In the summer of 1789, George Washington got into a dispute with his Postmaster General — a fellow named Ebenezer Hazard — and removed him from office. Looking for a new profession, Hazard decided to start an insurance company. He called his new firm the Insurance Company of North America and [...]
When you don’t know
In her bestselling book, Thinking in Bets, retired poker champion Annie Duke stresses an important point: As kids in school, it was regarded as a failure if we ever answered a question “I don't know.” But, in the world outside the classroom, the only honest answer to many questions is, in fact, “I [...]
Wayne Sabaj
In the summer of 2011 a rural Illinois man named Wayne Sabaj was in his backyard picking broccoli. As he bent down, something caught his eye. Half buried in the dirt, he found a sealed nylon bag. Inside was $150,000 in cash. For Sabaj, who was unemployed and had, in his words, “spent my last ten [...]
Careful
My friend Rostislav, who would know, tells me that in Russian there is no equivalent for the word “privacy.” That's because, in Russian culture, privacy, as we understand it, is a foreign concept. In schools, for example, children's grades are posted publicly, and it is not impolite to ask someone's [...]
Why you should care about the dullest headline of the week
This week the government issued its monthly inflation data report, and the headline could have put you to sleep: “Consumer Price Index Rises 0.2% in April.” It would have been easy to skip over this seemingly insignificant story for two reasons: First, the way the government reports inflation data, [...]
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