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The last hippo you’d want to trust

Back in college, I once discovered the BlueHippo company. They’re a firm that sells laptops to poor people with the enticing prospect of no-credit-check financing. But under the hood, they’re an incredibly sleazy, predatory company that makes their money based on their target market’s financial ignorance. Take, for example, the following ad from back in [...]

You can’t have your cake and eat it, too

I found a graphic from the New York times that perfectly displays not only the root of the current economic problem, but also inadvertently shows why Geithner’s new plan to fund private investment of securitized bank assets won’t work to fix it. Here’s the graphic: (click to see a larger version) There’s a particular quote [...]

That Silly Textbook Dollar

At orientation this year, the campus bookstore handed out these glossy, full-color brochures full of “information” extolling the value of, you guessed it, the campus bookstore. A particular graph on one of the pages caught my eye, however: This graphic was part of a page that was futilely attempting to explain why textbooks are so [...]