John Oliver rather brilliantly explains American wealth and how it is compounded by the estate tax here . He misses one little point though,...

There has been some good economic news of late. And yet, Americans still don't have much confidence in the economy. This week we got som...

You've likely heard by now that GDP grew by 4% in the 2nd Quarter. Here are some other intriguing things about the Commerce Department...

Fascinating interview of Jung posted here at Maria Popova's brilliant site. Here are a few excerpts that stood out to me. JUNG:  ...

Correlation between CEO pay and company performance is weak. This chart from Eric Chemi and Ariana Giorgi plots CEO pay ranked from low t...

There is still not much evidence of systems thinking in education. Systems thinking lends itself to some fancy talk but really is just an ...

In 1899, a carpenter made about 50 cents an hour, so this payphone would have cost the equivalent of $22 a minute today.

The Congressional Budget Office is now projecting the 2014 fiscal deficit to be 2.8% of GDP  this year, sharply down from original estimates...

Novels and movies would not work if our emotional reality were not separate from our sense of what is real or fiction. We may know that we...

Perhaps the biggest difference between World Cup Finalists Argentina and Germany is in the gap between the rich and poor. Measuring it by th...

Here's an odd relic from 1982. Mail order apocrypha .  It plays to the worst fears of certain people, the sort of thing that w...

The Supreme Court just ruled that you can't stop someone from telling lies about you or your policies during a campaign. Lies are a for...

It feels like a cultural arms race. Gay rights activists push for the legalization of same-sex marriage. The religious right pushes to close...

Measured as uninterrupted months of job creation, this recovery is on track to set a new record. Uniquely, just as past recessions were falt...

Tomorrow's job numbers should come in at about 300,000, give or take tens of thousands. (Okay, Maybe give or take a hundred thousand.) ...

Belgium's Kevin de Bruyne scored the first goal in today's match between USA and Belgium. In spite of the fact that Los Angeles metr...

The US was founded by Protestants. For the first time in this country's history, there is not a single Protestant on the Supreme Court. ...

Today the Supreme Court ruled that a privately held company can refuse to finance contraceptives they object to on religious grounds. The Ho...

Pew unveiled some interesting data about the American polity. To me the most fascinating thing is data illustrating the difference between l...

It's time for management to focus on focus. I’ve often wondered what would happen if a power outage or Internet outage were to sudd...