You're right, MRSA alert!

Or it could be that you're choosing completely arbitrary stats. If you take 70% of LeBron's PER you get around Lamarcus Aldridge/Goran Dragic/Tim Duncan/Dwight Howard. If you take 70% of Peyton Manning's touchdowns you get Drew Brees. If you take 40% of Mike Trout's WAR (adjusted based on a 0 WAR for the replacement…

What bank is this?

What about the skirt suit?

His career .920 save percentage is good for second-best in NHL history, behind only Dominik Hasek.

It's hard to find new goodyear or hand welted shoes with full grain leather for less $200. Those that you do find are likely manufactured in developing nations.

I don't see what a plausible alternative to Donald Sterling selling the team would be. The team was well on its way to being dumped by all of its sponsors and never landing a free agent player again. Its current players were on the verge of boycott if any lesser action were levied on Sterling. The only thing Sterling…

See my post below (or above - I'm not sure how Kinja works anymore) regarding the 7% as the portfolio return, not just the stock market return return. It is usually not advisable to hold a portfolio 100% devoted to equities for the entire duration of your career (unless you're already wealthy).

Few people have their portfolio 100% allocated to stocks for the entire duration of their career. The actual return on investments is probably best judged by looking at the return of pension funds, especially for those companies that shifted to fixed contribution plans, as you have a pool of aging workers in that…

The 7% is used to calculate the return on assets, the 3% is used to calculate the inflation of expenses (the discount rate). At the end of 30 years, the $3 million saved means that you would be able to spend $120,000 annually with a 4% withdraw rate. In present value terms, the amount saved would be approximately…

The 7% per year return cited in the article appears to be the nominal return, not the real return. Thus the $3 million at the end of 30 years would have a present value of $1.2 million getting you the ~$50,000 per year.

If the writer wants people to espouse the belief that saving consistently is important, that's great, but the math here is flat out contradictory.

The Pantheon of hockey stars looks about right: http://pantheon.media.mit.edu/treemap/domain…

Really it depends on your investment goals. There's a difference between trying to maximize your wealth (and returns) and trying to grow your wealth enough to meet financial obligations (returns constrained by maximum acceptable losses). To take two extremes, for Warren Buffet it makes sense to invest the entirety of…

Let's assume that there is a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. How do you think the money would be distributed among NBC - Comcast, Lolo Jones, and the US Bobsled and Skeleton Federation?

I wonder if your perspective would change if you were an actual bobsled aficionado. She seems to be in a similar position to Tim Tebow. One could make the exact same arguments you've posited for Tebow playing in the NFL, if evaluated from a 'holistic perspective' he's had a successful win-loss record on the field, his…

This just seems like a mental accounting gimmick with no practical effect.

I have a hard time figuring out the mechanics of how offering players salaries would work.

I disagree.

For the sartorially inclined, there are key visual differences between a suit, a sport coat, and a blazer. Sport coats and blazers are designed to be worn with non-matching pants while suit jackets should as a general rule be worn with matching pants.