With St. Patrick’s Day tomorrow and Big Money Mondays today, we’re plotting the most extravagant cheap beer-guzzling we can possibly indulge. Beginning at 12:01 tonight, we’ll be bringing a series of the largest receptacles in our cupboard to our lips and draining them of liter upon liter of delicious hops. We realize steins are German, [...]

As you’re undoubtedly well-aware, the current financial melt-down has the U.S. government propping up several of the world’s largest banks in hopes of maintaining some semblance of confidence in our economic system. Much of this disaster is bound to shaky real estate investments, but in the shuffle of discussions about foreclosures on private homes, we’re [...]

We had a fantasy when we were 4 of having so many pets that we wouldn’t need a bed, we could just sleep on the collective mass of our sleeping pets. Of course, our parents weren’t so into the idea, and when we finally managed to execute our pet bed plan late last year, well, [...]

Since we gave you, dear readers, some invaluable movie-rental advice for the beginning of the long weekend, we figure it’s our duty to use our weekly financialisticle Big Money Mondays to come through with more recommendations for the tail end of said three-day period. We realize it’s Presidents’ Day, and that this should really be [...]

So, 600,000 jobs lost last month, huh? Well then there’s no better time for our weekly financialisticle Big Money Mondays, wherein we chronicle moments of incongruous extravagance in a world otherwise headed for the bread line. Following our long tradition of charting trends in the luxury goods markets, this week’s listicle, courtesy of mental_floss, features [...]

Part of why we missed yesterday’s Super Bowl was because our TV is rather pathetic and wasn’t really up to the scale of the action going down in Tampa (we also doubt it would have known what to do with all the 3-D craziness). We’ve now resolved to acquire a better TV, and are dedicating [...]

While skimming the New York Times this weekend, we came across this piece on the impending nationalization of the majority of American financial institutions. We didn’t see any problem with this, devout socialists that we are, until we realized that this would mean the demise of an oft-overlooked section of the advertising art sector. Sure, [...]

The Detroit Auto Show opened yesterday, offering a hint of what America’s auto industry might resemble in its very uncertain future. As The New York Times notes, Detroit’s Big 3 are finally facing the music and pushing a predominantly hybrid fleet this year. To our surprise, the Times piece questions whether consumers will be easily [...]

With companies cutting back on full-time employees and office space, freelancer numbers sky-rocketing and home offices becoming extra bedrooms to be sublet, work will only become more mobile in 2009. That’s why we’ve devoted the year’s first edition of our weekly finance listicle, Big Money Mondays, to finding the best and most personalized item every [...]

As we enter a frugal era of more sober spending in 2009, we can look back on 2008 as the year that decadence died. So in the year’s final installment of our weekly financial listicle, Big Money Mondays, we look at a list from the wise financiers at the New York Daily News of the [...]