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Just 27% of BA's Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don't Believe the Fed's New Stat Reuters

Just 27% of BA's Have Jobs Related to Their Major? Don't Believe the Fed's New Stat

Whenever you see a big, bold statistic about the fate of college grads, take it with a grain of salt.

Of Course Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes—And It Should Reuters

Of Course Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes—And It Should

The big reveal here is two-fold: The U.S. corporate tax code is an impossible dream (we knew that, already); and Apple is acting like a sensible corporation (we knew that, too).

Prescription for Information Overload

Prescription for Information Overload

Advanced computing looks at yesterday's treatments to improve tomorrow's

Innovator Chat: How Watson Can Transform Healthcare

Innovator Chat: How Watson Can Transform Healthcare

Watson cracks the code to a new world of big data, helping us make better decisions.

A Marriage Mystery: Why Aren't More Wives Outearning Their Husbands? _rockinflee/Flickr

A Marriage Mystery: Why Aren't More Wives Outearning Their Husbands?

With women taking more than half of the country's new bachelor's degrees, many of them should be the chief breadwinners in their families. They're not. How come?

Why America's Falling Birth Rate Is Sensational News for the Pet Industry Reuters
College Is Going Online, Whether We Like It Or Not Reuters

College Is Going Online, Whether We Like It Or Not

Skittish college professors won't stop the digital disruption of higher education.

College Enrollment Is Falling Faster Than We Thought (Good News!) Reuters

College Enrollment Is Falling Faster Than We Thought (Good News!)

We should want more college graduates. But we should also want fewer students at colleges with high drop-out rates.

In Homage to <em>The Office</em>: What's the Worst Job You've Ever Had?

In Homage to The Office: What's the Worst Job You've Ever Had?

Email me your occupational horror stories -- or leave them in the comments -- and I'll publish the very best, without your name unless you ask otherwise

That's a 'Depression': Europe's Double-Dip Is Officially Longer Than Its Great Recession Reuters
So, Venezuela Has a Toilet-Paper Shortage (Don't Laugh&mdash;Seriously) Reuters

So, Venezuela Has a Toilet-Paper Shortage (Don't Laugh—Seriously)

Okay, I guess you can laugh. At socialism.

Student Debt Isn't Hurting the Economy the Way You Think Reuters

Student Debt Isn't Hurting the Economy the Way You Think

It's not the debt. It's the delinquencies.

A Simple Graph That Should Silence Austerians and Gold Bugs Forever

The U.S. recovery hasn't been pretty. But it's been prettier than Europe and Japan, for sure.

Why Goldman Sachs Just Bet $500 Million on Elon Musk's Solar Business Reuters

Why Goldman Sachs Just Bet $500 Million on Elon Musk's Solar Business

Forget Tesla (for the moment). Musk's roof-top firm SolarCity is now the nation's largest residential solar installer

How to Design the Perfect Tax on Hipsters Flickr/juplife

How to Design the Perfect Tax on Hipsters

Income taxes are so over

Why Does a Rhino Horn Cost $300,000? Because Vietnam Thinks It Cures Cancer and Hangovers Reuters

Why Does a Rhino Horn Cost $300,000? Because Vietnam Thinks It Cures Cancer and Hangovers

A rhino-head heist spree is sweeping the world and destroying rhino populations, mostly because of some ridiculous myths

These 2 Maps About Student Loans Explode One of the Biggest Myths About Student Loans Reuters

These 2 Maps About Student Loans Explode One of the Biggest Myths About Student Loans

The media fixates on the overall size of student debt. But where you go to school, whether you graduate, and what kind of job you get later may matter much more.

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