With M&A activity booming recently, our resident
curmudgeon has fun with stock tickers.

No, a TRAKR isn't the name of some newfangled SUV; it’s a futures contract that trades like a stock.

Nothing goes down like a pint of ale – until you start thinking of all the house it’s costing you.

At last, a real solution to the Social Security dilemma. The resident Curmudgeon thinks inside the box.

What do Ken Jennings, Jeopardy! and Alex Trebek have to do with indexing? That’s the $64,000 question.

The Curmudgeon's holiday mailbag runneth over - with complaints, complaints and more complaints.

The Curmudgeon WANTS YOU (to write his column).
A hilarious reflection on the creative process.