We learned this week that Facebook has turned 50 – certainly not 50 years old – I wonder if Zuckerberg’s parents are 50 years old – but...

I have a new favorite television show, although it will have to work hard to maintain that distinction once a new season of 30 Rock...

The Treasury Department is printing up another new $50 bill with yet another new picture of me on it. This one has special colors hidden...

The economists have looked out upon the world and pronounced it good. Just last week, Gregory Mankiw, chair of the Council of Economics...

Aldous Huxley once remarked that man made the automobile in his own image. But if humans ever created a machine in celebration of...

The amazing U.S. economic expansion reached its 106th month in February, making it the longest-running uninterrupted period of growth in...

Ecuador’s having one of those globalization moments: its President tried to replace his country’s local currency with the U.S. dollar...

The millennium ends today. Let’s review it. A thousand years ago, life was nasty, brutish, and short. People could neither read nor...