Business At The Movies: The Big Short

Our copy of the Big Short here.

This movie is a star-studded account of Michael Lewis's book of the same name. It's a good way to introduce yourself to the events leading up to the 2008 – 2009 financial crisis.

Researching Banks' Balance Sheets

American Financial Directory is a good print reference source that provides information on individual banks' outstanding loans, deposits, and other information.

It doesn't seem to have detailed information on the big boys - just smaller banks - so Mergent is my preferred database for getting that kind of information. You know - Wells Fargo, Bank of America, Capital One, etc...Check their financials.

This is a cool website from the government that gives you up-to-minute financial information for your bank.

Cool New Economics Blog: Evonomics

We're in need of fresh thinking on economics big time, so here's a blog called Evonomics. Worth reading and provocative.

Find Individual Consumers in Reference USA

Reference USA lets you enter characteristics (income, interests, and more) and then returns actual individuals (national, or by zip code, county, etc.). Includes street addresses and some phone numbers. You can also look up by individual name.

Prince And Artistic Control Vs Publicity

Prince famously hated YouTube and would not allow his music, nor even guitar lessons based on his songs to be posted. He wanted control over his music and wanted understandably to be paid.

He famously also held out on the major music streaming services until he signed with Jay'Z's service.

It's tough call – make sure you get paid at the expense of publicity?

How to Search by Radius In Simply Map

Stats on The Gig Economy

Traditional stats are lagging tracking the gig economy. You know, UBER, Airbnb, Lyft and so on. So I found Mish, the great blogger, who recently tackled measuring this subject.

http://mishtalk.com/2016/03/27/how-big-is-the-gig-economy-what-about-permatemps/

http://mishtalk.com/2016/03/28/gig-economy-take-ii-entire-increase-in-employment-since-2010-is-in-gigs/