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On Helvetica and U.S. government spending
This final note in which CNN reports a 14-year-old kid in Pittsburgh has found a way to save the federal government $136 million. For a science project, Suvir Mirchandani researched the price of ink,...
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Don't mess with French workers' 35 hour work week
From France, home of the 35 hour work week, this item: French tech sector employees have just struck a new collective bargaining agreement, under the terms of which they are guaranteed that...
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In which the government acknowledges Google
And finally, it seems Congress has discovered the amazing powers of the internet. No joke. From the Congressional Record, Senate Bill 2206 was introduced just last week, and which the legislative...
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Flying in a small plane to the edge of the U.S.
So here's what I want you to do. Take a look a the video we embedded at the top of this post. It's a little old – last December or thereabouts, I think. But it'll do. That's Jim Fallows in the left...
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When a slow news week involves a plane crash...
Here's what I want to know: When did it become August and I missed it? I mean, yes, there've been a few things happening business- and economy-wise since Monday, but honestly, it's been kind of slow....
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If I tweet at you, will you come?
Indulge me for a second here, while I digress, would you? (I know, I haven't really said anything to digress from, but let's not get hung up on the details, shall we?) There's a fistful of business...
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Gunnery Sgt. Holtry, United States Marine Corps
My drill instructor's name was Gunnery Sgt. Holtry, United States Marine Corps. That wasn't his given name, of course. It was Jerry. Jerry W., to be more specific. But lord help any of us if we ever...
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If we were to replace the Dow Jones?
Okay, so this is going to be interesting. And by the end of it I may or may not still have a job. But here goes. If you've been listening to Marketplace this week, you know we've been airing some...
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How (constantly) informed must we be?
First of all, mad props to my colleague David Brancaccio for starting – and finishing – the 544-mile AIDS/Lifecycle ride this past week. Second of all, more and bigger mad props for having the guts...
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With Iraq back again, are we just hearing re-runs?
We did something the other day that I don’t actually think we’ve ever done before. Not on purpose, anyway. We re-ran an interview from the archives: Donald Rumsfeld, from a year or so ago, when he...
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The business opportunity that is climate change
Climate change is a business opportunity. There. I said it. Also? It's true. And kind of a paradox. Global warming's been a bit buzzy this week, what with former Treasury Secretary — and current...
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Why American Apparel is no longer sexy
We’re gonna pause in our regularly scheduled host-blogging for something a little different today: video, not text. Pictures, not words. The subject at hand is the weirdest CEO interview I’ve done in...
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Washington's still kicking the can down the road
Remember when Jon Stewart went on Crossfire – the old Crossfire, with Paul Begala and Tucker Carlson, not the new one with Newt Gingrich and whatstheirnames – and begged them to "Stop, stop hurting...
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Tell us what the economy feels like to you
It’s doing better by lots of measurements – but people don’t feel it. Which is part of what President Obama was out stumping for through November. The data says the economy’s doing better – much...
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