Don Bauder's Blog

Columnist
San Diego Reader

While attending the University of Wisconsin, Don Bauder held a number of posts at the campus newspaper, including editor in chief. He received a bachelor's degree in business (1959) and a master's in journalism (1961) and then spent four years in advertising and PR. In 1964, he joined the Chicago bureau of Business Week magazine as reporter/writer. In 1966, he got the job as bureau chief in Cleveland. Don left Cleveland in 1973 to become financial editor and columnist for the San Diego Union. When the Union and Tribune merged in the early 1990s, he remained at that post; in '95, he was named senior columnist at the Union-Tribune. He retired from the U-T in March of 2003 and began writing his weekly column for the Reader in April of 2003. In 1985-1986, Don wrote Captain Money and the Golden Girl (a book about a local Ponzi scheme), which stayed on the L.A. Times best-seller list for more than two months. He's been married for 50 years and has two sons and a grandson.

Almost 40% of Households Can’t Afford San Diego

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A new study released March 6, reveals that 38% of San Diego County's working-age households can't afford a no-frills lifestyle without public or private assistance.

Utilities Battle the Inevitable: Rooftop Solar

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A pitched battle is raging on California rooftops. On one side are the state’s major electric utilities — San Diego Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison, and Pacific Gas & Electric.

Bubbles: Greenspan, Bernanke Could Have Learned Something in San Diego

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Since early 2009, the American stock market has more than doubled while the economy has crawled up by about 2 percent. Bad economic news is good market news. Sequester? Stocks zoomed right past it.

Smarter Cities Richer

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New census bureau data show the direct link between percentage of bachelor’s degrees and median income in urban areas.

Wall Street's High Speed Gamble

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When I was in first grade, the school janitor asked what my father did for a living. I said he was a stockbroker. He said, “Oh, one of those gamblers.” I cried all the way home and told my mother what the janitor had said. She couldn’t stifle a laugh.

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