Managerial Econ

Marketplace has an interesting story about Amazon's new Kindle Fire. Amazon might succeed where others have be able failed because it ...

This XKCD cartoon has a different message for social scientists. Why don't more college football fans bet against their alma maters? Wo...

Compared to post-war US recessions, it looks worse: But compared to world financial crises, it doesn't look as bad.

The GTX Corp has developed GPS enabled shoes so that loved ones can better monitor Alzheimers patients. I, of course, immediately though of...

I'm not sure a solar powered trash compactor is ever efficient. But, when you place it indoors it becomes much less efficient.

Reed Hastings, Co-Founder and CEO, Netflix fesses up about their pricing blunder. The best part has to do with overall business strategy. M...

The Congressional Super Committee was charged with negotiating for deficit reduction and it membership is split evenly between the blue and...

A bank's capital ratio  is designed to measure a bank’s capital relative to its risk exposure and is one of the ratios that regulators ...

ten years ago, German unemployment was just as bad as the rest of Europe's.  But now it has a 6% and falling .  What is their Secret?   ...