The chorus of “I’m Forever Blowing Bubbles”, music by John Kellette, and lyrics by James Kendis, James Brockman, and Nat Vincent, first performed on Broadway in 1918 (That’s r

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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I’ve come up with a new economic barometer to gauge the strength of the economy: the Osborne Rule. Like former Fed official John Taylor of the eponymous Taylor Rule or William Phillips of the P

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“Little darling, it’s been a long cold lonely winter.” --The BeatlesRemember when we talked about one of two potential game changing catalysts on Monday?That's the bid we

AT&T (T) may have stumbled into a brave new world of spam and profits. The New York Times reports that the former Mother F. Bell sent text messages to a "significant number" of its 75 m