t want to help those below them on the economic totem pole: Instead of opposing redistribution because people expect to make it to the top of the economic ladder, the authors of the [...]
John Robb’s essay on America’s current state of affairs might be the best thing you’ll read all day. His analysis is interesting and connects the dots in ways that I haven’t come across anywhere else. The result of central planning in the US has finally hit the wall. The list of problems is endless. The [...]
