Poverty Playlist: “Please Mrs. Henry” by Bob Dylan
“Please, Missus Henry, Missus Henry, please!
I’m down on my knees
An’ I ain’t got a dime.”
Chestnuts roasting…
I love this photo, taken by my friend Veronica during the great snow deluge a few weeks ago. My feet are on the right, in borrowed socks, because I wore ballet flats in the slush and I could no longer feel my toes.
The log in this fireplace represents an epic slog to 7-11 through the [...]
Fun Money
Just because Wall Street and the likes of Bernie Madoff played us all for fools doesn’t mean you can’t treat he economy like a game, too.
Over at the Medill Money Mavens blog, my classmate Shahzad Chaudhary developed some quick and entertaining flash games related to a few of the public companies we cover.
With The Ratio [...]
For hire
Since I’ll be in Washington D.C. when I graduate in December, I’m sucking in all the positive news about the job market there and ignoring all the negative. In keeping with my constructed reality, Indeed.com has a new study putting the District of Columbia at the top of its list for job market competition. There [...]
Two Bits!
I keep a mental tally of items that I think cost too much. Often, they’re things I find tedious anyway and I resent them even more because I find them disproportionately expensive.
With most of them– like socks and safety razors– I buy regardless, after a little grumbling. But with haircuts, I’ve been known to strike [...]
Students piling on more debt
College students are taking on more debt than they used to for school, accord to an article in the New York Times on Tuesday.
Data from the federal Department of Education’s National Postsecondary Student Aid Study indicates that the average amount student borrow for Bachelor’s degrees has increased.
According to the study, the median loan debt was [...]
Cash for Clunkers
Even as a non-driver, I can’t seem to escape the buzz around Cash for Clunkers program, encouraging motorists to take a rebate for their fuel inefficient vehicles and thinning car inventories. But already interest in the program has fallen off, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Wisebread had a neat take on the buzz around the [...]
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09
Check out my post for Medill Money Mavens about June's industrial production http://bit.ly/aOLFH #
Take a look at my new Craigslist bicycle! http://twitpic.com/csny7 #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-08-09
Check out my post for Medill Money Mavens about June's industrial production http://bit.ly/aOLFH #
Take a look at my new Craigslist bicycle! http://twitpic.com/csny7 #
Keep cool
I was dishing about the summer temperatures with an Indian classmate not too long ago when he mentioned that he has always seen cranking up the air conditioning as kind of a status symbol. However, he perceived that in America, freedom from sweaty pits is right up there with life and liberty on the [...]
Bloguration
Welcome to Hankincents, where I’m blogging about money and how to keep up with it. In lieu of smashing a bottle of champagne on my laptop, I want to kick things off with an introduction.
My name is Kellen Henry and I’m a graduate student at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, studying interactive media and [...]
