December 21, 2018
Ranging from sock puppets in 2000 to the spread of the automobile in the 1920s, the causes of market bubbles are different and yet similar.
November 14, 2018
The six facts that summarize world debt identify the big borrowers, the risky borrowers, and the criteria for deciding how much to worry.
August 3, 2018
Rather like Apple just became the first trillion dollar corporation, in 1901 U.S. Steel took us past the billion dollar threshold.
July 1, 2018
Whether looking at the nineteenth century or now, Wall Street has always had fast traders who knew how to get the news before their competitors.
June 25, 2018
When the digits that appear frequently in national accounting figures, spreadsheets, and earnings reports are missing, then we can say we have suspicious numbers.
June 21, 2018
#TBT: With General Electric leaving the Dow Industrial Average, today is a perfect time to look back at Charles Dow, Eddie Jones, and the Dow that GE joined in 1896.
June 19, 2018
Asking if bitcoin is a security, a commodity, money, or property, we get a list of different answers that lead us to regulatory questions.
May 25, 2018
As Greek bailout talks continue, European monetary officials are also concerned that a Greek statistician could receive a life sentence for reporting accurate macroeconomic statistics.
April 20, 2018
April 8, 2018
Looking at voting preferences, researchers uncovered a surprising change in attitudes about Israeli/Palestinian conflict resolution from new investors.
February 9, 2018
Whether looking at 1637 or 2000, markets and financial bubbles always seem to find each other. As a surge in demand pushes prices up, the result resembles a bubble because it is full of air rather than value.
December 31, 2017
Our banana, $450 million painting, and Tesla tax stories were just so interesting that they deserved fascinating follow-ups.