I’ve been writing quite a bit about dividends and dividend investing over at Investing for Beginners at About.com. One of the things I wanted to explain, but I feel is still advanced for that particular readership base, is something known as the dividend discount model, or rather a back-of-the-envelope adaptation of it. (Please note that…
I’ve written a lot about the economics of household income over at Investing for Beginners at About.com, a division of The New York Times. [mainbodyad]Most economic data, as I explained there, comes in the form of regular households that are easily understandable to the average worker. For example, to be in the top 5% of household…
A few days ago, I was reading a psychology study that discussed the difference between the physical brains of men and women and the real-world implications of these differences. [mainbodyad]The best way to summate the data was the example of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. As he was shot, the typical response of…