Non-partisan legislative analysts are forecasting budget surpluses for the state of California on the order of $234 million for this year, ...

Gallup tracks the daily spending of Americans in real-time polls. Here's a graph of the 3-day and 14-day rolling averages leading up ...

Nobody ever asks "Why would you want to travel?" or "Why would you want to walk along the beach to watch a beautiful sunset?...

Steve Ballmer steps down as CEO of Microsoft in 2014. It's a perfect opportunity for the company to change their managerial operating s...

I don't mind the NSA having special powers to collect data, powers that could be abused. The police and army also have special powers ...

Andrew Marr engages Clive James in a wonderful conversation this week. Here's an excerpt. Andrew Marr: You use this phrase, "th...

Rose George writes about a world that hardly anyone sees that provides us goods that everyone uses. In her book Ninety Percent of Everythi...

In early March, Rworld posted this : Economists were incredibly aligned on their 2013 forecast,  which is ridiculous given the amount of ...

Economy Market found or created Start 1st, Agricultural Market created for goods made by individuals ~1300 ...

A friend posted this odd juxtaposition of Gun Show ad and article about a school shooting today. I think the more relevant juxtaposition...

Sainte-Chapelle in Paris is only a short distance from Notre Dame. This Gothic Cathedral was commissioned by King Louis IX to house relics ...

I quite like desert island discs on BBC . Kirsty Young is a brilliant and emotionally attuned interviewer and additionally there is somethin...

Judith Innes and David Booher open their book Planning with Complexity with an account of a water situation. In Sacramento, CA, the popula...

Depending on how you measure it, this is the best year for job creation in 8 to 30 years. That bodes well for 2014. Measured by job creati...

Media stereotypes can be comically wrong. Republicans have the image of being more warlike but Democrats start wars more often.  Reagan has ...

The kids in my wife's class - 2nd graders who are - most of them - 7 - have been worried about me since my dad died Thursday. Today she ...

A few items to add to my bucket list. Take up golf? Maybe get a pet? ...

The Dow is up 101% since Barack Obama was sworn in. Most people are unaware of how much better the stock market does under Democrats than ...

The problem with texting 2.0 is that it is direct. It goes directly to the person to whom you're sending it. Texting 1.0 - known at the ...

It is the oddity of the times that the deficit has become something real and kids in poverty have become an abstraction. Puzzling that ever...