The New Math of Student Loans – WSJ
Over the next few weeks, hundreds of thousands of students and their parents will apply for student loans for the coming academic year. Many students will sign up for federal loans, where they will find the best deals. But for a certain group of applicants—undergraduate students with creditworthy parents and graduate students with high credit […]
So Why Do We Prefer Doritos To Celery? Taste the Science in Every Bite – WSJ
So why do we prefer Doritos to celery? The answer, according to the author, is twofold: Our real food has become tasteless, and we’ve mastered making fake food delicious. “The Dorito Effect, very simply, is what happens when food gets blander and flavor technology gets better,” he writes. Source: Taste the Science in Every Bite […]
How to Vet a Charity – Wall St. Journal
The good news for careful givers is that in return for their tax-free status, nonprofit groups other than churches typically must make extensive public disclosures about their finances and governance. Some state authorities require useful disclosures as well. The result is a wealth of information and analysis available to prospective donors, much of it free […]
Work Email: Balancing Privacy and the Right to Speak – Free Enterprise
By Christopher Coble, Esq. on March 27, 2015 6:01 From the Sony hack to Hilary Clinton, work email has been all over the news lately. This may leave many employers wondering how closely they can or should monitor their employees’ emails. In some cases, federal law limits how much an employer can monitor electronic correspondence […]
If I Marry You, Do I Marry Your Student Loans Too?
Is it true if I marry my boyfriend that his student loan debt becomes mine too? –Rennette Fortune @RFortuneMedia viaTwitter. Short answer: No. His student loan debt is his alone and his payment history for those loans stays on his credit history, not yours. When you are ready to buy a house together, though, his […]
A New Way to Use a Prenuptial Agreement (Wall St. Journal)
Prenuptial agreements have long been used to protect the assets of a far wealthier partner in a marriage. Now they are also being used by couples who enter marriage as financial peers to help establish financial parameters, according to experts and advisers. In many cases, both parties already have successful careers and significant assets, as […]
C.S. Lewis On Generosity And Charitable Giving
“I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc, is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we […]
Uber and Lyft can’t convince courts that drivers are contractors, not employees
Uber and Lyft can’t convince courts that drivers are contractors, not employees http://venturebeat.com/2015/03/11/uber-and-lyft-cant-convince-courts-that-drivers-are-contractors-not-employees/
The Economist | Smartphones: Planet of the phones
Planet of the phones http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21645180-smartphone-ubiquitous-addictive-and-transformative-planet-phones?frsc=dg%7Cd via @theeconomist
Giving Till It Hurts (Wall St Journal)
They are forgoing vacation homes, early retirement and college saving plans. Sally Beatty on the increasing number of ‘stretch’ givers who donate out of proportion to their wealth. By SALLY BEATTY July 6, 2007; Page W1 For 37 years, Nobuko Kajitani worked as a textile conservator at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. She lived modestly, shunning […]