Edward R. Dewey was a Harvard-educated economist who worked for the Department of Commerce during the 1929 stock market crash. After the crash he was assigned the task of finding out what caused the

The United States, long an exporter of popular culture, may be exporting obesity to Europe, Asia, and Africa thanks to strong fast-food sales led by McDonald’s (MCD).The World Health Organizati

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It's no wonder that gold is soaring with the US, UK, and China all printing money like mad. Throw enough money around and gold is bound to rise regardless of anything else that might happen (all of i

UK Economy Contracts Again The UK’s longest recession in a generation continues. Britain’s Office for National Statistics said today the economy shrank 0.4% in the period from July throug

It’s not always enough to be a mere “guest” in a luxury hotel. Wouldn’t it be better to feel like you own the place? Not just the room. The whole place -- and the outdoors as

Surprise, surprise, surprise -- not: The oil-hype story as discussed in Ten Reasons to Ignore the Hype Over Secret Oil Meetings has blown sky high already, just hours after I wrote it.Russia Denies T

Now that the G-20 economic summit is over, inquiring minds have a few questions on their minds: 1. Will the Group of 20 be more effective because it includes important new players such as India and B

The sun never sets on the company that added “Miller time” to its worldwide beer lineup. That’s not deft marketing from Milwaukee, but the inexorable force of globalization. Mi

Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992), Austrian economist, author and 1974 Nobel Prize-winner for Economics wrote: “With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governme