Richard Hoe's Blog 

The Aug. 27 newspaper says 9.9% of U.S. mortgage holders have missed at least one payment, down slightly from April 30’s record high, when it was higher than 10%. The newspaper did not have a headline that screamed the good news, like my headline above....

It’s almost over. In Tulsa, the schools are mostly open now — our educational year seems to be based on harvesting wheat and on building up extra closing days for when there are ice or snowstorms, weather that Oklahoma is ill-equipped to handle. ...

China is now the world’s No. 2 economy. We are still No. 1 and will probably be so for a decade or two....

There’s a piece about reading by The Tulsa World’s Julie DelCour in the Sunday, Aug. 8 issue. It has to do with Tulsa’s position (#21) in the literacy rankings of the 69 largest U.S. cities. ...

Dr. Ferguson is the Oxford-educated Harvard historian who hit the first home run, post 2008 credit bubble-debacle, by writing The Ascent of Money — a Financial History of the World. ...

The science of neuroeconomics is about tradeoffs. Our ancestors spent millions of years learning to be impatient. We eat a lot today because we are hardwired to think that food might not be available tomorrow. ...

I was listening to NPR this morning. Does "fair and balanced" mean listening to NPR with one's left ear and Fox News with his right? Could be....

The former CEO of Barnes & Noble and his family has been much in the news of late....

Have you tried to borrow money lately from a bank? They want your credit to be downright impeccable; even then, it is likely that you will pay fairly robust interest....

First the Monday a.m. headline on MSN Money’s Web site says “Stocks Struggle…” and then another headline indicates, moments later, that stocks are rising ...

The Aug. 27 newspaper says 9.9% of U.S. mortgage holders have missed at least one payment, down slightly from April 30’s record high, when it was higher than 10%. The newspaper did not have a headline that screamed the good news, like my headline above....

It’s almost over. In Tulsa, the schools are mostly open now — our educational year seems to be based on harvesting wheat and on building up extra closing days for when there are ice or snowstorms, weather that Oklahoma is ill-equipped to handle. ...

China is now the world’s No. 2 economy. We are still No. 1 and will probably be so for a decade or two....

There’s a piece about reading by The Tulsa World’s Julie DelCour in the Sunday, Aug. 8 issue. It has to do with Tulsa’s position (#21) in the literacy rankings of the 69 largest U.S. cities. ...

Dr. Ferguson is the Oxford-educated Harvard historian who hit the first home run, post 2008 credit bubble-debacle, by writing The Ascent of Money — a Financial History of the World. ...

The science of neuroeconomics is about tradeoffs. Our ancestors spent millions of years learning to be impatient. We eat a lot today because we are hardwired to think that food might not be available tomorrow. ...

I was listening to NPR this morning. Does "fair and balanced" mean listening to NPR with one's left ear and Fox News with his right? Could be....

The former CEO of Barnes & Noble and his family has been much in the news of late....

Have you tried to borrow money lately from a bank? They want your credit to be downright impeccable; even then, it is likely that you will pay fairly robust interest....

First the Monday a.m. headline on MSN Money’s Web site says “Stocks Struggle…” and then another headline indicates, moments later, that stocks are rising ...