September 22, 2017
September 20, 2017
With its newest and priciest product launch, Apple has made iPhone conspicuous consumption the reason to buy their phone.
September 19, 2017
With a Vanguard S&P Index fund competing against a group of hedge funds, a decade-long Warren Buffett bet for $1 million has just ended.
September 17, 2017
Used in ice cream, India's guar gum is also so necessary for fracking that the rise of oil prices created a guar bean bubble.
September 15, 2017
To hear a single-use plastic bag regulation debate, you could go to Kenya or NYC while Rwandans might be discussing their plastic bag black market.
September 14, 2017
Swinging from hyperinflation to deflation, the value of Zimbabwe currency has created uncertainty for more than a decade.
September 11, 2017
We can ask why our lottery ticket spending has been $70 billion annually when we have such an infinitesimal chance of winning.
September 10, 2017
Including celery and pineapples, past and present culinary status symbols are examples of foods preferred by an elite group.
September 8, 2017
September 7, 2017
In New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C., public spaces under-represent women's past leadership through too few female monuments.
September 4, 2017
While a diplomat negotiates a treaty and a singer records music, few of us recognize the invisible labor that made their work possible.
September 3, 2017
Sometimes invisible, the Southwest Effect has influenced air fares and air traffic since the 1970s when Southwest was a small Texas carrier.