It isn't all bad out there. There's even grounds that the corporate sense of humor has returned, given that I saw Borders stack Anna Quindlen in its "Literature" section. More…

Hi all. The links to the KIBS psychic experiment will work, once they actual stories appear on their scheduled dates. They won't work for the parts of the series that…

The situation is this: New Yorkers are loosing their jobs at a rate not seen since perhaps the Great Depression. The housing market is still heading downwards. People have less,…

Just a friendly reminder that this site is in part mercenary and that I am for hire. See my Hire me! page for full details of all the wonderful things…

Stephen Hockman QC---which, if you read Rumpole, you know means queer customer---is a European (I can't say Englishman, because an Englishman would not voluntarily cede his country's sovereignty to a…

We're probably getting tired of this topic (I am), but many people requested that we look at the same data but take into account the influence of Congress. This is…

Just for fun, here's another way to look at the same data we've been playing with (in this post and this one.) First thing is to calculate the inflation-adjusted spending…