After the administration released estimates that the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) to bail out failing financial institutions would cost $200 billion less than originally thought, President Obama suggested using the leftover money to on a...
The Huffington Post will sell parts of its comments section as advertising space in order to increase add revenue. Advertisers will “create a dialogue” with readers.
“Forget fair and unfair, right and wrong,” says Tech Crunch while discussing the...
What do popular T-Shirt slogans tell us about our current notions of happiness? According to Big Think’s new guest, Steven Hayes, they signal that mass, commercial culture has cheapened our conception of bliss, making it overly emotional, ambitious,...
There's always a lot of chaos and confusion surrounding a physical assault made on a political figure, but yesterday's attack on Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has the potential to shake open an especially big can of worms.
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Textbooks--and perhaps, uniquely, economics textbooks--are not known for their literary brilliance. Why should they be? Does math need metaphor? In college when we think about numbers we think about things derived at the opposite end of campus from the...
