Economy Oct 24 Can You Compete with Baxter? Yes, Says Vivek Wadhwa Throughout history, technology has caused change and disruption in the workplace, as when auto workers were replaced by creatures like these. But new higher quality jobs will emerge, argues Vivek Wadhwa. Photo by Stockbyte via Getty Images. I've reported…
Economy Oct 18 How to Follow the Prediction Markets in Real Time Digital Vision via Getty Images We have four questions today, since they all concern our recent story on polls, professors and prediction markets and yesterday's afternoon Making Sen$e post on how to make money on presidential prediction…
Economy Oct 17 How to Make Money on the Presidential Prediction Markets Mitt Romney and President Obama point fingers during the second presidential debate at Hofstra Univesity in New York. Photo by Charlie Neibergall/AP/New York Daily News. We first reported on presidential prediction markets in a favorite story of ours…
Economy Oct 12 Why the President Is Still a Heavy Favorite on the Prediction Markets Ohio -- which has remained Obama friendly -- is one of three key states where Romney needs to gain support in order to swing the election in his favor. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images On the NewsHour tonight we explore…
Politics Oct 12 Why the President Is Still a Heavy Favorite on the Prediction Markets Ohio -- which has remained Obama friendly -- is one of three key states where Romney needs to gain support in order to swing the election in his favor. Photo by Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images On the NewsHour tonight we explore…
Politics Oct 10 American Ideology? There Is No Such Thing American flags at the U.S. Capitol. Photo by: Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images Distinguished Fellow in Grand Strategy and Senior Lecturer Charles Hill has been on the Yale faculty since the mid-'90s after a long career in the U.S. Foreign…
Economy Oct 10 American Ideology? There is No Such Thing American flags at the U.S. Capitol. Photo by: Scott J. Ferrell/Congressional Quarterly/Getty Images This is the second of two consecutive Making Sen$e posts by esteemed academic colleagues at different places on the political spectrum who don't have blogs, don't have…
Economy Oct 09 If Job Boards Don’t Work, Why Do Companies Screen by Computer? Warehouse manager at operations desk on computer Photo by: John McBride & Company Inc. I first heard Wharton Business School Professor Peter Cappelli speak grim truths about today's job market at a conference in 2009. We then featured him in…
Economy Oct 08 Ask Larry: Can a Thirty-Something in Good Health Collect Social Security? Creative Commons Photo Courtesy of Flickr user Fabricator of Useless Articles Larry Kotlikoff's Social Security "secrets" and his answers to your questions (here, here and here) have prompted so many of you to write in that…
Economy Oct 04 Spanish Dumpster Diving Night skyline of Madrid. Photo by: Angel Navarrete/Bloomberg via Getty Images A post from Madrid today on last week's sensational New York Times story and slide show on hunger rising in Spain. The post is courtesy of one of our…