| Feb 13, 2013 | Economy / BusinessWhen do societies start taking a new idea seriously? Easy. New ideas gain traction when starkly different sorts of people champion them. This process is beginning to unfold with the notion of a “maximum wage,” the idea that we should limit the income of...
| Sep 3, 2012 | Economy / BusinessWhy do CEOs make so much? Do they just have more smarts than the rest of us? About 43 percent of Americans apparently think so, pollsters at the Pew Research Center recently reported. They rate CEOs and other rich folks as more intelligent than the average person. An...
| Aug 27, 2012 | Economy / BusinessHow about taking a moment this Labor Day to reflect about those Americans who earn the least for their labor? These Americans — workers paid the federal minimum wage — are now making $7.25 an hour. On paper, they’re making the same wage they made in...
| Aug 20, 2012 | Economy / BusinessA generation ago, on National Secretary’s Day, America’s top corporate executives used to take their prized office assistants out to lunch. Times change, and National Secretary’s Day has become Administrative Professionals’ Day. But something...
