College Spotlight: The University of Richmond

Hey Everyone, I hope the summer is going well for you and all of you rising seniors and juniors are making plans to visit colleges this summ...

AAfCW 2015 Volunteer Update #13

This is the thirteenth weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2015 season. Today's update includes...

A Greek default does not rise to the level of a systemic risk

Greece is out of money, and its current government and economic policies are not supportive of a lasting solution. All the money it's bo...

Going the extra yard

Yesterday I got a chance to go metal detecting at a popular tourist beach in Palm Beach county Florida.  This place is hit hard by many beac...

Healthy consumers

As a postscript to my post earlier this weekend ( Healthy households ), I offer updated versions of the following charts that illustrate the...

Relative price "inequality" continues

In light of the persistent media focus on income and wealth inequality, which has surged since the publication of Thomas Piketty's Capit...

Piers and jewelry hunting

I have found a lot of jewelry and coins around piers, or more importantly just a few yards past piers.  A few yards past the fishing pier in...

Pleasure Beach Trail Clean-up

Please join us for a Pleasure Beach trail clean-up day on Sunday, July 5, from 9am-2pm at Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport! You will be helping ...

The Fed's game plan: it's all about the demand for money

It's no secret that the Fed will begin raising short-term interest rates before too long. However, the method they will use has never be...

AAfCW 2015 Volunteer Update #12

This is the twelfth weekly update by the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds (AAfCW) for the 2015 season. Today's update includes re...

Healthy households

In the first quarter of this year, the financial burdens of U.S. households were as low as they have been since the numbers were first talli...

Mackies AND a Parmenter For Sale

Even in the midst of all the Kidman tour chaos (and more on that soon, we have CDs, LPs and DVDs finally!) we manage to bring you some super...

Tide charts and beach reports

If you base your beach or water hunting plans, or follow any of the things mentioned in this post title you are always going to be one step ...

Pleasure Beach Monitoring

Good evening all, Late last night or early this morning the pair of Piping Plovers on Pleasure Beach in Bridgeport hatched four young ones! ...

Consumer price inflation is still running almost 2%

Two months ago, I noted that 2% inflation is alive and well , and it's still the case: The prevailing inflation meme is that it is dange...

Searching sand bars at tourist beaches

Yesterday I found several pieces of gold and silver jewelry at a local tourist beach that was pretty sanded in.  The upper beach was too bus...

Least Terns & MBTA

Here is one of those birds that would have been extirpated if not for the Migratory Bird Treaty Act – the Least Tern ( Sternula antillarum )...

College Spotlight: Trinity College

General Information The second school from my New England college tour was Trinity College  located in Hartford, CT. Trinity College is loca...

Strong building permits trump soft housing starts

May housing starts were much weaker than expected (1036K vs. 1090K), but building permits were 16% above expectations, and homebuilders'...

coastal table for summer

Playing around with some cool and beachy summer table settings. Coastal plates and blue and white napkins are from Home Goods. Round raffia ...