March 25, 2015
To fuel French economic growth, productivity and employment, a controversial law will allow more Sunday shopping but the business/leisure debate continues.
March 24, 2015
Whether looking at what fans spend and wager or the NCAA, the coaches, the teams, the media, and corporate promotions, March Madness is about big business.
March 23, 2015
More than its low labor costs, Mexico is attracting car manufacturers away from the U.S. because it has free trade agreements with more than 40 countries.
March 20, 2015
Related to customization, sharing, software dominance, job losses, and ripples of disrupting the status quo, the driverless car is an innovation prototype.
March 18, 2015
A competitive strategy, planned obsolescence is controversial. It can spur innovation and growth or represent corporate waste and consumer manipulation.
March 17, 2015
NOAA's high impact snowstorm ranks relate to economic growth through municipal snow removal costs, closed businesses, and the supply chains that halted.
March 15, 2015
Looking at routes, aircraft size and the types of travelers, you can see the tradeoffs airlines make when they decide which flights will be canceled.
March 13, 2015
To improve policy making for major global issues like health, population, education and poverty, Hans Rosling uses a survey to see where we are misinformed.
March 11, 2015
Hearing the unemployment rate and jobs creation numbers, we should know the numbers weren't real because the BLS seasonally adjusted them.
March 10, 2015
The U.S Postal Service is a productivity dilemma because it provides necessary services but, shown by its trucks, is not as efficient as the private sector.
March 9, 2015
For their innovation, association with telephone development, their Dow slot and perhaps creative destruction, Apple and AT&T have followed parallel paths.
March 8, 2015
Always controversial, the idea of daylight saving time started with railroads standardizing time and continued with a Congressional mandate.