Consumers crave certainty, and they work pretty hard to minimize the risk of making a bad choice. That’s why once consumers find something that works,...
The “Mighty Thor” was a household game-changer in 1908. Invented by Alva John Fisher, Thor was the first electric washing machine to be mass-produced and...
Human beings are creatures of habit. Take popcorn and going to the movies. Americans consume roughly 13 billion quarts of popcorn every year, roughly 30...
Netflix Co-founder and CEO Reed Hastings has written a new book about building the video-streaming powerhouse that now has nearly 200 million subscribers globally, as...
The Commerce Department released July’s retail sales last week, showing an increase in seasonally adjusted retail spending – up 1.2 percent overall last month, but...
By now, you’ve no doubt heard the story about how Isaac Newton turned quarantining during London’s outbreak of the Bubonic Plague between 1665 and 1667...
The most interesting thing about Big Tech’s Fab Four tour of Capitol Hill last Wednesday (July 29) wasn’t the perfunctory lawmaker grandstanding, or even the...
“We are suffering just now from a bad attack of economic pessimism.” That is the first sentence of a roughly 4,000-word essay titled “Economic Possibilities...
In 1946, the then-61 members of the World Health Organization (WHO) saw the need for a consistent yet comprehensive definition of “health.” They felt strongly...