Subscribe to the newsletter for more Excel tips and tricks. Plus, your free ebook!I read Seth Godin's We Are All Weird this afternoon. Highly recommended -- in fewer than 100 pages, Seth covers how …
Wal-Clinic and the Nature of Primary Care
Struggling to find new sales avenues as the big-box model is in decline, Wal-Mart is building an express-care network.The author makes some interesting points about the nature of primary care in our …
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Big Data and Disperse Knowledge
Economists are frequently turning to Twitter, Google and other online data sources to analyze the markets.In an economy less focused on manufacturing and more on information and connections, it …
What the Internet Can Do For Pennies
I enjoy listening to NPR's Planet Money. They make economic theory manageable to the average listener, through stories on everything from violins to professional sports. I'm frequently disappointed, …
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Is Leisure vs. Labor Irrelevant?
This New Yorker piece brings up a worthy dilemma of our age. The focus of this story is on Keynes's prediction that future generations will have so much idle time that it may even be bad for society. …
The Skills Gap: It’s Mutual
This WP piece highlights another interesting debate in the college vs. manufacturing job debate (also discussed here yesterday). The conventional wisdom is that there are all these manufacturing …