The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) launched a Google Earth mash-up map earlier this month to show alternative energy installers where they might run into trouble with legal restrictions or endangered wildlife advocates. ...READ»
Wind power may be one of the most important alternative energies in the United States, but it's useless if we don't have transmission lines to transport the energy from wind-rich rural areas in the Midwest to cities with large ...READ»
Banks have gotten a bad rap recently, and for good reason. The FDIC's Failed Bank List is rife with private banks that have been flattened in the past two years, and we all know about the myriad bankrupt investment banks. But now ...READ»
The Global Innovation Index, a ranking of 130 countries released yesterday, calls the US the world's number one innovator. The index was created by Soumitra Dutta, a professor at French business school INSEAD, along with New Delhi ...READ»
Today America chooses a new president in what is one of the most pivotal elections in history. The world changed sharply during the Bush administration with two recessions, 9/11 attacks, wars in the Middle East, and rising new ...READ»
Hyperventilating observors keep talking about the current economic crisis in terms of a crisis of capitalism. This is a bizarre overreaction. And yet, aren't you asking the same question yourself?
There are many logical ...READ»
"Economics is as close to psychohistory as you can get."
-- Paul Krugman "Incidents from My Career"
This year's winner of the Nobel prize in economics is one of the finest scholars in the field, ...READ»
The latest GDP figures from the federal government show a 2.8 percent annualized growth (found here). Unfortunately, this may be the last positive figure we see for a while, so it might be worth examining the details. Below is a ...READ»