It's Pi Day! And in honor of this year's celebration I decided to do a bit of historical research. While π—the ratio between a circle's circumference and its diameter—has long been known and ...
Regarding David Henderson’s “This Year’s Nobel Economist Makes Sense of Irrationality” (op-ed, Oct. 10): I find it fascinating that the Nobel committee and a majority of modern economists are so ...
Adam Smith first coined the term "The Invisible Hand" in his important book "The Wealth of Nations." With this term he was trying to capture the idea that the marketplace would be self-regulating. The ...
Not cool: spending the majority of a TV budget on streaming, certain that no one who matters anymore is watching linear TV.
On Jan. 6, 2021, a mob of United States citizens from across the country stormed the Capitol building in Washington D.C. while Congress was in session certifying the outcome of the presidential ...
Sometimes the best investment books aren't even about investing. Dan Ariely's phenomenal new book, The Upside of Irrationality, is a perfect example. In the same fascinating style of his previous best ...
Women are bad drivers, Saddam plotted 9/11, Obama was not born in America, and Iraq had weapons of mass destruction: to believe any of these requires suspending some of our critical--thinking ...