It's exceptionally hard to kill bad ideas. The most spectacularly bad idea in economics and finance is that regulating business honesty is bad for business. The idea is exceptionally criminogenic. The ...

You might have asked someone recently, what the heck is going on with Bitcoin? Or maybe you are still wondering what Bitcoin is, or even questioning its relevancy? Image via Shutterstock A lot has ...

Successful or Mediocre. Happy or sad. Right wing or left wing. The word “or” is limiting, yet we use it all the time. With this rhetoric, the “or” mentality pushes people onto one side, treating ...

A couple of weeks ago, former New York Times columnist Anand Giridharadas published Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World. Giridharadas deconstructs the role of the rich and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am the Kester and Brynes Professor at Columbia Business School and a Chazen Senior Scholar at the Jerome A. Chazen Institute for ...

Pope Francis Saturday criticized what he said is a "tragic" and false dichotomy that has been created between religious ethics and the economic-financial sector of society, telling business leaders ...

Last week I talked about the nature of short-term, or working memory and how it helps it build expertise. This week, I want to talk a bit more about how that short-term memory builds long-term memory, ...

For a second consecutive month, the unemployment rate has fallen, this time to the near 54-year low of 3.5%. Despite the Federal Reserve tightening interest rates at the fastest clip in 40 years, the ...

Alarmed, not only because of a host of underlying questions (does the President have the lawful authority to even do this, for instance), but because this adds to an unprecedented amount of government ...