Oct 06 Column: This South Korean shipping company’s collapse could affect you By Vikram Mansharamani The potential ripples of this far-off event are a useful reminder of how interconnected our daily lives are with global developments. Continue reading
Oct 05 Signing up for Medicare? Read this cautionary tale first By Philip Moeller Let this story be your cautionary guide for Medicare's more practical roadblocks. Continue reading
Oct 05 Column: The claim that if wages go up, jobs will go down is not a theory — it’s a scam By Nick Hanauer Opponents of the $15 minimum wage claim that if the minimum wage goes up, jobs will go down. But this is simply an intimidation tactic used by employers to keep wages down and keep profits high. Continue reading
Oct 03 Column: The tax rules that let real estate moguls like Trump pay no federal income tax By Steven M. Rosenthal Leaked excerpts of Trump’s 1995 tax returns showed huge losses that the real estate mogul could have used to offset other income and zero out his income tax liability for many years. Continue reading
Oct 03 How a legal ivory sale increased smuggling and elephant poaching By Making Sen$e Editor The production of black market elephant ivory expanded by an estimated 66 percent following a one-time legal sale in 2008, a new study shows. Continue reading
Sep 30 Column: What’s missing in our economy? Inflation By Vikram Mansharamani Quantitative easing and other unconventional policies should have produced extraordinary inflation, quite possibly even hyperinflation. So what's going on?… Continue reading
Sep 30 Income is surpassing growth in 49 states. What does that mean for the economy? By Tim Henderson, Stateline The sharp gain in median household income last year may also signal a turning point in the decades-old disconnect between middle-class earnings and overall economic growth. Continue reading
Sep 29 Watch 8:45 Why seeing Trump’s tax returns really matters By PBS News Hour Having declined to release his tax returns, Donald Trump made an offhand remark at the first presidential debate that made people wonder if the real estate tycoon pays any tax at all. But that’s just one part of the equation. Continue watching
Sep 28 How do the Affordable Care Act and Medicare interact? By Philip Moeller By design, state health exchanges and Medicare are not supposed to work together. Continue reading
Sep 28 How fast-food killed off the restaurant chain that made highway food popular By Paul Freedman, The Conversation Like a murderously rebellious child, the fast-food industry did eventually kill the restaurant chain that had thought up so many of its innovations. Continue reading