193,000 of the jobs added in March were the result of the BLS's statistical adjustment called the "Birth/Death Model."

Fluorescent bulbs emit a light spectrum that's much closer to natural sunlight than do incandescent bulbs.  Guess we'll just have to evolve back to our status before Mr. Edison lit up the night.

You are referring to the period that produced the Panics of 1819, 1825, 1837, 1847, 1857, 1866, 1873, 1884, 1890, 1893, 1901, 1907, and 1910.  The Panics of 1837 and 1873 each resulted in a depression that lasted 5 years.   By the way, there was plenty of paper currency back then, issued by private banks.  They all...more

Wait just a dog-gone minute.  People working at Wal-Mart get benefits?!?  How can that be?  All those Wal-Mart detractors out there keep telling us that Wal-Mart doesn't provide their employees with benefits.

That $3.9 mil divided among the 22,000 Regal emplyees works out to $177 per employee -  nowhere near enough to pay for the extra cost of healthcare under Obamacare.  Sorry, under that scenario, there's no money to give you a break on concessions.

When I go to the local Olive Garden, I can look in the windows as I walk to the entrance and see many empty tables inside, but they still make you wait 20 minutes to be seated.

Just what the ObamaCare folks wanted.  They make it onerous, so that businesses pay the fine rather than provide health plans.  Voila - you now have a single payer system (what they wanted all along).

Ultimately, the bottom line is the energy must balance (first law of thermodynamics).  Intake less expenditure equals accumulation.  If you take in more calories than you expend, the body stores the excess as fat, and you gain weight.  If you expend more than you take in, the body draws on fat reserves, and you lose we...more

I wasn't around at the time, but I've read quite a few books on the Great Depression, written by both economists and historians.  The causes generally listed are excessive leverage, trade wars (import tarriffs), and large tax increases.  This is the first I've read that the real cause was income disparity.  Who knew?