Several months ago I wrote about the Secret Millionaires Club, a website that teaches kids about how to start a business and how to handle money. Warren Buffett helped create the site and his character, actually voiced by Buffett, stars in the animated videos on the site. It is a great resource for teaching kids…
The $50,000 Dollar Tennis Game Larry Kotlikoff is a professor of economics at Boston University, expert on Social Security, and weekend-warrior tennis player. Several years ago he was playing tennis with Paul Solman, the business and economics correspondent for the PBS News Hour. I don’t know who won the tennis game but it was definitely…
Charles Dickens is one of my favorite authors. In fact, The Micawber Principle, after which this blog is named, comes from one of his books. Perhaps Dickens’ most famous book is A Christmas Carol, the classic tale of the transformation and redemption of Ebenezer Scrooge. I have always enjoyed A Christmas Carol but never thought…
