Exactly one year ago, the media was alarmed at the prospect of an Ebola outbreak here in the US. One of the many reasons for this alarm is t...

After spending 22 of 44 days traveling, trips that included the Netherlands and Belgium, D.C. and Orange County, business, tourism and seein...

I would have loved to be there when they first dreamed up rebates. "How are we going to price this?" "We can sell it for $1...

In a parallel universe .... For reasons too convoluted to recap, the KKK had captured the attention of Northern Europeans who were appalle...

At fivethirtyeight, Ben Casselman asks what may prove this election's most important question: The Economy is Better - Why Don't Vot...

There are two dimensions to a politician. One is her politics and the other is her policies. The ratio of those two determines whether she i...

  What  new ideas  did we bring? I always give a one-word answer:  arithmetic . - Bill Clinton, only president since 1949 to preside over a...

At 5%, unemployment is now exactly half of what it was exactly 6 years ago at the very peak of the Great Recession. That is cause for celebr...

Here are interesting statistics that compare stock market performance under Democrat and Republican presidents. This is hugely simplistic...

The stream of refugees coming into Europe could be the boost it needs. In 2003, the average age in Europe was about 37 years. By 2050, s...

The liberal media (and us liberals) like to point out how Republicans can be irrational. In the this GOP primary, they're disproving tha...

Talking with a conservative friend the other day, he mentioned how unrealistic it was to think that the federal government can continue to b...

The Republicans in Wednesday's debate turned on the moderators, largely refusing to answer any question they found uncomfortable. Their ...

It says volumes about the current state of the Republican Party that Donald Trump's simple statement of fact about George W. Bush being ...

There is a very different bar for "would you marry this man?" and "I do!" The list of people we might consider as spouse...

If we legalized bombs and every time a crazy person detonated a bomb it killed 200 people, we wouldn't say that we've never had more...

After World War II, procreation resumed. The men who'd been shipped off to Europe and Asia came back and started families. Their childre...

US corporations are holding more cash than ever. In 1980, they held nearly $500 billion. By 2011, they were holding nearly $5 trillion. [St....

Many analysts were disappointed in the jobs report today. The forecast - based on ADP's Wednesday report - was for 200,000. Not only did...

In The Fourth Economy , I argue that capital no longer limits. We now have trillions in capital and unsurprisingly, returns to capital have ...