ECONOMICS

The weakness of the Japanese yen seems to been a boon for the Japanese economy which released better than expected GDP data last week and [...]

Mark Schwartz, the vice chairman of Goldman Sachs and chairman of the firms Asia Pacific group, reviews China’s prospects for grappling with the country’s environmental issues strained [...]

Education is intended to be a direct channel to meaningful employment and prosperity at the individual, state, and federal levels, but the U.S. continues to [...]

Metalysis is a firm that is creating an innovative way to produce a variety of metals at significantly lower cost. Somewhat similar to the Hall [...]

The Milken Institute Global 2013 Conference is currently underway (Apr 28 - May 1) and features a powerhouse list of industry leaders as speakers. Yesterdays lunch panel [...]

Economists Robert Gordon and Erik Brynjolffson debated the future of work and innovation at TED2013. Gordon has received a lot of publicity over the last [...]

John Hussman wrote an interesting note this week called Taking Distortion at Face Value. Although Hussman is traditionally bearish, he makes some critical arguments that are hard [...]

The World Economic Forum released it’s annual Global Information Technology Report today, ranking countries based on infrastructure, cost of access, and overall skills. Four major [...]

Two brilliant thinkers, Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman, recently discussed Antifragility at the New York Public Library. It’s interesting to analyze the concept of fragility applied across [...]

Jason Perlow, Senior Tech Editor at ZDNet, raises a pressing concern that many have yet to consider: How will Chinese and Korean instability affect technology production? Perlow outlines country specific [...]

SocGen’s China Economist, Wei Yao, recently shared her macro outlook for the evolving economic and political giant through a series of video interviews. Leadership Transition Long-Term [...]

Allan Savory challenges traditional understandings of climate change and desertification in a recent TED presentation. As demand for necessities (food, water, shelter) exponentially grow, holistic grazing tactics are [...]

After hitting ten straight days of new Dow highs, I thought it would be interesting to compare how markets have performed through periods following tax [...]

Milton Friedman challenges the belief that capitalism and greed are bad characteristics of the American economy in an 1979 interview with Phil Donahue. Given events over [...]

Russell Investments recently launched a new blog called The Wire, where the firms talented professionals welcome everyone to aid the development of investing thesis through discussion. In summary [...]

At the recent WEF conference in Davos, Arianna Huffington told CNN Money that in her opinion the biggest ignored crisis is youth unemployment. Latest stats [...]

To promote a new trust, Sprott recently put together a nice info-graphic covering what platinum and palladium are and why you should care. As current production is heavily concentrated in [...]

California has been on the radar lately for its abundant shale reserves, but what does this really mean for the US and Global energy markets? Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research recently released a video discussing what to expect from this space in coming years.

The ADP employment report for December came in higher than expected today, with the economy adding 215,000 jobs. Data shows that most of those hired [...]

Generally speaking, market outlooks are a dangerous proposition because there is a high likelihood of being wrong; nonetheless, I give you my 2013 Outlook. Going into 2013 [...]