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A mix of economics, policy, and my personal experience. I'm especially into financial transparency, writing up our personal finances and those of projects I've been involved in.

• Our 2022 Giving
  December 02, 2022
• If Professional Investors Missed This...
  November 16, 2022
• Hiring Programmers in Academia
  July 24, 2022
• Spending Update 2022
  July 19, 2022
• Passing Up Pay
  July 11, 2022
• US Taxes: Adjust Withholding When Donating?
  April 12, 2022
• Perpetual Dickensian Poverty?
  December 21, 2021
• Thinking About College Funding
  September 09, 2021
• Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners
  January 03, 2021
• Adapting to Means Testing
  December 17, 2020
• The US Already Has A Wealth Tax
  August 19, 2020
• Spending Update 2020
  August 17, 2020
• Price Gouging and Speculative Costs
  March 25, 2020
• Repossessing Degrees
  January 13, 2020
• Credit Cards for Giving
  January 04, 2020
• Programmers Should Plan For Lower Pay
  December 28, 2019
• Attach Receipts to Credit Card Transactions
  November 12, 2019
• How to Get a Duplicate Receipt
  November 08, 2019
• MA Price Accuracy Law
  October 13, 2019
• Long-term Donation Bunching?
  September 27, 2019
• The MA Estate Tax is Broken
  September 24, 2019
• Rough Utility Costs
  July 20, 2019
• Fixing Student Loans
  June 28, 2019
• Beantown Stomp: Sliding Scale
  June 03, 2019
• Index Funds: US vs International
  May 23, 2018
• Spending Update 2018
  May 14, 2018
• Short Term Handling of Donation Money
  May 03, 2018
• Market Basket vs Peapod
  January 18, 2018
• 2017 Donations
  December 23, 2017
• Startup Equity
  November 23, 2017
• Forking Currency
  August 05, 2017
• Hybrid Bank Account
  July 30, 2017
• Pound Confusion
  May 13, 2017
• Adding dormers to our house
  March 26, 2017
• Early Exercise and 83b
  February 16, 2017
• Costs of Foods
  January 28, 2017
• How Much do Dance Weekends Pay?
  December 16, 2016
• BIDA Compensation at Various Funding Levels
  December 14, 2016
• Spending Update
  August 15, 2016
• Price Gouging and Increased Costs
  July 16, 2016
• How Does Streaming Pay?
  July 07, 2016
• Handling CD Money
  June 19, 2016
• Effective Marginal Tax Rates
  June 16, 2016
• Costco vs Market Basket
  April 03, 2016
• Stock Options
  February 05, 2016
• Decoupling property values and rents
  July 26, 2015
• Salary Publicy
  January 31, 2015
• The Privilege of Earning To Give
  January 14, 2015
• Index Fund Endgame
  November 05, 2014
• Pricing Benefiting Everyone
  October 28, 2014
• Lawyering to Give
  September 25, 2014
• Rent Control
  August 30, 2014
• The Economics of Touring
  July 27, 2014
• How Much Cheaper is Group Housing?
  July 16, 2014
• Giving Half
  July 15, 2014
• The Economics of a Studio CD
  July 14, 2014
• Land Value Taxes are Distortionary
  May 14, 2014
• Affordable Housing
  May 06, 2014
• North Carolina Teacher Pay
  April 28, 2014
• Tax-inclusive Pricing
  April 07, 2014
• Rough Marginal Costs
  April 06, 2014
• A Share Is Meaningless
  March 10, 2014
• Contra Pay Variability
  February 26, 2014
• Spending Over Time
  February 05, 2014
• Annotated Spending 2004-2007
  January 13, 2014
• Why I'm Not Worried About Piracy
  January 08, 2014
• Don't Keep Your Old Electronics
  December 13, 2013
• Capital Gains and Inflation
  November 22, 2013
• Deflationary Spirals
  November 15, 2013
• Don't Ignore Inflation
  November 14, 2013
• Bitcoin exchange rate as a prediction
  November 11, 2013
• Doulas Would Save Insurers Money
  November 04, 2013
• Value and Money
  October 29, 2013
• Spending Money and Housing Aesthetics
  September 28, 2013
• Avoiding hyperbolic discounting
  August 08, 2013
• Consumption Smoothing and Hedonic Adaptation
  July 19, 2013
• Is Pandora Really Exploiting Artists?
  June 25, 2013
• Variable Pricing
  June 20, 2013
• How is a 401k tax advantaged?
  June 11, 2013
• Survey of Historical Stock Advice
  June 06, 2013
• Keeping Choices Donation Neutral
  May 11, 2013
• What Rate of Return Should You Expect?
  April 06, 2013
• Bitcoin: Public and Anonymous?
  January 28, 2013
• Paying With Donations
  January 23, 2013
• Debt Relief Is Bad Means Testing
  January 22, 2013
• Asymmetrical Visiting Costs
  January 16, 2013
• Adjustible Rate Everything
  January 14, 2013
• Why Does Inflation Matter?
  January 11, 2013
• Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin
  December 09, 2012
• Salary Advisor
  November 30, 2012
• How much does it cost to tour?
  August 06, 2012
• The high impact of the real interest rate
  July 18, 2012
• The Value of Coins and Bills
  June 24, 2012
• Food Costs on a Scale
  December 04, 2011
• Keeping Yourself Giving
  November 25, 2011
• Choose Your Own Admission
  November 21, 2011
• How Much Does a Degree (F) Cost?
  October 29, 2011
• The Value of an Hour
  October 26, 2011
• Occupy [Place] and Inequality
  October 13, 2011
• Negative Income Tax
  August 08, 2011
• Variable Measurement Units and Flexibility
  August 03, 2011
• How Much Does It Cost to Live?
  April 03, 2011
• Insurance Doesn't Make Sense If You Have Savings
  February 12, 2011
• Diversity In Giving
  January 19, 2011
• Leaving BBN, Joining Adverplex, Risk-neutral Giving
  December 07, 2010
• Housing Debt
  September 16, 2010
• What Discount Rate do we Apply to Giving?
  August 24, 2010
• Should We Buy a House?
  August 22, 2010
• Does only 10% of the fairtrade premium go to producers?
  July 23, 2010
• Things not to do, even in pursuit of greater good
  July 22, 2010
• How we spend money
  July 19, 2010
• Why it makes sense to pick one charity
  July 14, 2010
• The make-food-organic Charity
  July 13, 2010
• Why I don't Buy Organic
  July 12, 2010
• Living Frugally So We Can Give Away More
  July 06, 2010
• Give-Well and Deciding who to Give To
  July 05, 2010
• People writing about us
  June 08, 2010
• Quality of Life Measurement
  June 02, 2010
• Giving and Notariety
  April 04, 2010
• Food Stamps
  March 01, 2010
• Saving and Borrowing
  December 12, 2009
• Income Inequality and Scale Independence
  December 10, 2009
• Money and percentages
  July 20, 2009
• Giving
  January 3, 2009