Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants these policies ….

Corporations hope that the right concept will turn things around overnight. This is what you might call the crash-diet approach: starve yourself for ….

This intelligence, or what I'll call "the wisdom of crowds," is at work in the world in many different guises. It's the reason the Internet search en….

If private-equity firms are as good at remaking companies as they claim, they don't need tax loopholes to make money..

But, if recent history has taught us anything, it’s that self-regulation doesn’t work in finance, and that worries about reputation are a weak deterr….

If someone really wants my company's business, why shouldn't he be able to do everything he can - including paying me off - to get that business? Bec….

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape..

In American politics, 'Europe' is usually a code word for 'big government.'.

Under the right circumstances, groups are remarkably smart - smarter even sometimes than the smartest people in them..

Companies, like people, don't much like to change..

Older people do a better job of managing their impulses, and so they're better able to put off putting off..

Real politics is messy and morally ambiguous and doesn't make for a compelling thriller..

If you thought the advent of the Internet, the spread of cheap and efficient information technology, and the growing fragmentation of the consumer ma….

Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality….

To be sure, if you watch CNBC all day long you'll pick up some interesting news about particular companies and the economy as a whole. Unfortunately,….

The history of the Internet is, in part, a series of opportunities missed..

Lower oil prices won't, by themselves, topple the mullahs in Iran. But it's significant that, historically, when oil prices have been low, Iranian re….

If being the biggest company was a guarantee of success, we'd all be using IBM computers and driving GM cars..

If companies tell us more, insider trading will be worth less..

One key to successful group decisions is getting people to pay much less attention to what everyone else is saying..

Unlike fuel-economy standards, the most common method of reducing demand for oil over the past thirty years, a gas tax doesn't tell people what kind ….