October 19, 2018
With marijuana legalization, Canada has had to revise 60 years of its Gross National Product (GDP) to avoid misleading numbers.
October 18, 2018
#TBT: Today's Throwback Thursday looks back at Chase Bank and ahead to American Airlines to see how corporate logos have changed.
October 17, 2018
The new World Bank Human Capital Index was created to encourage the leaders of 157 countries to improve their healthcare and education.
October 14, 2018
Doing an iPhone teardown for the XS Max, we see the cost of the components and the suppliers that extend around the world.
October 13, 2018
Connecting economics, current events, and history, our weekly economic news roundup ranges from Nobel trivia and when we're creative to the price of light.
October 12, 2018
Friday's e-links: Today we link to a good fictitious read about Edison and Tesla and an album with 27 Constitutional Amendments interpreted by 27 musicians.
October 12, 2018
Sort of like the licensing exams required by government for certain professions, the wine industry also determines the credentials of its master sommeliers.
October 11, 2018
Looking at William Nordhaus's study of lighting history, we can see how increasingly cheaper illumination boosted our living standards.
October 10, 2018
While the data for scientists and artists can indicate the age of our peak creativity, a close look reveals that it is much more complicated.
October 9, 2018
First awarded more than 70 years after the original Nobel Prizes began, the Nobel Economics Prize is worth some unexpected extras.
October 8, 2018
Whether about cows or chicken nuggets, sometimes seemingly insignificant new food technology can have an unexpectedly massive impact.
October 7, 2018
When one bottle of single malt Macallan whisky sells for more than $1 million, we can ask if it was superior taste or some other reason.