Good Time to Be Great

The interactive chart featured here is making the rounds on the web, because it tells a story about how the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, or it at least it seems to. 

The problem with that interpretation is that it is about income, not wealth.  Each year, the people in the [...]

Yahoo Finance is Fun

When it comes to following the markets, Yahoo beats out the competition.  Yahoo Finance has 21.7 million visitors a month, #1 in the category.  What’s most intersting is the author’s attribution of Yahoo’s success to using psychology to balance information and entertainment, whereas Google is all information, no fun.

It seems unlikely, however, that Google’s [...]