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February 10th, 2010 by unponakanku
We all want our children to grow up financially responsible. We want them to understand money and to know how to function in a society that rewards the prudent and punishes the careless.
The public school system has developed programs with the help of businesses and organizations like Charles Schwab that teach specifics of handling money and wealth.
I want to take a look at some of the information being taught at different ages by the public school system.
As you read with me it is important that you draw your own conclusions about what is being taught. Is it too advanced, just right or not advanced enough?
I will be looking at fourth-graders, eighth-graders and seniors in high school (”twelfth-graders”) in twelve different areas of consumer finance that they will be faced with.
The articles will be isolated by grade and by general topic so should you choose to follow the “series” you will be able to do so.
This article is the first one starting with fourth-graders with respect to “Financial Responsibility and Decision Making.”
There are six standards for fourth-graders. Standard one requires the fourth-grade student to take responsibility for personal financial decisions. How is this demonstrated?
First of all the student is expected to list examples of financial decisions and their possible consequences. Further they are to identify ways to be a financially responsible person.
Standard 2 requires the student to find and evaluate financial information from a variety of sources.
Standard three asks the student to summarize major consumer protection laws. This can be done by comparing return policies at a local retail store.
The 4th standard involves making financial decisions by systematically considering alternatives.
Standard five asks students in the fourth grade to “develop communication strategies with respect to money. They are to give examples of how members of past generations spent money as children as well as analyze values and attitudes of past generations.
Standard six relates to controlling personal information by listing personal information that should not be released to other people.
By following these standards a fourth-grade student can identify financial decisions, what information is needed to make one, how to “comparison shop; set goals; give examples of the way people “used to do it” and to be prudent with their private information.
This informational structure is good as are the key points. My only concern is that it may be too complex at this early of an age. However, a parent must draw their own conclusion and as a matter of fact this is what is being taught.
References:
“National Standards in K-12 Personal Finance Education,” Booklet, 2007, Jumpstart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy, 1-888-45-EDUCATE
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Are you interested in knowing how your spending patterns compare with others? If you are, then you should bookmark Bundle’s Everybody’s Money. This web site provides one of the most comprehensive online data for consumer spending patterns in the United States.
To get started with Bundle, click on Spending to view the generated data on spending patterns. Browse through the animated bubbles according to basic criteria such as age, type of household, amount of income, and location, or according to spend type. You can find out how people where they spend their money on by hovering your cursor over the bubbles and clicking Go Deep to view the details. You can also take the Bundle Spending Quiz to find out what kind of spender you are and compare your results with your Facebook friends.
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This guest post is by Ivo Pezzuto, Professor at the Swiss Management Center University (SMCU) in Zurich, Switzerland, and an experienced observer of the global financial services industry.
I share the analysis of most economists and observers that the following are among the main causes of the current global financial crisis:
- the U.S. Federal Reserve’s low interest rate policy at the beginning of the last decade, the resulting credit euphoria of both lenders and borrowers;
- the more ”relaxed” credit initiation and control policies and procedures of lenders;
- the “exotic” innovative features of some mortgage lending products;
- the overwhelmingly optimistic view of future house prices which prevailed in the market that has led to both the housing and the mortgage lending bubbles;
- the widespread use of badly controlled (OTC trading) innovative financial engineering tools (i.e., derivatives, securitizations, CDS, CDO, MBS, RMBS, CLO, etc.).
- Imbalances, exchange rates and interest rates differences between the US and other emerging economies and the resulting speculative trading and arbitrages.
As I reported on October 7th, 2008 in my SMCU working paper (ISSN 1662-761X), however, from a more thorough and in–depth analysis of how the U.S. subprime mortgage loans crisis has originated and evolved, it seems to me that this dramatic financial and economic event might not have been generated only by the above mentioned items.
My assumption is that many bankers probably knew quite well what was really happening to their subprime mortgages portfolios and why. These explanations are reported in my SMCU working paper which can be downloaded free-of-charge from this link, or reading my chapter (chapter 16) in the forthcoming book of Robert W. Kolb, Professor of Finance/Frank W. Considine Chair of Applied Ethics at the School of Business – Loyola University Chicago.
These days, unfortunately, we are still reading of the persistence of unethical or at least “questionable” behaviours of some key players in the financial industry. Some of these organizations are rewarding their executives with higher salaries and bonuses, while 10% of the American workforce is unemployed thanks to “miraculous lending and financial engineering” practices.
I am not against in principle granting employees and executives generous bonuses if they are well deserved. I just hope that after such a dramatic crisis, there will be more rigorous attention to reward only those who have actually worked to improved general economic conditions and not only their personal wealth through financial speculation.
Furthermore, it seems as if some organizations are still relying on the “too-big-to-fail” philosophy and on the government’s protection to continue to grow aggressively their highly volatile derivatives and investment banking portfolios, or using the TARP funds (provided by the US taxpayers) and the Federal Reserve’s aggressive “monetary easing” policy (Fed Funds close to zero % or “money for free”) to increase their present and future salaries/bonuses through more profitable speculative operations.
The massive protections, recapitalizations, nationalizations, and financial and liquidity support banks received were orchestrated by governments and central banks to avoid systemic risks (long recession and potential depression) and the highly probable implosion of giant banks and other key financial institutions in the US and other markets. Now it is very sad to see that some of these funds have been misused by some bankers to continue to speculate in highly profitable and risky financial engineering operations instead of devoting their time, money, effort, and soul in helping troubled companies to avoid bankruptcy, the overall economy to grow, to reduce unemployment, to invest in R&D and innovation projects, to finance sustainability and green economy projects, and to restore trust and hope in the mind of troubled mortgage loans borrowers.
It is also sad seeing some bankers aggressively rejecting any introduction of additional and necessary regulation of the financial sector since they think that the bad times are over now. Regarding this last issue, I would like to stress the an important point. We all know that banking and financial markets are globalized today, thus the G20 countries have to be very careful not to introduce in the coming months or years significant discrepancies in their countries’ regulations of the financial sector – otherwise there will new opportunities for arbitrages and speculations taking advantage of the different national policies and rules.
Overall, I think we still have a long way to go…. …… but fortunately, I feel that President Obama is moving in the right direction.
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@rww there's a new UK personal finance site in beta called @MoneyDashboard http://www.moneydashboard.com/
Posted by: Steven Renwick |
January 7, 2010 12:22 PM
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Also don't forget freeagent http://www.freeagentcentral.com/ - it's great for the self employed in the UK, with built in invoice tracking and self-assessment.
Posted by: Andy B |
January 7, 2010 2:21 PM
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I have used mint off and on. I love how the design and user interface, but I wish it would work with the bank that holds my checking account. Perhaps i'll try out some of your other suggestions. Thanks for the info!
JG
loanpointusa
Posted by: Joe |
January 7, 2010 2:35 PM
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I've been very happy with Xpenser. I can setup a budget and record expenses with email and sms (it also does twitter and im and a few other things). The main thing for me is ease of use so I stick with it, and this is the only one simple enough to stay with.
Posted by: Paula |
January 7, 2010 3:33 PM
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For those looking for a more proactive approach to managing finances and budgeting (versus the reactive reporting approach supported by most tools), check out the Easy Envelope Budget Aid, built natively for Android and the mobile Web. It's based on the envelope budgeting approach of setting aside cash for particular expenses–in advance–and then spending out of those categories on a declining balance basis. Stop before you run out of your balance as opposed to find out after-thefact that you overspent.
EEBA lets you check your envelope balances and record transactions at point of sale allowing you to carry your virtual “envelopes” with you.
We're in open Beta right now, website at www.eebacanhelp.com
Posted by: Chi-Ming @ EEBA |
January 7, 2010 5:27 PM
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Where is Mint's mobile site? I've never seen it.
Posted by: Sivan |
January 7, 2010 6:08 PM
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There is also Serbian money management web application Slamarica . It's oriented not just for Serbia, but for all Adriatic region. There's more info on Digg http://digg.com/business_finance/Serbian_No_1_money_management_home_finance_web_application
Posted by: Nemanja Djordjevic |
January 9, 2010 1:04 AM
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Thanks for this article. I'm looking forward to the rest. I find it interesting that http://moneycenter.yodlee.com doesn't show up more often in personal finance software reviews. It's free as well, and is quite feature rich. Part of the problem is Yodlee doesn't do that much to market the consumer side. (For good reason, they give it away. 
Posted by: Philip Eoute |
January 9, 2010 9:54 PM
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@Chi-Ming thanks for telling us about EEBA. I'm definitely trying that out!
Posted by: Philip Eoute |
January 9, 2010 9:55 PM
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@Philip, you're welcome. We're iterating quickly, so let us know what you think!
Posted by: Chi-Ming @ EEBA |
January 9, 2010 11:01 PM
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I just love Mint… simple and easy to use… user friendly.. what can I say! Thumb up!
Posted by: RichDadWisdom |
January 10, 2010 6:46 AM
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But with any of the above: (1) can you manually add accounts not on their automated list; (2) multiple currency feature; (3) mobile/iPhone app?
I've tried Mint and Wesabe. Mint is US-only. Wesabe has dreadful import (all tags/categories are lost) and doesn't believe in account reconciliation (”Why would want that feature?” was their reply; perhaps b/c it's the oldest accounting feature in the book and I don't trust a bank's statement.)
I'm with MoneyWell (which uses envelope accounting), and is serving me well enough. But everyone's been waiting well over a year for a promised iPhone app.
I would pay handsomely for any online financial programme that satisfied all 3 feature requests above.
Posted by: Mr Ulster |
January 11, 2010 6:22 AM
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In the uk theres http://www.inniaccounts.co.uk, but it's more for contractors
Posted by: Toby |
January 11, 2010 11:47 PM
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I started using Mint but quickly realized that its sponsors and partners, the big banks, don't want you to use cash. Most of these “free” sites to manage your money encourage one thing - card use. Whether it's credit cards or debit cards, they make using and tracking them easy, and using and tracking cash difficult. This is because the banks all make money on card transactions, whether they are debit or credit based. They make no money on cash transactions. One of the best ways to save money and control spending is by using cash, and none of these services encourage that, by their design.
Posted by: B |
January 13, 2010 11:54 AM
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Interesting article - what is the revenue model for sites like Mint, Kublax, MoneyStrands if the resource is free?
Posted by: Ciaran O'Reilly |
January 14, 2010 7:05 AM
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Mvelopes also offers online personal finance management. It isn't free but I like the envelope based budgeting which forces you to cut down on spending. It also offers mobile access so you can track your spending while you're out shopping.
Posted by: Valerie @ Finance Software Store |
January 14, 2010 5:28 PM
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I wonder how Cloud computing will influence online financial transactions. I am waiting to see what security issues evolve first.
Posted by: Stop Home Foreclosure |
January 18, 2010 5:53 PM
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Does anyone have any recommendations for Australia?
Posted by: Marksin |
January 21, 2010 2:07 PM
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How do users of these web-based financial programs feel about having their financial data available to these companies and the problematic privacy issues?
Posted by: Jeff |
January 23, 2010 3:38 PM
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Yes, but does Mint allow you to export all your data (including tags/categories) so that you could port it into another program? As far as I can tell, it doesn't. I have several years of data built up using Quicken for Mac. This represents not only a lot of work on my part, but an important resource for understanding my spending patterns (not to mention for calculating capital gains/losses on stock transactions come tax time). I've gotten sick of Quicken's sucky user interface (and the fact that it doesn't run natively on an Intel/Leopard mac) and I'm going to switch either to iBank or Moneywell (haven't decided yet). These are both desktop programs. iBank already has an iPhone app that synchronizes with the desktop version, and Moneywell is building one. Importing all of my old data from Quicken into either of these programs will be a piece of cake, as will exporting from these programs should I change my mind later. They also talk with my bank, just as Mint does. With my data synchronized to my iPod touch, I'll have continuous access to it, all without losing control over it. The problem with Mint is that once you start spending time customizing your data, adding tags, etc, you can't leave the Mint interface without losing your work. I'm not going to use any platform that attempts to hold me hostage like that.
Posted by: Sarah |
January 24, 2010 11:33 AM
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In the UK we've been developing the new one on lovemoney.com - be good to know what you think of that too. https://www.lovemoney.com/onlinebanking/
Posted by: emma davies |
January 29, 2010 3:31 AM
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@rww there's a new UK personal finance site in beta called @MoneyDashboard http://www.moneydashboard.com/
Posted by: Steven Renwick |
January 7, 2010 12:22 PM
-
Also don't forget freeagent http://www.freeagentcentral.com/ - it's great for the self employed in the UK, with built in invoice tracking and self-assessment.
Posted by: Andy B |
January 7, 2010 2:21 PM
-
I have used mint off and on. I love how the design and user interface, but I wish it would work with the bank that holds my checking account. Perhaps i'll try out some of your other suggestions. Thanks for the info!
JG
loanpointusa
Posted by: Joe |
January 7, 2010 2:35 PM
-
I've been very happy with Xpenser. I can setup a budget and record expenses with email and sms (it also does twitter and im and a few other things). The main thing for me is ease of use so I stick with it, and this is the only one simple enough to stay with.
Posted by: Paula |
January 7, 2010 3:33 PM
-
For those looking for a more proactive approach to managing finances and budgeting (versus the reactive reporting approach supported by most tools), check out the Easy Envelope Budget Aid, built natively for Android and the mobile Web. It's based on the envelope budgeting approach of setting aside cash for particular expenses–in advance–and then spending out of those categories on a declining balance basis. Stop before you run out of your balance as opposed to find out after-thefact that you overspent.
EEBA lets you check your envelope balances and record transactions at point of sale allowing you to carry your virtual “envelopes” with you.
We're in open Beta right now, website at www.eebacanhelp.com
Posted by: Chi-Ming @ EEBA |
January 7, 2010 5:27 PM
-
Where is Mint's mobile site? I've never seen it.
Posted by: Sivan |
January 7, 2010 6:08 PM
-
There is also Serbian money management web application Slamarica . It's oriented not just for Serbia, but for all Adriatic region. There's more info on Digg http://digg.com/business_finance/Serbian_No_1_money_management_home_finance_web_application
Posted by: Nemanja Djordjevic |
January 9, 2010 1:04 AM
-
Thanks for this article. I'm looking forward to the rest. I find it interesting that http://moneycenter.yodlee.com doesn't show up more often in personal finance software reviews. It's free as well, and is quite feature rich. Part of the problem is Yodlee doesn't do that much to market the consumer side. (For good reason, they give it away.
Posted by: Philip Eoute |
January 9, 2010 9:54 PM
-
@Chi-Ming thanks for telling us about EEBA. I'm definitely trying that out!
Posted by: Philip Eoute |
January 9, 2010 9:55 PM
-
@Philip, you're welcome. We're iterating quickly, so let us know what you think!
Posted by: Chi-Ming @ EEBA |
January 9, 2010 11:01 PM
-
I just love Mint… simple and easy to use… user friendly.. what can I say! Thumb up!
Posted by: RichDadWisdom |
January 10, 2010 6:46 AM
-
But with any of the above: (1) can you manually add accounts not on their automated list; (2) multiple currency feature; (3) mobile/iPhone app?
I've tried Mint and Wesabe. Mint is US-only. Wesabe has dreadful import (all tags/categories are lost) and doesn't believe in account reconciliation (”Why would want that feature?” was their reply; perhaps b/c it's the oldest accounting feature in the book and I don't trust a bank's statement.)
I'm with MoneyWell (which uses envelope accounting), and is serving me well enough. But everyone's been waiting well over a year for a promised iPhone app.
I would pay handsomely for any online financial programme that satisfied all 3 feature requests above.
Posted by: Mr Ulster |
January 11, 2010 6:22 AM
-
In the uk theres http://www.inniaccounts.co.uk, but it's more for contractors
Posted by: Toby |
January 11, 2010 11:47 PM
-
I started using Mint but quickly realized that its sponsors and partners, the big banks, don't want you to use cash. Most of these “free” sites to manage your money encourage one thing - card use. Whether it's credit cards or debit cards, they make using and tracking them easy, and using and tracking cash difficult. This is because the banks all make money on card transactions, whether they are debit or credit based. They make no money on cash transactions. One of the best ways to save money and control spending is by using cash, and none of these services encourage that, by their design.
Posted by: B |
January 13, 2010 11:54 AM
-
Interesting article - what is the revenue model for sites like Mint, Kublax, MoneyStrands if the resource is free?
Posted by: Ciaran O'Reilly |
January 14, 2010 7:05 AM
-
Mvelopes also offers online personal finance management. It isn't free but I like the envelope based budgeting which forces you to cut down on spending. It also offers mobile access so you can track your spending while you're out shopping.
Posted by: Valerie @ Finance Software Store |
January 14, 2010 5:28 PM
-
I wonder how Cloud computing will influence online financial transactions. I am waiting to see what security issues evolve first.
Posted by: Stop Home Foreclosure |
January 18, 2010 5:53 PM
-
Does anyone have any recommendations for Australia?
Posted by: Marksin |
January 21, 2010 2:07 PM
-
How do users of these web-based financial programs feel about having their financial data available to these companies and the problematic privacy issues?
Posted by: Jeff |
January 23, 2010 3:38 PM
-
Yes, but does Mint allow you to export all your data (including tags/categories) so that you could port it into another program? As far as I can tell, it doesn't. I have several years of data built up using Quicken for Mac. This represents not only a lot of work on my part, but an important resource for understanding my spending patterns (not to mention for calculating capital gains/losses on stock transactions come tax time). I've gotten sick of Quicken's sucky user interface (and the fact that it doesn't run natively on an Intel/Leopard mac) and I'm going to switch either to iBank or Moneywell (haven't decided yet). These are both desktop programs. iBank already has an iPhone app that synchronizes with the desktop version, and Moneywell is building one. Importing all of my old data from Quicken into either of these programs will be a piece of cake, as will exporting from these programs should I change my mind later. They also talk with my bank, just as Mint does. With my data synchronized to my iPod touch, I'll have continuous access to it, all without losing control over it. The problem with Mint is that once you start spending time customizing your data, adding tags, etc, you can't leave the Mint interface without losing your work. I'm not going to use any platform that attempts to hold me hostage like that.
Posted by: Sarah |
January 24, 2010 11:33 AM
-
In the UK we've been developing the new one on lovemoney.com - be good to know what you think of that too. https://www.lovemoney.com/onlinebanking/
Posted by: emma davies |
January 29, 2010 3:31 AM
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The leading activist group behind healthcare reform, HCAN, is urging Congress to pass real, comprehensive reform.
Health Care for America Now is putting its money where its mouth is. Last week, the nation's largest reform campaign put itself on the side of major labor organizations, and leading members of Congress, saying the way out of the Democrats' health care conundrum is for the House to pass the Senate's legislation, and then pair it with a separate package amending key financing and structural aspects of the bill. This week, they're stepping up their efforts to make sure that happens.
The group has launched a new website to help supporters contact their members of Congress to deliver the following message. ”I need quality, affordable health care, not politics. This is about health care for everyone, not a special election in Massachusetts.”
That process could work, according to what Dem aides on both sides of the Hill told Greg Sargent–House Members can be persuaded to vote for the Senate bill if those fixes are guaranteed.
Senior aides on both sides tell me that despite Nancy Pelosi’s claim that she doesn’t have the votes to pass the Senate health bill in the House, the Dem leadership still thinks it’s possible to win over enough House members to do it — if they’re convinced that fixing it through reconciliation is procedurally realistic.
This gets at an aspect of this whole discussion that’s been lost in the noise. Specifically, there’s good reason for many House Dems to say right now that they can’t vote for the Senate bill, even if it includes a “reconciliation fix”: The leadership has not persuasively made the case — yet — that such a fix can actually work….
“Say you’re a House member who’s worried about his own political stuff,” one senior Senate aide says. “You need to be convinced that, whatever this is, it can work. They’re not gonna get to the point [where they might support it] until they see that piece of paper.”
A senior House aide adds that things could change with that piece of paper, pointing out that leadership wouldn’t be discussing this option if they didn’t remain persuaded that House Dems could still support it in big enough numbers for it to pass.
That “piece of paper” is presumably a pledge from the Senate that there are 50 votes for reconciliation. The actual procedure is probably less of a concern than working out which elements of the reform would need to be in the reconciliation package and it's not clear yet what will fall into that rubric. With the starting point of what had already been decided upon in negotiations pre-Massachusetts, there's a good starting point for an agreement.
If you have a Dem representative or Senator(s), call them, and you can use HCAN's new website to make it easy. Tell them, including your Senator(s), to commit to making reform work through the reconciliation process.
Mary HK Choi: Really quick background question: were you prompted to eat Domino's because of their new ad campaign?
David Cho: Oh for sure, I'd been watching those commercials for the last couple of weeks.
Mary: Me too.
David: They make a really compelling argument!
Mary: Agreed. There's something about contrition that makes me want to throw money at it.
Mary: Was the line "When they said our sauce tasted like ketchup it broke my heart" what got you?
Mary: Because it definitely did me.
David: Not to mention the guarantee.
David: What percentage of people ever actually follow through with something like that, to go to the trouble of saying, "I'M NOT SATISFIED WITH THIS PIZZA, GIMME MY MONEY BACK"?
Mary: So from a business standpoint you respect their G also?
David: Yeah, I just like when brands prey on people's laziness by making promises that seem to mean more than they actually do.
David: Very savvy.
David: I also like 40% more herbs in the sauce.
Mary: Numbers.
David: Numb3rs.
Mary: You love numbers.
David: I LOVE CBS HOUR-LONG DRAMAS!
Mary: GAY.
Mary: Final background question: How often did you eat Domino's before the new formula?
David: Not much really.
David: My fast food pizza allegiance lies with Papa John's.
David: I think I would eat anything covered in that garlic butter.
Mary: Even more so than the mom and pop fold 'em up New York pizza parlors?
David: 95% of the pizza in this city is not as good as Papa John's, based solely on the garlic butter.
Mary: POWERFUL statement. And one I do not totally disagree with.
David: But let me qualify that comment by saying that it's really like comparing apples and oranges.
Mary: Right. Like how Taco Bell is not Mexican food so much as its own food group.
David: But I just say that because a lot of uppity people sleep on Papa John's because they're like, OH I HAVE TO GO TO LUZZO'S OR DI FARA'S OR WTF-EVER.
Mary: Right. We are excluding all pizza parlors you have to wait forever like an asshole for, because that shit is some fetishistic annoying "foodie" shit.
David: I mean I get that it's delicious, but Papa John's has its own charm and delicious-ness too!
Mary: Of course and you and I are lazies so we like when they bring it to us, and bring lots of it.
Mary: With SAUCE!
Mary: So let's talk about the damn pie.
David: I once went to a friend's house 20 blocks away one time because Papa John's doesn't deliver to my neighborhood.
PART ONE: THE SAUCE. 40% MORE HERBS T/F???
Mary: TRUE.
Mary: And by "herbs" I mean, things that make it taste like it has more layers of flavor.
Mary: Because who knows if they are real herbs.
David: YERP
David: It's better though!
David: Right?
David: It tastes more like something!
Mary: BUT.
Mary: More salty? T/F?
David: VERY MUCH MORE SALTY.
Mary: Better for sure.
Mary: And slightly more sweet.
David: YEAH
David: HERE'S A WORD OF ADVICE TO ANYONE WHO'S THINKING OF ORDERING A DOMINO'S PIZZA
Mary: Yes?
David: Do NOT get Italian sausage on it unless you are prepared for a very high level of salty AND sweetness created by the combo of the sausage and sauce.
Mary: YES.
Mary: Which was my folly, for half my pie.
Mary: Let's discuss crust.
Mary: Because we should've worked outside in.
PART TWO: THE CRUST. THOUGHTS?
Mary: David.
Mary: DAVID.
David: Yes, Mary?
Mary: Crust!
Mary: I detected more yellowish butter flavor crystals.
David: You're doing the crust a disservice
David: If you get this new pizza, the crust is THE KEY.
Mary: I agree.
Mary: And it's TASTY with the new sauce.
David: The highest praise I could give this crust is that it tastes like BREAD STIX™.
Mary: This is absolutely accurate.
David: Isn't that what we always want from our pizza crust though?
Mary: Well, you and I do. we've discussed that we prefer this to the "cracker" crust.
Mary: Texturally as well. Good pushback. Toothsome, as it were.
David: JUST LIKE I LIKE MY WOMEN.
David: Which actually isn't true at all.
Mary: I know.
Mary: You like rexi bitches.
David: BE SUBMISSIVE LIKE A GOOD ASIAN LADY KTHXBAI.
Mary: AND THIN THIIIIN.
Mary: Actually not like that second "thin," it's too fat.
David: So final answer: Domino's crust is nothing like girls that I want to date and the one's that your mother wishes you were more like.
Mary: YES. And yellow.
Mary: Question.
David: Yes'm.
Mary: There wasn't however a cheese element to the crust right?
Mary: Because now I am getting confused because the bread stix do.
David: No cheese, all garlic I thought.
David: Buttery and garlicky.
Mary: Agreed.
David: Well, there's two things
David: 1) bread stix.
David: 2) CHEESY stix.
Mary: Right.
David: Yeah, so a bread stick/x can just be with the glaze and the taste.
Mary: OK. Correct. Let's talk dough as a different factor from crust.
David: Not different at all.
David: Which I'm OK with.
David: My pizza palate isn't like the ones of pizza bloggers where they talk about "the hole."
Mary: I thought it was sturdy and good.
David: Yeah, tasted fine.
David: DID NOT BREAK.
Mary: OK. Let's talk cheese.
PART THREE: CHEESE. IS IT DIFFERENT?
David: So the last claim of the Domino's commercial is that they're using higher quality cheese with a blend.
Mary: I thought it was a more complex cheese flavor than the usual white epoxy cheese that they use.
Mary: It didn't taste like, say, a fresh buffalo mozz because that expectation is crazytown.
David: How do you think it compared as an "upgrade" compared to the sauce and crust though?
Mary: I did not think it was as marked an upgrade as crust and sauce.
Mary: BUT also a little saltier.
David: Are you sure that wasn't your sausage or sauce though?
Mary: The one thing I did notice was there was less cheese.
Mary: But I ordered mine in Los Angeles.
David: Really? Mine had a TON of cheese.
David: My roommate commented that it was almost "too cheesy"
Mary: Mischief's afoot.
Mary: I always pick off all the cheese.
Mary: Rearrange all the fixin's.
Mary: And then redistribute the cheese.
Mary: But in LA I did not have to.
David: So I guess the takeaway is don't order pizza from Domino's in LA?
Mary: Also, you're right. I have no idea about sausage saltiness as a factor for the cheese. Because that sausage salt cauterized my tongue into one giant pulsing tastebud.
David: Wait, do you do that with pizza here?
David: Like you go to a pizza place and rearrange the pizza to your likings?
Mary: Yes.
Mary: All the time.
David: Oh gosh.
David: Your hands must get GROSS.
Mary: Well sure.
Mary: But I am a disgusting eating partner.
Mary: At least, I blot and then redistribute.
David: So high maint.
Mary: And then I start wheedling whoever I'm with for their crust before anyone has gotten there.
Mary: And maybe have some of their drink because I love fountain soda
David: Oh man.
David: Sidebar?
Mary: Yes.
David: I was at the Subway on Houston and Mott the other day
David: And I got a $5 footlong and some dude was trying to go get a refill at the fountain soda machine.
David: And the proprietor was like, "No, 50 cents for a refill!"
David: I found that for some reason very, very disturbing.
Mary: You should.
Mary: That's deplorable.
Mary: It's like 3 cents worth of syrup for fuck's sake.
David: I KNOW.
David: They also don't have three types of "meat" in their Cold Cut Combo, but don't get me started.
Mary: Did you know that in Starbucks they won't give you a refill if you've ever stepped outside with your cup?
David: The economy is ruining our fast food.
Mary: I used to just carry the one 20oz cup from sbux to sbux and get refills for a dime.
Mary: I also used to totally want kidney stones obvi.
Mary: ANYWAY. Let's talk about my folly and then move to our favorite thing about D's.
PART FOUR: WE HAVE OTHER THOUGHTS ON DOMINO'S.
David: What other takeaways did we have from our respective Domino's ordering experiences?
Mary: The customer service.
Mary: So I didn't get the two medium, two toppings for $5.99.
Mary: Which was INSANE of me.
David: FOOL.
Mary: I know.
Mary: I got a large, with willy nilly toppings, and spent a fortune, and I got half this, half that.
David: What toppings did you get, and what toppings would you recommend?
Mary: i got pepp on the other side and almost made myself turn into jerky.
Mary: SO salty.
Mary: With olives.
Mary: Almost died.
Mary: I would actually suggest going veggies?
Mary: And I know that's bananas.
Mary: But it's honestly what I'd do. Like olives and onions or some shit. The sodium nitrate bombs are too intense.
Mary: I was parched for days.
David: Well. I DID get the 2 medium 2-toppings for $5.99 each.
Mary: Because you're a champion.
Mary: And good with numbers.
David: And I got one with pepperoni and onion.
David: And the other with sausage and spinach.
Mary: OOOOH spinach!
Mary: I never do that.
David: Both of which were a little salty, but I would RECOMMEND STILL.
Mary: Interesting!
David: That brings us to what I LOVED about my Domino's experience: ORDERING AND USER EXPERIENCE.
David: So, when you order a Domino's online, it's like a video game in which you make your own pizzas!
Mary: Indeed! And it's an incredibly intuitive user experience.
David: They have this pizza that you add toppings and then when you click them they show up on the screen!
Mary: And your half toppings show up too.
David: Even my spinach decision was based on how nice the spinach looked on screen!
David: And I chose not to get black olives for that same reason!
David: It's really incredible.
Mary: And they keep "your Domino's" on file, which is nice.
David: I'm not sure I want people being able to trace that back to me?
David: Never leave a paper trail.
David: SO that's great? But also?
David: They have this thing that let's you TRACK YOUR PIZZA WHILE IT'S GETTING MADE.
David: AND THE PIZZA TRACKER IS UNBELIEVABLE.
Mary: IT IS.
David: Mine told me at what stage of preparation my pizza was in AND who was doing it.
David: LUIS CHECKED MY PIZZA'S QUALITY.
David: SERGIO DELIVERED IT.
David: AND I confirmed with my delivery guy that his name was in fact Sergio!
Mary: YES.
David: Like, isn't this the future?
David: Has the Internet ever been used more effectively
Mary: NO.
Mary: NEVER.
Mary: Not even one time.
David: SORRY, GOOGLE.
Mary: But again, the intuitiveness? There's something so human about being satisfied when a little bar tells you that your pizza has come out of the oven.
Mary: There's nothing worse than having no gauge for when your order will appear.
Mary: Other than "it's been longer than 45 minutes."
Mary: Because whenever you call? They tell you it's on the way. And sometimes? It's just not. And you know it's not!
David: If there was a way that Seamless Web could integrate this into my order of hot wings, it would be UNREAL.
David: A boy can dream I guess.
Mary: I need a little handholding with seamless.
Mary: A little personal touch.
Mary: Like SERGIO.
David: So. Final thoughts?
Mary: We will not be asking for our money back
Mary: Also, I would do this again. Even though their pasta in the bread bowl things make me want to barf.
Mary: ALSO. They do have Coke Zero? Not in fountain yet, but in bottle, and it's good.
David: I'VE HAD THE PIZZA BREAD BOWL!
David: That's a separate chat though.
Mary: Yes it is, you big fucking fatso grossmonster.
David: I AM SVELTE AND ASIAN!
Mary: It's true. With a great head of hair.
David: Oh stop.
Mary: Made of pizza. Can you imagine if they did a hair test on you? "You are 89% preservative."
Mary: Hence: YOUTH.
David: FINAL THOUGHT: ORDER THIS PIZZA PEOPLE, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE!
Mary: Other than so much.
Mary HK Choi is The Awl's first-string dining critic. David Cho is the publisher of The Awl.
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The leading activist group behind healthcare reform, HCAN, is urging Congress to pass real, comprehensive reform.
Health Care for America Now is putting its money where its mouth is. Last week, the nation's largest reform campaign put itself on the side of major labor organizations, and leading members of Congress, saying the way out of the Democrats' health care conundrum is for the House to pass the Senate's legislation, and then pair it with a separate package amending key financing and structural aspects of the bill. This week, they're stepping up their efforts to make sure that happens.
The group has launched a new website to help supporters contact their members of Congress to deliver the following message. ”I need quality, affordable health care, not politics. This is about health care for everyone, not a special election in Massachusetts.”
That process could work, according to what Dem aides on both sides of the Hill told Greg Sargent–House Members can be persuaded to vote for the Senate bill if those fixes are guaranteed.
Senior aides on both sides tell me that despite Nancy Pelosi’s claim that she doesn’t have the votes to pass the Senate health bill in the House, the Dem leadership still thinks it’s possible to win over enough House members to do it — if they’re convinced that fixing it through reconciliation is procedurally realistic.
This gets at an aspect of this whole discussion that’s been lost in the noise. Specifically, there’s good reason for many House Dems to say right now that they can’t vote for the Senate bill, even if it includes a “reconciliation fix”: The leadership has not persuasively made the case — yet — that such a fix can actually work….
“Say you’re a House member who’s worried about his own political stuff,” one senior Senate aide says. “You need to be convinced that, whatever this is, it can work. They’re not gonna get to the point [where they might support it] until they see that piece of paper.”
A senior House aide adds that things could change with that piece of paper, pointing out that leadership wouldn’t be discussing this option if they didn’t remain persuaded that House Dems could still support it in big enough numbers for it to pass.
That “piece of paper” is presumably a pledge from the Senate that there are 50 votes for reconciliation. The actual procedure is probably less of a concern than working out which elements of the reform would need to be in the reconciliation package and it's not clear yet what will fall into that rubric. With the starting point of what had already been decided upon in negotiations pre-Massachusetts, there's a good starting point for an agreement.
If you have a Dem representative or Senator(s), call them, and you can use HCAN's new website to make it easy. Tell them, including your Senator(s), to commit to making reform work through the reconciliation process.
Mary HK Choi: Really quick background question: were you prompted to eat Domino's because of their new ad campaign?
David Cho: Oh for sure, I'd been watching those commercials for the last couple of weeks.
Mary: Me too.
David: They make a really compelling argument!
Mary: Agreed. There's something about contrition that makes me want to throw money at it.
Mary: Was the line "When they said our sauce tasted like ketchup it broke my heart" what got you?
Mary: Because it definitely did me.
David: Not to mention the guarantee.
David: What percentage of people ever actually follow through with something like that, to go to the trouble of saying, "I'M NOT SATISFIED WITH THIS PIZZA, GIMME MY MONEY BACK"?
Mary: So from a business standpoint you respect their G also?
David: Yeah, I just like when brands prey on people's laziness by making promises that seem to mean more than they actually do.
David: Very savvy.
David: I also like 40% more herbs in the sauce.
Mary: Numbers.
David: Numb3rs.
Mary: You love numbers.
David: I LOVE CBS HOUR-LONG DRAMAS!
Mary: GAY.
Mary: Final background question: How often did you eat Domino's before the new formula?
David: Not much really.
David: My fast food pizza allegiance lies with Papa John's.
David: I think I would eat anything covered in that garlic butter.
Mary: Even more so than the mom and pop fold 'em up New York pizza parlors?
David: 95% of the pizza in this city is not as good as Papa John's, based solely on the garlic butter.
Mary: POWERFUL statement. And one I do not totally disagree with.
David: But let me qualify that comment by saying that it's really like comparing apples and oranges.
Mary: Right. Like how Taco Bell is not Mexican food so much as its own food group.
David: But I just say that because a lot of uppity people sleep on Papa John's because they're like, OH I HAVE TO GO TO LUZZO'S OR DI FARA'S OR WTF-EVER.
Mary: Right. We are excluding all pizza parlors you have to wait forever like an asshole for, because that shit is some fetishistic annoying "foodie" shit.
David: I mean I get that it's delicious, but Papa John's has its own charm and delicious-ness too!
Mary: Of course and you and I are lazies so we like when they bring it to us, and bring lots of it.
Mary: With SAUCE!
Mary: So let's talk about the damn pie.
David: I once went to a friend's house 20 blocks away one time because Papa John's doesn't deliver to my neighborhood.
PART ONE: THE SAUCE. 40% MORE HERBS T/F???
Mary: TRUE.
Mary: And by "herbs" I mean, things that make it taste like it has more layers of flavor.
Mary: Because who knows if they are real herbs.
David: YERP
David: It's better though!
David: Right?
David: It tastes more like something!
Mary: BUT.
Mary: More salty? T/F?
David: VERY MUCH MORE SALTY.
Mary: Better for sure.
Mary: And slightly more sweet.
David: YEAH
David: HERE'S A WORD OF ADVICE TO ANYONE WHO'S THINKING OF ORDERING A DOMINO'S PIZZA
Mary: Yes?
David: Do NOT get Italian sausage on it unless you are prepared for a very high level of salty AND sweetness created by the combo of the sausage and sauce.
Mary: YES.
Mary: Which was my folly, for half my pie.
Mary: Let's discuss crust.
Mary: Because we should've worked outside in.
PART TWO: THE CRUST. THOUGHTS?
Mary: David.
Mary: DAVID.
David: Yes, Mary?
Mary: Crust!
Mary: I detected more yellowish butter flavor crystals.
David: You're doing the crust a disservice
David: If you get this new pizza, the crust is THE KEY.
Mary: I agree.
Mary: And it's TASTY with the new sauce.
David: The highest praise I could give this crust is that it tastes like BREAD STIX™.
Mary: This is absolutely accurate.
David: Isn't that what we always want from our pizza crust though?
Mary: Well, you and I do. we've discussed that we prefer this to the "cracker" crust.
Mary: Texturally as well. Good pushback. Toothsome, as it were.
David: JUST LIKE I LIKE MY WOMEN.
David: Which actually isn't true at all.
Mary: I know.
Mary: You like rexi bitches.
David: BE SUBMISSIVE LIKE A GOOD ASIAN LADY KTHXBAI.
Mary: AND THIN THIIIIN.
Mary: Actually not like that second "thin," it's too fat.
David: So final answer: Domino's crust is nothing like girls that I want to date and the one's that your mother wishes you were more like.
Mary: YES. And yellow.
Mary: Question.
David: Yes'm.
Mary: There wasn't however a cheese element to the crust right?
Mary: Because now I am getting confused because the bread stix do.
David: No cheese, all garlic I thought.
David: Buttery and garlicky.
Mary: Agreed.
David: Well, there's two things
David: 1) bread stix.
David: 2) CHEESY stix.
Mary: Right.
David: Yeah, so a bread stick/x can just be with the glaze and the taste.
Mary: OK. Correct. Let's talk dough as a different factor from crust.
David: Not different at all.
David: Which I'm OK with.
David: My pizza palate isn't like the ones of pizza bloggers where they talk about "the hole."
Mary: I thought it was sturdy and good.
David: Yeah, tasted fine.
David: DID NOT BREAK.
Mary: OK. Let's talk cheese.
PART THREE: CHEESE. IS IT DIFFERENT?
David: So the last claim of the Domino's commercial is that they're using higher quality cheese with a blend.
Mary: I thought it was a more complex cheese flavor than the usual white epoxy cheese that they use.
Mary: It didn't taste like, say, a fresh buffalo mozz because that expectation is crazytown.
David: How do you think it compared as an "upgrade" compared to the sauce and crust though?
Mary: I did not think it was as marked an upgrade as crust and sauce.
Mary: BUT also a little saltier.
David: Are you sure that wasn't your sausage or sauce though?
Mary: The one thing I did notice was there was less cheese.
Mary: But I ordered mine in Los Angeles.
David: Really? Mine had a TON of cheese.
David: My roommate commented that it was almost "too cheesy"
Mary: Mischief's afoot.
Mary: I always pick off all the cheese.
Mary: Rearrange all the fixin's.
Mary: And then redistribute the cheese.
Mary: But in LA I did not have to.
David: So I guess the takeaway is don't order pizza from Domino's in LA?
Mary: Also, you're right. I have no idea about sausage saltiness as a factor for the cheese. Because that sausage salt cauterized my tongue into one giant pulsing tastebud.
David: Wait, do you do that with pizza here?
David: Like you go to a pizza place and rearrange the pizza to your likings?
Mary: Yes.
Mary: All the time.
David: Oh gosh.
David: Your hands must get GROSS.
Mary: Well sure.
Mary: But I am a disgusting eating partner.
Mary: At least, I blot and then redistribute.
David: So high maint.
Mary: And then I start wheedling whoever I'm with for their crust before anyone has gotten there.
Mary: And maybe have some of their drink because I love fountain soda
David: Oh man.
David: Sidebar?
Mary: Yes.
David: I was at the Subway on Houston and Mott the other day
David: And I got a $5 footlong and some dude was trying to go get a refill at the fountain soda machine.
David: And the proprietor was like, "No, 50 cents for a refill!"
David: I found that for some reason very, very disturbing.
Mary: You should.
Mary: That's deplorable.
Mary: It's like 3 cents worth of syrup for fuck's sake.
David: I KNOW.
David: They also don't have three types of "meat" in their Cold Cut Combo, but don't get me started.
Mary: Did you know that in Starbucks they won't give you a refill if you've ever stepped outside with your cup?
David: The economy is ruining our fast food.
Mary: I used to just carry the one 20oz cup from sbux to sbux and get refills for a dime.
Mary: I also used to totally want kidney stones obvi.
Mary: ANYWAY. Let's talk about my folly and then move to our favorite thing about D's.
PART FOUR: WE HAVE OTHER THOUGHTS ON DOMINO'S.
David: What other takeaways did we have from our respective Domino's ordering experiences?
Mary: The customer service.
Mary: So I didn't get the two medium, two toppings for $5.99.
Mary: Which was INSANE of me.
David: FOOL.
Mary: I know.
Mary: I got a large, with willy nilly toppings, and spent a fortune, and I got half this, half that.
David: What toppings did you get, and what toppings would you recommend?
Mary: i got pepp on the other side and almost made myself turn into jerky.
Mary: SO salty.
Mary: With olives.
Mary: Almost died.
Mary: I would actually suggest going veggies?
Mary: And I know that's bananas.
Mary: But it's honestly what I'd do. Like olives and onions or some shit. The sodium nitrate bombs are too intense.
Mary: I was parched for days.
David: Well. I DID get the 2 medium 2-toppings for $5.99 each.
Mary: Because you're a champion.
Mary: And good with numbers.
David: And I got one with pepperoni and onion.
David: And the other with sausage and spinach.
Mary: OOOOH spinach!
Mary: I never do that.
David: Both of which were a little salty, but I would RECOMMEND STILL.
Mary: Interesting!
David: That brings us to what I LOVED about my Domino's experience: ORDERING AND USER EXPERIENCE.
David: So, when you order a Domino's online, it's like a video game in which you make your own pizzas!
Mary: Indeed! And it's an incredibly intuitive user experience.
David: They have this pizza that you add toppings and then when you click them they show up on the screen!
Mary: And your half toppings show up too.
David: Even my spinach decision was based on how nice the spinach looked on screen!
David: And I chose not to get black olives for that same reason!
David: It's really incredible.
Mary: And they keep "your Domino's" on file, which is nice.
David: I'm not sure I want people being able to trace that back to me?
David: Never leave a paper trail.
David: SO that's great? But also?
David: They have this thing that let's you TRACK YOUR PIZZA WHILE IT'S GETTING MADE.
David: AND THE PIZZA TRACKER IS UNBELIEVABLE.
Mary: IT IS.
David: Mine told me at what stage of preparation my pizza was in AND who was doing it.
David: LUIS CHECKED MY PIZZA'S QUALITY.
David: SERGIO DELIVERED IT.
David: AND I confirmed with my delivery guy that his name was in fact Sergio!
Mary: YES.
David: Like, isn't this the future?
David: Has the Internet ever been used more effectively
Mary: NO.
Mary: NEVER.
Mary: Not even one time.
David: SORRY, GOOGLE.
Mary: But again, the intuitiveness? There's something so human about being satisfied when a little bar tells you that your pizza has come out of the oven.
Mary: There's nothing worse than having no gauge for when your order will appear.
Mary: Other than "it's been longer than 45 minutes."
Mary: Because whenever you call? They tell you it's on the way. And sometimes? It's just not. And you know it's not!
David: If there was a way that Seamless Web could integrate this into my order of hot wings, it would be UNREAL.
David: A boy can dream I guess.
Mary: I need a little handholding with seamless.
Mary: A little personal touch.
Mary: Like SERGIO.
David: So. Final thoughts?
Mary: We will not be asking for our money back
Mary: Also, I would do this again. Even though their pasta in the bread bowl things make me want to barf.
Mary: ALSO. They do have Coke Zero? Not in fountain yet, but in bottle, and it's good.
David: I'VE HAD THE PIZZA BREAD BOWL!
David: That's a separate chat though.
Mary: Yes it is, you big fucking fatso grossmonster.
David: I AM SVELTE AND ASIAN!
Mary: It's true. With a great head of hair.
David: Oh stop.
Mary: Made of pizza. Can you imagine if they did a hair test on you? "You are 89% preservative."
Mary: Hence: YOUTH.
David: FINAL THOUGHT: ORDER THIS PIZZA PEOPLE, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO LOSE!
Mary: Other than so much.
Mary HK Choi is The Awl's first-string dining critic. David Cho is the publisher of The Awl.
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