While the traffic congestion problem in NYC, LA and D.C. wastes huge time and money, they do not appear to want to solve it.
While it is relatively easy to measure how much alcohol consumption varies among countries, identifying a direct economic impact is much tougher.
Whereas we know the size of an inch and a mile, standardized dress sizes were developed and then abandoned in the United States.
Covering 500 or so miles, a made-in-America t-shirt supply chain can be very different from a globally sourced t-shirt that travels more than 15,000 miles.
While it can be tough to decide who owns a meteorite, in China and the U.S., those "intergalactic" property rights matter since they determine who profits.
When ranking national healthcare, organizations use statistics that can be misleading because they are based on averages that include irrelevant data.
Deciding whether Snuggies is a blanket or a pullover garment is about more than a name. The outcome decided the protective tariff it would owe.
Judging the Trump blueprint for the federal budget, we need to figure out how to compare trillion dollar totals to billion dollar proposals.
Like Uber and Airbnb, the growing popularity of Eat With Stranger Apps (EWSAs) is creating sharing economy dilemmas that relate to regulation.
We cannot avoid unintended consequences from healthcare legislation because healthcare spending has no "one-size-fits-all" solution.












