Economy Dec 10 What Is the Volcker Rule That Five Regulators Just Approved? By Simone Pathe All five regulatory agencies approved a ban on big banks' proprietary trading, named after its chief proponent, former Federal Reserve chair Paul Volcker, center. Photo courtesy of Ralph Alswang for Flickr user Third Way. In…
Economy Nov 22 Americans Think They Know Personal Finance — Even If They Don’t Americans are more confident in their own understanding of financial decision-making than they are in the financial system's ability to provide a secure future, according to the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll. Photo courtesy of Kick Images via Getty…
Economy Nov 22 Americans think they know personal finance — even if they don’t Americans are more confident in their own understanding of financial decision-making than they are in the financial system's ability to provide a secure future, according to the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor Poll. Photo courtesy of Kick Images via Getty…
Economy Nov 20 Why Some Women Try to Have It All: New Research on ‘Like Mother, Like Daughter’ Daughters' working decisions are influenced by their own mothers and the mothers of their friends. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Fabio Trifoni. When Anne-Marie Slaughter first broached writing an op-ed about how women "still can't have it all,",…
Economy Nov 20 Why some women try to have it all: New research on ‘like mother, like daughter’ Daughters' working decisions are influenced by their own mothers and the mothers of their friends. Photo courtesy of Flickr user Fabio Trifoni. When Anne-Marie Slaughter first broached writing an op-ed about how women "still can't have it…
Making Sen$e Oct 31 The Three Reasons Countries Get Rich: Location, Location and Location It’s an age-old question: why are some countries richer than others? And why are some countries still mired in poverty while the United States and Europe struggle with “first-world problems”? For decades, economists have pointed to the impact of political…
Economy Oct 30 Why does the first child get the gold? An economics answer First-born children, on average, do better in school, are less likely to have substance abuse problems and accumulate more wealth. But why? The answer may have a lot to do with a common complaint of eldest siblings. Photo courtesy of…
Economy Oct 30 Why Does the First Child Get the Gold? An Economics Answer First-born children, on average, do better in school, are less likely to have substance abuse problems and accumulate more wealth. But why? The answer may have a lot to do with a common complaint of eldest siblings. Photo courtesy of…
Economy Oct 24 Working More, Voting Less? How Employment Affects Turnout Fuller employment may reduce your tendency to vote in non-presidential contests. Above, voters in Boston, Massachusetts, look over ballot questions while waiting in line to vote in 2012. Photo courtesy of Mike Segar/Reuters. With the United States narrowly missing debt…
Economy Oct 22 More than 25M Americans still can’t get a full-time job Our own unemployment metric, the "Solman Scale," found unemployment ticked down slightly to 15.6 percent. Photo courtesy of John Moore/Getty Images.