Yesterday we referenced a Floyd Norris column in the New York Times called “Why So Glum? Numbers Point to a Recovery,” which discussed the persistence of gloom in the air despite an improving economic outlook. The American economy appears to be in a cyclical recovery that is gaining strength. Firms have begun to hire and [...]

“For people still trying to get someone to do their return by April 15th, think. In my case, you are dealing with someone who has been working 80+ hour weeks for 3 months. I’ve only had a dozen meals in that time that didn’t come out of a drive thru bag.” From the blog Our [...]

“April 15, baby.” Probably not the favorite video the tea party set…

20 Best Blogs for Tax Advice, according to CareerOverview.com.

From the blog Birds & Bills: Thrashing my way through the financial morass: How to celebrate the anniversary of screwing up your taxes: Do it again “We have a letter from the IRS saying we owe them money!” is not what you want to hear when you pick up the phone to answer a call [...]

“Unless you’re in the habit of buying new highs, the ascent of this market has been way less enjoyable over the last 6 weeks than the headlines would lead outsiders to believe.” We are heading into the home stretch here at EconomyBeat — the project concludes at the end of April. Thus, this will be [...]

A new paper that will be published in the Journal of Investment Management posits the theory that economists suffer from “physics envy,” aspiring to create economic models “as predictive as those in physics. While this perspective has led to a number of important breakthroughs in economics,” says the abstract, “‘physics envy’ has also created a [...]

Click on this chart from Visual Economics to see when various health care provisions go into effect over the next nine years. From the site, the info in non-visual form: 2010 In 2010, there will be three major changes to health care: 1. Insurance companies will no longer be allowed to deny coverage to children [...]

The one rule of performing improv comedy is “yes ,and…” When someone presents a comedic scenario, you don’t contradict the premise and start acting something else out, you build upon what last performer hands off to you, you effectively say “yes, and…” You continue the scene and forward the action and refine the characters. But [...]

Completed in February, Ice House Detroit is an abandoned house in Detroit sprayed with water and frozen by two artists seeking to dramatize the foreclosure crisis. The project was funded through Kickstarter, an arts-funding web site that we wrote about last September. Here is the Flickr pool of photos of the house, and below is [...]