The Dunbar Number is 150. It is an estimate of the number of people one might have in a social circle. If we go back 150 lifetimes - assumin...

The Biden presidency is setting a bar for economic performance that has never before been hit and is unlikely to be matched again. This is n...

In 1861, March 4, Lincoln was inaugurated for his 1st term as president April 12, Confederates fired on Fort Sumter, officially beginning th...

It was the British and Dutch who became the wealthiest communities in the world by pioneering globalization. BREXIT was a decisive vote to w...

One of the most underreported facts of the modern world is simply this: communities that know how to create great paying jobs overwhelmingly...

Imagine a map with all its neat lines and borders, like a giant puzzle where each piece is a different country, clearly marked and separate....

Trump began selling Bibles this week to raise money for his trial for using campaign funds to pay for sex with a porn star. There is nothing...

Daniel Kahneman died this week. He won a Noble Prize in Economics made remarkable by the fact that not only did he not have a degree in econ...

Benjamin Franklin was involved with two great shifts in power: the creation of the world's first modern democracy and experiments that ...

Here's a money-saving tip. Next time you see an ad for an enticing product, just re-enact the ad. Skip the product altogether and go st...

Once upon a time, the first draft of history - our newspaper articles that let us know each day about what was happening - was written by as...

Physico-theology, an idea that gained prominence in the 17th and 18th centuries, refers to a theological doctrine that seeks to demonstrate ...

Trump warned that if he is not elected there will be a bloodbath. A clear threat to again resort to violence as when he lost in 2020. Later ...

At today's market close, the 50 most valuable companies around the world had a combined market cap of $27.9 trillion. Portion of total f...

Those of you who find this kind of thing interesting might find this fascinating. What is good? A negative number. It shows that the unemplo...

4 years ago today ... President Trump declared a national emergency in response to coronavirus on March 13, 2020, to provide emergency fundi...

Trump is the first president to use the words bleed, carnage, stolen, tombstones, and trapped in an inaugural address, a man who tried to ov...

A simple - possibly flawed - explanation for Trump's appeal: when people are frustrated with institutions they turn to a tyrant to blow ...

On average, you get a wage hike for switching jobs. August of 2022, though, offered by the far largest premium for switching jobs, an avera...

Real GDP growth in 2023 was 3.1%. The three years with highest real GDP growth in the last 19 years: 2021: 5.8% 2005: 3.5% 2023: 3.1% In sim...