One of the points that economists have a really hard time getting over, probably because it is so counter-intuitive, is that we human beings don?t really consume resources, we create them. This has implications for huge swathes of the environmental movement and also for certain parts of the Peak Oil theory. Please note that I?m ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 16:54

Felix Salmon has the gory details of what actually happened in the flash crash yesterday. Yes, stock got mispriced for a time, the IPO of BATS was withdrawn (not all that much of a surprise really. Revealing that a problem in your trading system will crash the price of the world?s most valuable company right ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 16:54

Naskovets sent away for 33 months in identity theft case; however, take my advice, be paranoid. There's more of 'em out there!

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 16:54

That "Mad Men" is the best thing on TV right now might be self-evident to the millions of crazed fans who will don fedoras and sweater sets and swig Scotch and gin at their viewing parties Sunday night, but it was anything but obvious to the numerous TV executives who passed on the project in the years before it found a home at AMC. Creator Matthew Weiner's vision might have lingered in limbo forever had it not been for Christina Wayne, AMC's former head of original programming, who saw the potential in it that the others had missed. I chatted with Wayne, now president of Cineflix Studios, about the "Mad Men" phenomenon and her new passion project.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 16:45

Many are sending their cash on a trip abroad.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 16:20

You may think free speech means you can say anything you want. How about proselytizing to your flock about not paying taxes? It turns out that kind of speech is frowned on. In United States v. Hartshorn, the IRS actually got an injunction to silence Head Minister Kevin Hartshorn. Wasn?t Hartshorn harmless???Maybe, but as the ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 15:55

Forbes Travel Guide highlights the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai at Historic Ka'upulehu on Hawaii's Big Island???with championship golf, a snorkeling pond and a Four-Star spa.

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 15:55

Two of my recent posts* have addressed the drivers of high health care costs in the U.S. I?ve received a lot of comments, for which I?m grateful, as this is meant to be a conversation. Many of the comments have come from the medical community: doctors, heads of medical practice groups, the AMA, and service ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 15:24

Since the debut of AMC's hit Mad Men in 2007, the show has been ever-present in conversations of gender equality (or reflections of it) in the media. Is it a feminist show? There are female writers! It has female characters in the workplace! There is open talk of contraception! Or is it more accurately a ...

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 15:24

Samsung are on top of the smartphone world... but where will their success happen in 2012? Will they be happy with the iterative Galaxy range of handsets, or is there a hunger for more that will lead to innovation?

pubblicato il: 24/03/2012 - 15:24