Linking economics, current events and history, our weekly economic news roundup includes a good banking law, Japan's population problems, and sleep insight.
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.
At 8 am or earlier, the average high school start time could diminish adolescent math and reading cognition because of sleep deprivation.
The fiscal challenges that Japan's shrinking population has created come from a shrinking birth rate and an aging population.
Precise numbers can become misleading statistics when politicians, journalists and scholars use them for jobs projections and GDP totals.
As our first Throwback Thursday, we look at the present and the past with the 2,000 barrel beer tanks that traveled on the Erie Canal.
Even as it celebrates its 40th birthday after a quiet 1977 debut, we cannot be sure of the reasons for Star Wars's success.
A source of jobs and economic growth, the leading manufacturer of American made cars is not a U.S. firm because of globalization.











