Even if you can’t make it to Austin for the big South by Southwest conference this week, there’s plenty going on online, including new (and free!) music, great ideas in social media and other ways to boost your business without spending a lot of cash, and innovative technologies to keep up with the kids these [...]
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How much would you pay to take a piano lesson from Frederic Chopin? In his time, adjusted for inflation, the price tag on a piano lesson with Chopin would fall somewhere between $50 and $96 in 2010 dollars. Worth it? Classical station WDAV in North Carolina reports:
Considering the average daily wage for an unskilled laborer [...]
You wouldn’t know there was a recession by watching last night’s Grammy Awards – the chorus of Beyonce’s winning song, “Single Ladies (Put A Ring On It)” has echoes of “Diamonds are a Girl’s Best Friend” and the glitz and glamour exhibited in the nominees outfits – like Lady Gaga’s silver ensemble — were far [...]
PBS NewsHour’s Paul Solman profiles economist Russ Roberts and Spike TV producer John Papola’s upcoming rap video featuring a rhyme-off pitting John Maynard Keynes against F.A. Hayek.
NPR’s Planet Money blog explains.
From stock market charts to music parodies, the economy definitely has some rhythm, and maybe that’s why a few new projects that are taking music as an inspiration, both literally and figuratively, as public media covers the economy.
A big “ewww!” was my first reaction to this week’s PRX EconomyBeat podcast, which takes us [...]
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