The founder of Maniv Energy Capital and leading investor in Israel's clean energy movement discusses a new model for introducing the world to electric vehicles.
Do watchdog news orginizations cover political scandals in equal depth? Or does a significant level of bias exist?
Argyris Tsiaras reviews community activist and civil rights lawyer, Van Jones, latest book. How can one solution "fix" two of out biggest problems, environmentalism and economic growth?
Columnist Jennifer Barrows discusses the 2008 Harvard/MIT study “Secrets of the Academy: The Drivers of the University Endowment Success”.
Yale School of Management Professor Lisa Kahn addresses the possible consequences in her paper, “The Long-Term Labor Market Consequences of Graduating from College in a Bad Economy.”
As the U.S. government ponders giving a second tax rebate to millions of households, it is important to consider the potential effects of such measures on consumption in order to fully evaluate their impact on the economy.
The pundits may all have their own opinions on the merits of global inter-connectedness, but statistics tell many different stories regarding whether international economies have really converged to move in a synchronous global business cycle.
There has always seemed to be an inherent ethical conflict in advertising medications. Why should companies have to advertise their drugs? Shouldn’t success come from the curing of patients rather than the creativity of an advertising executive?
A 2008 study from the University of Venice provides evidence of a growing trend: that the developed world is saving less and less.
In the wake of the subprime fallout that has been rocking the housing market and the entire U.S. economy, a realtor’s value added is probably the last thing on anyone’s mind.
Second Life, a virtual online world, mimics real life by allowing its subscribers to buy, sell, and develop different types of digital goods and property. By taking a radically different stance towards real-world laws and money than its peer digital worlds, Second Life has developed an intricate freemarket economy with a level of sophistication unseen in other similar programs [...]
Although China recently ended its policy of maintaining a firm exchange rate for its currency, the renminbi (RMB), several American politicians still argue that the RMB is undervalued and, in the midst of a financial crisis, they are turning their eyes to China to find an easy escape from a recession.