After the USSR collapsed, a lot of American business people and economists went to Russia to help. My own impression was that the American b...

Republicans: I'd like to borrow the country. Democrats: Again? It didn't turn out so well last time when you borrowed it. R: As if...

A guy seeing your frustration with a coin that seems to often come up "tails!" offers to get rid of the tails of your coin. ...

Ricardo Semler was the first CEO I'd heard of to have half a dozen folks working side by side on a factory floor, each with different ar...

I have a co-worker who I quite enjoy. We are in exactly the same position in a very small company, similar in our love of absurd humor and o...

Regular readers of R World know that I've been arguing that first half of 2010s would bring unemployment to healthy levels and this seco...

Trump affirmed tonight that he really, really likes Putin. Putin has invaded countries and killed reporters and political opponents ("W...

After Joseph was sold into Egypt, Pharaoh had a dream he wanted interpreted. The catch? He was bothered by the dream but couldn't rememb...

$10 trillion around the globe is now invested in negative interest rate bonds. Investors are actually paying countries to keep their money,...

More than once conservative friends have told me that there is no real difference between Trump and Clinton. To test that hypothesis, consid...

Couldn't a lot of this casino owner's campaign behavior be explained by a series of drunken double or nothing bets with other billio...

Trump is against free trade, big corporations, and military intervention. He's even contemptuous of the military, both the judgment of g...

Trump makes two kinds of statements, both with great confidence. The one kind can immediately be proven false (this from ABC ): The othe...

From Datacalysm  by Christian Rudder: On OkCupid, one of the easiest ways to compare a black person and a white person (or any two people ...

During the first market economy of roughly 1300 to 1700, desire had to be made legitimate. This was one important reason that church refo...

Some Sanders supporters don't see the difference between Trump and Clinton. Remember the Nader supporters who didn't see the differe...

This week there's a big scandal because hackers - most likely Russia the FBI says - have revealed private emails from within the Democra...

If Americans are frightened by Trump's oratory, Trump will win. What are they afraid of in his eyes? Crime, illegal immigration, and the...

On occasion, we stumble across something so elegant that it makes us stop. We suddenly see order in what we once thought of as random activi...

Reza Aslan, in his book on Islam, is just one of many writers to claim that in cultures that have an oral tradition, with people who don...