Apr 18 2008

I solved the Oil Price Mystery

Yesterday on the way home from work I was scanning the radio dial for anything interesting and stopped on Rush. I usually can’t stand listening to him, although I generally categorize myself as a Republican, I am freethinking and not one of his sheep. He reported a direct correlation between the poor economy and the election of a Democratic Congress in 2006. He stated that “they wanted change, and well…the got it” citing gasoline prices, high crude oil costs, foreclosures and the like. I thought that the generalized statement that our current economic woes are caused by our elected legislators was a huge non-sequitor that unfortunately the sheeple gobble up like candy.

I decided that if he could prattle on about a cause so could I, so I decided to find a correlation the cost of a barrel of oil with something random and present it as fact. What I found was amazing even to me.
excel graph

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Apr 3 2008

The Color of Money

Is our money ugly? I think so…and so do millions of others around the world. Check out this blog…it is a site dedicated to colors, they make pallets from everything…including money from around the world.
Color + Design Blog / The Color of Money from Around the World

We have started to make our bills more attractive and less counterfeit-able, if you will, at the expense of good taste. I think that we should either go all the way or stay home. Unfortunately that view is not shared my many Americans apparently…and specifically one of my cubical-mates.

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