Financial Wake-Up Call 4-2-2007
The Reason You Should Eat Dessert At A Place Other Than At A Restaurant: The first reason I assume that most people reading here would come up with is the price since dessert is one of the items that has a huge mark-up at restaurants. Another reason, of which you may not be aware, is that even if the restaurant claims that their desserts are store made, in all likelihood they aren’t. If you want fresh dessert made at the establishment, you’ll need to go someplace else.
Living on a Dollar a Day: How the world’s poorest really spend their money.
The “very poor” are those who live on less than $1 a day. That benchmark–a rare piece of brilliant marketing from the World Bank–is both more generous and more frugal than it seems. Generous, because the benchmark dates from 1985 and has since been adjusted to take account of inflation. But frugal because the dollar is adjusted for purchasing power. In other words, a Kenyan farmer might have 50 cents a day to spend but still not count as “very poor” because 50 cents in Kenya buys more than $1 would in the United States. However you look at it, a dollar a day is a tiny income.
And if you need more reading to start the week, here are some carnivals:
3rd link (thief one) is dead.