The economy is in the best position it's been for all of this century. Households have paid down debt and increased wealth, now positi...

Here are some graphs and a couple of tables to compare this decade and administration with those of the last few decades. This first graph...

Tomorrow's job report will probably extend the streak of months with uninterrupted job growth to 44, placing it 3rd among recorded strea...

In 2010 R esidential mortgages were $11 trillion , down $700 billion from the previous year. C onsumer credit was $2.5 trillion , down $...

You don't have to be 47 to see that this song is relevant but I'm sure it helps. Plus there is the added charm of a band crowded i...

Gallup asked students about their levels of support and deep learning during college. These factors - from feeling supported by a prof...

About the time the US went from silent movies to talkies, presidents seemingly stopped talking and became images instead of leaders who prov...

One reason that women migrate into cities is because they are more free to create their own lifestyle. At the extreme, you can think of the ...

Superman explains to young Timmy that the reason he has changed from using phone booths to using photo booths is because it's now abou...

I used to work for Covey Leadership Center. Stephen Covey liked lighthouses. For him they were a symbol of stability. The lighthouse would f...

Global financial assets are well over $200 trillion , doubling every decade since 1990. In 1990, total debt and equity outstanding was $50-s...

Systems have characteristics that their parts do not. This emergent phenomenon defines them. Your car got you to work today. None of its par...

Gallup tracks happiness in the US. It doesn't seem to be moving in any particular direction but there is a lot of movement. To me it lo...

The good news is that the number of startups is rebounding to where it was in the late 1990s. The bad news is that because of economic chan...

Politically, counties are becoming more sharply divided. Between 1976 and 2008, the percentage of counties where the Republican or Democrati...

The folks at  Public Policy Polling asked Americans about conspiracy theories . As it turns out we like them. And curiously, folks who voted...

Before looking at the following graph, keep in mind that the Catholic Church has been around about 1,700 years. Had the church lost just 6 p...

There's a fascinating study on cooperation that has been done around the world. I think it reveals why Elizabeth Warren - a policy maker...

Imagine generations ago, a member of a tribe realized that praying to the god of irrigation didn't make any difference but actually digg...

Imagine that you put $1,000 into a savings account that paid 1% a month. (An obviously fictional example.) At the end of month one, you...