I’ve recently written some posts about evaluating income based on the number of household members and about assessing the cost-of-living to income ratio. It is more accurate to think about your income per person relative to your neighbors than to simply compare overall household income numbers. We also talked about the 50/30/20 rule that says that your cost-of-living… Read More »
It seems to me that the states who seceded from the Union in the first wave from 1860 and 1861 did so in the belief that the problems they faced in the Union could be better solved from outside of it. However, I do not think that was a very wise idea and I think that they should… Read More »
Now that I’m commuting daily again, I have plenty of time to ponder the amount of time wasted sitting in traffic congestion. Now you can ponder it with me. D.C. area commuters lose about 62 hours a year due to traffic congestion. Dividing this by 365 days (I can’t find a source on weekend hours lost), we have… Read More »