As I was driving into the Lijit offices, I was thinking about this years SXSW conference, and how different it would be for me. I was thinking about the posts I had read from friends who were going and had gone before. The difference for me this year will be striking (speaking vs. not-speaking, know...

Now that the preliminary site for RIM’s upcoming application store “BlackBerry App World” is up, we’ve got a lot on our minds and we’re sure you do as well. Our first dose of shock comes from the pricing structure, which is absolutely horrible. To quickly rehash the ima...

David Jones (not his real name) is a medical student at a famous London teaching hospital. There are too many of us. There have been too many of us since a decade ago when the British government figured that the best way to pander to the people was to look like it was improving healthcare. The men i...

I never thought I'd say it, but I agree with Exxon on an environmental issue. The CEO, Rex Tillerson, called for a carbon tax yesterday. As the Wall Street Journal reported... Rex Tillerson said that a tax was a "more direct, a more transparent and a more effective approach" to curtailing greenhouse...

With more and more Italians feeling the pinch amid a global economic crisis, what's the government's solution to rising food prices? Why, to keep prices from falling, of course! With data showing a growing underclass and food lines now in most major cities, the Italian government has come up...

The New York Times says that due to the recession there is a glut of available lobster, which is driving down prices. Apparently, processing plants in Canada that used to buy the excess lobster have shut down due to the recession — leaving a flood of extra lobster in the market. Prices are dow...

I saw this comment over at a political blog today: We are likely to see a weak GOP and a democratic party beset by infighting. Get ready for a decade of political chaos on top of economic chaos. There is no way to take even an educated guess of what will arise from the ashes. Which, actually, might ...

If you have a child in a public school, I have a question for you: How do you feel about the quality of your kid's education knowing the people in charge of it don't even understand the most basic laws of economics? I've lived in Maryland for 12 years now, and I can recall reading ...

Royal Dutch Shell’s Global Business Environment executive Jeremy Bentham and team addressed and fielded questions from the press regarding the company’s “Energy Scenarios to 2050� research and analysis during the first of a planned series of live Shell Dialogues web chats earlier today, May ...

I subbed for the third graders again.  Their teacher told me that they were excited because they liked when I am their sub.  :)  The teacher had me go over supply and demand with them and they ate the lesson up!  After explaining why the price of things go up because of scar...