Suggested from WSJ article: Our Big Problem
For much of the population, family meals are a ritual of the past: Thirty-six percent of British children never eat a meal at a table with another member of their family or household (we have now passed the milestone long desired by radical social reformers, more children being born illegitimate than legitimate).
Percent of births to unmarried women in the United States
Chart source is National Vital Statistics Report: Births: Final Data for 2006. PDF
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Creamy pasta with chicken, salad and pudding
Eggs, summer sausage, Tabasco sauce burritos
Creamy pasta with chicken, salad and pudding
Eggs, summer sausage, Tabasco sauce burritos
I’d like to visit in the fall to see it as Hitchock did in “The Trouble with Harry.”
I enjoyed hearing and talking with Becky McCray, a principal blogger for Small Biz Survival at SXSW 2010.
The list of businesses she runs vary from a cattle ranch (she lives in western Oklahoma) to a liquor store to a web site to a consulting firm for small businesses. “I fill out four Schedule Cs with my income taxes.”
It’s easy to get focus on tech entrepreneurship in major cities but Small Biz Survival focuses on the smaller areas of the country. It also has good advice for those on smaller budgets too.
Here are two good posts recently I enjoyed reading:
How do you make FourSquare relevant for small towns
On location-based data:
Now, that same scenario makes less sense in a small town. We just don’t need that kind of location data. We already know what all the local restaurants are like. There are only four, and we’ve eaten at all of them this week. (Sad, but true.)
Can you teach entrepreneurship
Being a successful entrepreneur requires some particular skills. Many programs exist to teach entrepenuership in schools, in community organizations and in entrepreneurial support groups, but debate continues over whether entrepreneurship can really be taught. Are you born an entrepreneur, or can you learn to become one?
A featured article on the blog by her is Say NO gracefully
Small businesses are constantly hit with offers from potential suppliers, hopeful partners, and even potential customers. Then there are the constant requests for free help, volunteer work, donations, and even jobs. You can’t possibly do it all. Let’s face it. Being in business means saying “no” a lot.
Money market rates are so low these days that under the mattress is such a poor choice these days. Vanguard Prime is currently paying .01% through the first quarter of 2010
But rates will probably remain soft at least through the transition of new liquidity rules for money market accounts being proposed by the SEC, the WSJ reports.
The new rules will require funds to shorten the average maturities of their holdings, restricting, among other things, the maximum weighted average maturity of a fund’s portfolio to 60 days from 90 days. Funds also will have to maintain a minimum of 10% of assets in securities that mature in one day and 30% in securities that mature in one week.
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