Digital Gems

I’VE READ A LOT of retirement books touting the “keys to a successful retirement.” Some have great ideas. But I think they miss a key ingredient. My contention: To have a successful retirement, we need to start with a proper understanding of work. Admittedly, it’s a counterintuitive way of looking at retirement. But sometimes looking at a problem backward can help us find creative solutions. In other words, examine the opposite of retirement for lessons about retirement.

For some, the office even stifles creativity. As the pandemic eases in the U.S., a few companies seek to reimagine what work might look like.

Shoppers aren't showing any signs of getting tired of Amazon Prime Day, even though some sellers had said they weren't planning on offering deals this year.

The trend throughout the year has been for the market to surprise on the high side vs. the levels implied by supply, but the relentless drain on inventory is pointing to more sequential weakness before growth resumes later this year.

As part of the new home sales report released yesterday, the Census Bureau reported the number of homes sold by price and the average and me...

The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays report for May: Personal income decreased $414.3 billion (2.0 percent) in May according...

Note: At the beginning of the pandemic, the delinquency rate increased sharply (see table below).   Loans in forbearance are counted as deli...

From the BEA: Gross Domestic Product (Third Estimate), GDP by Industry, and Corporate Profits (Revised), 1st Quarter 2021 Real gross domes...

Books on leadership and self-improvement, recommended by the US Navy.

A laborer discovered the fossil and hid it in a well for 85 years. Scientists say it could help sort out the human family tree and how our species emerged.

Six months of unusual warmth in Siberia, along with a 100-degree temperature record, would not have happened without global warming.

This is a report I wrote for my housing policy course at UCLA. I’ve been interested in inclusionary zoning and its potential side effects…

Debates concerning residential population displacement in the context of gentrification remain vociferous, but are hampered by a lack of empirical evidence of t...

The conversation about gentrification continually repackages a set of debunked theories as reality and it obscures a set of real crises that need fixing.

U.S. business costs, buffeted by a COVID-decimated year of “chaos” worldwide in 2020, fell 4% to $1.56 trillion. That amounted to 7.4% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), nearly an all-time low, according to a new authoritative report on the logistics sector.

LifeStance's stock price has soared since its IPO earlier this month.

(2021). Teams do not outperform individuals in a simple creative task. Applied Economics Letters. Ahead of Print.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals.

Online short-term rental (STR) platforms such as Airbnb have grown spectacularly. We study the effects of regulation of these platforms on the housing…

How workers manufacturing products like aloe jelly and gardening gloves also became the influencers selling them.

Pinning stress on the coronavirus helped couples cope and remain resilient

Roth IRAs were intended to help average working Americans save, but IRS records show Thiel and other ultrawealthy investors have used them to amass vast untaxed fortunes.

A new report details global warming’s impact on Yellowstone Park, changes that have begun to fundamentally alter its famed ecosystem and threaten everything from its forests to Old Faithful geyser. Such troubling shifts are occurring in national parks across the U.S. West.

It only took a couple centuries.