Sep 28 Watch 7:49 For African-American female entrepreneurs, funding challenges call for creative bootstrapping By PBS News Hour The fastest growing group of entrepreneurs in the U.S. is African-American women. But minority-owned businesses often face greater challenges getting funding. The NewsHour’s April Brown profiles two women who have bucked the stereotypes and gotten resourceful to launch their ventures. 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 After the recession, entrepreneurs are on the rebound, study says By Laura Santhanam Men still vastly outnumber women 10-to-1 across industrialized nations, according to a new report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. 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
Sep 26 Column: Which currencies are overvalued? The Mini Mac Index tells all By Benn Steil, Emma Smith The “law of one price” holds that identical goods should trade for the same price in an efficient market. But to what extent does it actually hold internationally?… Continue reading
Sep 25 Watch This company raised minimum wage to $70,000 -- and it helped business By PBS News Hour In 2015, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price announced he would raise the company’s minimum wage to $70,000 a year by 2017 and slash his own compensation by more than 90 percent. More than a year later, Price reports the company's… Continue watching
Sep 23 Air pollution takes its toll on productivity even for those with desk jobs By Making Sen$e Editor Even in a job where employees' only physical exertion involves answering the phone, air pollution takes its toll on productivity. Continue reading
Sep 23 Bill allowing 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia vetoed by Obama By Darlene Superville and Josh Lederman, Associated Press President Obama has vetoed a bill that would have allowed the families of 9/11 victims to sue the government of Saudi Arabia. Continue reading
Sep 22 Watch 8:06 The psychological trick behind getting people to say yes By PBS News Hour Asking for someone’s phone number in front of a flower shop will be more successful because the flowers prime us to think about romance. Small, subliminal cues change our willingness to be sold on a product, on ideas or even… Continue watching
Sep 22 What's 'Pre-Suasion?' How marketers make us receptive to an ad By Paul Solman The factor that frequently determines whether people are going to make a particular choice is not the factor that counsels wisely or the one that leads to the greatest economic benefit. It’s the one that’s top of the consciousness in… Continue reading