Covering Pop Hits On YouTube Is Starting To Pay
The online video sharing site YouTube is this generation’s MTV. Artists like Gotye and PSY have found mainstream success after …
Google Fights Glass Backlash Before It Even Hits The Street
Google Glass isn’t even for sale yet, but it’s already facing backlash. There have been articles in the Atlantic and …
Peers Find Less Pressure Borrowing From Each Other
The Internet has managed to disrupt many industries, from publishing to music. So why not lending? Google is teaming up …
Big Ag Agrees to Conserve Cropland, But At What Cost?
Taxpayers help subsidize crop insurance premiums for farmers to the tune of about $9 billion dollars, a figure that’s growing …
PBS Continues The March Into Streaming Programming
Let’s start with a brief tour of streaming television online. For quite a while, streaming television meant sitting and watching …
Weekly Jobless Claims Stay Near 5-Year Low
There were 323,000 first-time claims for unemployment insurance last week, down 4,000 from the week before, the Employment and Training …
I Know I’m Supposed To Follow My Passion. But What If I Don’t Have A Passion?
A while back, Max Kornblith sent the following email to Tyler Cowen, an economist who blogs at Marginal Revolution: 1) …
Stitching Connections Between U.S. Fashion Designers, Makers
Hundreds of people died when a garment factory collapsed last month in Bangladesh. The tragedy is a reminder of the …
Hospital Prices, Revealed! (Sort Of)
Economists think prices are close to magic — constantly changing signals that help people figure out what to buy and …
Will Tweaking Windows 8 Be Enough To Revive The PC?
When Microsoft introduced Windows 8 last year, the software giant billed the new operating system as one of the most …
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