We talk a lot about the standard fare of economic data on this site; employment data always steals the show but there are many other data points with great importance. And then there are even more obscure economic reports that provide much more detail than the average user would really care to have. On another [...]

Technology played the biggest role it has ever had in an American civilian incident. Gizmodo highlights some of the tech including bomb-defusing robots and infrared cameras. Perhaps most useful have been all the cameras that captured these suspects. Security cameras at department stores, smartphones, and the mapping tools of Google, Apple, and Microsoft. Twitter and [...]

Instead of one story today, I want to point at three with a common theme. They all deal with stuff we know to be occurring, but we either don’t understand it or can’t see it happening. These hidden aspects of our world play a very big role in how the world we can see works. [...]

We probably don’t like to think of ourselves as customers but even at hospitals that’s exactly what we are. Hospitals don’t have menus or even sale signs so the end customer really doesn’t know how much they’re paying for services. New research is shedding the light on how all that works. Customers are starting to [...]

Some interesting research highlights things we thought were doing right. As usualy we got it wrong. 1) We Eat Too Much After Exercising There’s nothing like a good workout! Burn some calories, get the heart rate up, and maybe even some fresh air. As the population leaves factories and farms for offices and cubicles the [...]

Yesterday, we looked at some of the new employment trends for 2013 as a result of Obamacare. Some employers are choosing to keep their full time staff right at 49 people to avoid having to offer health insurance or pay fines. Others are playing with the number of part time staff to avoid hitting the [...]

This time of year many websites and bloggers like to go back through their posts and determine which ones were the best of the bunch. I like to think that most of my writing is pretty terrible and if you wanted to read something you already would have. So instead we’re going to look at [...]

Yeah, so your holiday has either happened or it’s probably too late to change gifts which means it’s the perfect time for a gift list from Weakonomics. It’s neither useful, nor helpful. So enjoy: Utilikey: One of my favorite tools for anyone out there. Great for opening plastic packaging, boxes with too much tape, and [...]