Economy 4.0

Not that Cuba. The Cuba a couple of hours west of St. Louis on old Route 66. I visited there on a Marketplace assignment precisely ten years ago....

I discovered a statistical oddity playing around with a set of interactive maps about well-being in America. Click the map and you can get a hand...

You are thinking door-buster sales on Thanksgiving Friday. Perhaps you are following predictions about same-store sales. In parts of our nation's...

There is word that Britain's center-right coalition government wants to make the happiness and well-being of the British public part of the...

It is one thing when a newbie politician like incoming Kentucky Senator Rand Paul calls for a return to the gold standard. It is more of a shock ...

A Big Mac can do much more than satiate our appetite for burgers that require three pieces of bread: it can give us a lens through which to compa...

Occam's Razor is the principle that the simplest explanation is tends to be the best. When it comes to measuring severe deprivation around the wo...

Want to see just how half-empty your country's economic glass is? It's as simple as calculating the Misery Index....

Elizabeth Warren is the guiding force behind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau - now under construction in Washington. This week, she shar...

Kathy Johnson is a small business person in New Hampshire I got to meet covering my story about the trend toward putting financial services onlin...