The roots of conservatives' disdain for the French date back to the 1800 election between Jefferson and Adams. That election took pl...

As I commute to and from my current client, I drive under an overpass where a truck and trailer is parked with the message, "Jesus is ...

The lower your income, the more likely you are to think of gold as a good investment. From http://www.gallup.com/poll/168554/america...

There is a fascinating book review by Jeff Madrick that undermines so many of the casually inaccurate claims made by libertarians in the co...

The Kauffman Foundation just released a report on Entrepreneurship that, among other things, gives the rate at which people in each state h...

The economy is recovering but we've yet to feel a wave of optimism sweep across the country. The two biggest reasons are that the 2000s ...

Tomorrow the Bureau of Labor Statistics unveils their job numbers for March, reporting job creation and the unemployment rate. My prediction...

Bernard was excited, which delighted me. I knew that his eyes lit up like that only when he'd been seized by a new idea he wanted to sha...

It's Sunday night. That seems reason enough to post a poem. “Any fool can get into an ocean . . .” BY  JACK SPICER  1925–1965 ...

In most EU countries, the majority of people report that their government makes it hard to start a business.   Sadly for them, this matter o...

Up until 1998, Republicans and Democrats were equally likely to believe that climate change resulted from human activity and was already hav...

Gallup tracks job creation in the US , posting a three-day running average. Its posted values go back six years. Here is a graph that plots ...

Years ago I briefly hosted a "Celtic Folk for Celtic Folk and Other Folk" Show. On the basis of that and an enduring fondness for ...

In the wake of the Great Depression, the US began to measure GDP. Simon Kuznets, in 1937, presented his formulation of gross domestic produc...

President Obama and his economic advisers have just released their annual report. It offers good news for this year and sobering news about...

The average downturn since World War II Jobs Lost: 2 million Months to regain lost jobs: 10 Length of Recovery: 59 months Ratio of Jobs ...

From marriage to religion to politics, millennials are less likely to identify with institutions of any kind than are previous generations. ...

Today, Sir Richard Branson wrote an interesting piece in which he sided with Apple CEO Tim Cook. Conservative stockholders have recently cr...

This decade could be really messy. Already countries like Iraq, Syria, and the Ukraine are making headlines as forces within the country str...