Of all the curious news items reported in any given week, it's hard to imagine one more fascinating than the Pope's mention of a ...

I've wondered about empathy in this country of fierce individualism. Elizabeth Cady Stanton gave this really fascinating speech in 1892 ...

In the 40 years that Gallup has been tracking confidence in institutions (e.g. the military, the presidency, small business, big business .....

The ratio of CEO pay to that of average worker is considerably higher than it is in Europe.  By various estimates , CEO pay in the US is bet...

The other day, my wife read her 2nd grade class a story about a dog who could not resist temptation. At the end, she told them that it was n...

The Kauffman Foundation may be doing as much as anyone to popularize the ideas and importance of entrepreneurship. Here's a great video ...

Dancers might expend more energy than someone walking to market, but at the end of the dance they’re usually right where they started. ...

"We are always living far ahead of our thinking." - Marshall McLuhan We still think about banks as if they were bank...

My cousin lived in the Pacific Islands for a time. He told me that privacy was a gift in that environment. The little huts were built in a c...

The other day I met an interesting fellow. At one point he was arguing that CEOs earned their pay because it was their job to articulate a v...

My daughter casually mentioned that if fertility is a measure of success, the elites aren't doing so well. Birthrates are lower for weal...

Lawrence Wright wrote a fascinating account of L. Ron Hubbard and the Church of Scientology with his book Going Clear . Given Scientology ha...

A poignant  blog post  went up about a month ago. It reads: I was surprised to read in today’s  Washington Post  that SAIC has  decided...

Consumption is back - and GDP has no bigger component. Government spending, exports, and investment are all small by comparison to consumpt...

The high temps for Saturdays this year in San Diego, from January 5 to yesterday. Average 69 Median 70 Max 84 Min 54 ...

It is funny how the most obvious things have turned into arguments. It seems as though there are no claims to be made in economics, for inst...

Ron Johnson was briefly head of JC Penney. Hired in November 2011, he was fired in April of 2013. Less than a year and a half.  Now regula...

Early stage entrepreneurship levels are at their highest levels since at least 1999. Professors from Babson and Baruch Colleges have jus...

If I remember correctly, when Richard Dawkins coined the term "meme" he was not thinking about Facebook. Dawkins was trying to fin...

People have been fired. Mike Huckabee predicts that Obama won't complete his second term. At a minimum, Bloomberg Businessweek predicts,...