Daily Archives: July 6, 2010

Scared cookless: Foodiephobia takes shape

July 6, 2010 – 3:04 pm

by Charlotte Beal WHAT’S HAPPENING In a recent blog post for TheAtlantic.com, Lesley Freeman Riva wrote about a phenomenon she calls Foodiephobia: When Friends Fear Feeding You (5.26.10). Freeman Riva describes how she happily entertains (and cooks for) friends at her house, but then she began to notice that people rarely reciprocate. Finally, some of […]

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Who forecloses? It’s all in the math

July 6, 2010 – 8:40 am

by Hans Eisenbeis WHAT’S HAPPENING The toll of financial illiteracy — and even more fundamentally, math illiteracy — can be staggering. A June 2010 study by Columbia University researchers found a direct correlation between a lack of simple math skills and foreclosure rates (NYTimes.com 6.9.10). Economists found that about 16% of surveyed consumers could not […]

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