I saw an interesting link today in a post in the Wall Street Journal Wealth Report Blog. It highlighted the Global Rich List.
Using World Bank income data, it lets you put in your income and find out how you compare to the rest of the world. Granted, it does so based on income [...]

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With $330 billion in annual sales, Wal-Mart certainly attracts a lot of shoppers–and unflattering attention. It’s often blamed for paying workers poorly, driving small merchants out of business, buying from overseas sweatshops, and killing downtowns. When you read about them in the news, it’s usually about how their latest proposed store is being [...]

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The EPA and DOE yesterday released the 2007 Top Fuel Economy List which featured the Toyota Prius hybrid as the car with the best fuel economy at 60 mpg city/51 mpg highway (at least based on current official EPA reported mileage, which is higher than real world mileage according to most tests). This brought [...]

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That’s the subtitle of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke’s speech at the Washington Economic Club on Wednesday this week. In it he discusses the implications of the aging of the baby boomers and the ongoing increases in life expectancy. Economically, it’s not a pretty picture, but it’ll only get worse if we keep putting [...]

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