Making Big Bucks and Saving the World

Jason Trigg is a 25-year-old MIT graduate who decided to work for a hedge fund. Yes, he's in it for the money, but not for himself—he figured that he could do his small part to make the world a better place if he earned a lot of money and gave half of it away to charitable causes.

Allen Iverson’s Life After the NBA

The Washington Post has a feature looking at how former NBA star Allen Iverson is doing three years after his last basketball game. It's not good.

Historical Reenacting Gig Not Fun

“Sympathetic visitors to Williamsburg have been known to bump or block white actor-interpreters who are haranguing or otherwise mistreating enslaved black characters. Occasionally, they’ve grabbed prop guns or started to shout about fighting back. Racist and demeaning comments aren’t uncommon. Willie Wright, a veteran actor-interpreter, said a child once asked him if he was a slave. When Wright said yes, the boy, who was white, demanded that Wright bring him a soda.”

This sounds like a terrible job.

Do You Know Your Type?

The Washington Post has an in-depth look at the Myers-Briggs test and whether or not it's valuable.

My Mother The Breadwinner

A record 40% of all households with children under the age of 18 include mothers who are either the sole or primary source of income for the family, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau. The share was just 11% in 1960.

Are Corporate Taxes Too Damn High? Or Too Damn Low? Nobody Knows

Public companies—those whose shares are traded on stock markets—are required to disclose all kinds of information about their operations in annual government forms like the 10-K. But one thing they aren't required to reveal is how much they actually owed the IRS that year, says Fortune magazine editor Allan Sloan.

Sunday’s Minimum Wage Discussion

Yakking about the minimum wage.

Melting Glaciers, But the Wine is Great!

According to The Washington Post, English sparkling wine is becoming an alcoholic beverage people want to drink because, as winemakers contend, climate change has created "increasingly hospitable temperatures" for vineyards in southern England, resulting in French champagne makers to buy land in the U.K.

2 Ways To Talk About Student Loan Debt! It’s a Crisis! It’s Not! (IT IS)

I. Pretttttttttttyyyyy stupid that one of the clearest overviews I’ve found of the student debt crisis was written for financial marketers: “10 Things Every Financial Marketer Should Know About the Student Loan Crisis.” Thing number one: There is a crisis: “By the time you’re finished with this article, you’ll see there are big problems (and perhaps big opportunities) in the student lending space.”

TV + Dinner + A Party

Deviled eggs and sticky toffee pudding? Yes.