Sparks Commentary

“Learning to write by trial and error not only calls for patience on the writer’s part, it also taxes the patience of wives, landlords, and ...

I should preface this by saying that I have a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, with a Concentration in Marketing. I don’t ha...

"The use of language begins with imitation. The infant imitates the sounds made by its parents; the child imitates first the spoken l...

This post expands upon a story from a previous blog post, linked to here .

I would wager that many a student has taken a statistics class, and been introduced to bell curves without having the slightest idea why t...

One of the great surprises of my  education  was how much I liked psychology. This would have surprised me in my younger days, as I though...

"Let's start with what economics isn't.  Economics isn't a meal ticket to make lots of money in the stock market, althoug...