Don’t Quit Your Day Job – Personal Finance, Economics and Investing

Payscale is a great site you can use to compare your salary offers (or current salary) with other people in your field. It aggregates data anonymously, so you can know the going market rate for your job offer (or current position!). Anyway, Payscale has a large amount of data from various sources. One of the variables they track is the college that Payscale participants attended.

Even though St. Patrick’s day is known as a drinking holiday, it doesn’t do too much to spur beer sales for home consumption. Nielsen, a market research company, tracks the purchase of beer for the two weeks leading up to holidays… and St. Patrick’s is the lowest. Of course, St. Patrick’s day also sees a higher number of people going out to restaurants and bars (only 16.7% went to a private St. Patrick’s party in 2009).

Alot of noise has been made about how the United States won a majority (20) of their Olympic medals in events that didn’t exist the last time the Winter Games were held in Canada (1988, Calgary).  Hopefully this point has been thoroughly dismissed by sites such as FiveThirtyEight.  However, another valid point can be raised [...]

Carnivals and links for the week!

A collection of links for the week.

Few things in economics and personal finance are better than looking back on the psyche of the consumer through the lens of special holidays. Luckily, Valentine’s Day just passed, and someone else has run the numbers for me! (What, you thought I was going to go over used car sales on President’s Day?). The site BillShrink made an interesting infographic which details the spending thatgoes into the just-passed Valentine’s Day. Without further ado, please enjoy this graphic.

Carnivals and links, presented for your viewing pleasure!

Weekly links and carnivals!

Carnivals and links for the week of January 18.

Posts I liked, for around the internet and from right here at DQYDJ!