John Hechinger & Suzanne Sataline: More U.S. cities are considering scrapping a longstanding tradition in American education, the elected school board, and opting to let mayors rule over the classroom. Dallas and Milwaukee are currently mulling mayoral control of the city's schools, and Detroit is u...

Since the bailout scam started in September I have run across numerous people who seem to think this depression we’re in is just a severe form of the regular business cycle and that while it may take a little longer, things will right themselves and we can go back to our unbridled spending spr...

Going over real estate advice on the Internet, it seems the majority says it’s a good time to buy a home these days with the market prices down and all. Not to mention the tax incentives for new home buyers. But if you were buying a new home, you’d have to know all the details so you can...

A collection of everyday items made outrageously expensive. Hopefully these items are strictly for marketing/PR purposes as it would be a shame to waste this kind of money on such crap. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to have a million dollars you probably only thought about the cars...

I'm starting to believe that everyone in power over the last few decades were all completely incompetent: FDIC collected little in premiums. Do these people have any idea how fucking insurance is suppose to work? You collect premiums to pay out later when you need it, and like most insurance compani...

For 10 years—including the boom times banks enjoyed in the first half of this decade—the FDIC was prevented from collecting fees from 95% of financial institutions, which it would have used to further build up its safety net in the event it would someday have to bail out a bunch of stupi...

Most circles of thought look at certain habits as being minimal.  Especially the practitioners feel most adamant about habitual usage being "harmless", can never hurt you, or have any negative side effects.  Something that comes from the ground has none of the addictive qualities of pharma...

Tout ça c'est la faute de la crise... Le plan de renouveau du quartier d'affaires de la Défense, qui prévoyait la construction de 450.000 m2 de bureaux à l'horizon 2015, va prendre du retard, selon l'aménageur du site mercredi interviewé......

WhatТs in the New Student Loan Proposal Higher-education experts say the Obama administration has proposed the broadest overhaul of federal college aid programs in decades. But for all the focus on the size of the budget, it has been hard to tell just what this means for students and their families...

Andrew Rotherham: The President's speech today includes a lot of interesting tidbits, a shout-out for performance pay, a call to lift charter school caps, and even a very pro-Broad Prize signal embedded in the data section. I've been lukewarm on some of the stimulus, more on that later, but this is ...