Jordan Weissmann

Thanks to some geological luck, drilling in the United States is much cheaper than abroad. More »

A new study from Stanford might give eBay and Amazon reason to worry about what will happen if sales tax comes to the web. More »

Real wages have been falling during since the recession ended. And the reasons why might be much deeper than a weak recovery. More »

Americans believe gold is a better long-term bet than stocks, bonds, or real estate. Do they have a point? More »

A new Gallup poll says ownership rates have plummeted. But that doesn't mean we should worry. More »

America's using less and less, and exports might not be able to save the industry. More »

Keeping rates down on a fraction of student loans won't do anything to solve the college affordability crisis. More »

Walmart's Mexican bribery scandal is shining the spotlight on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, an obscure law that's become a bane for some of the World's largest corporations. More »

Budget cuts have forced the school to slash its computer science program, yet its sports budget has increased. Here's why the administration isn't choosing athletics over academics. More »

A college diploma isn't worth what it used to be. To get hired, grads today need hard skills. More »

Obama has one answer. The Republicans have another. And both are wrong. More »

How some of America's top law firms devoured profits before the Great Recession, got too fat, and are now suffering the consequences More »

Banks and hedge funds have bet billions of dollars on oil in the last decade, but it's not clear whether they're driving up costs More »

Each year, big time developers in the sunshine state save millions in property taxes by, yes, renting cattle More »

Public schools, one of the pillars of female employment, have been a casualty of state budgets. More »

The government's antitrust suit against Apple and five publishers will make Amazon more powerful than ever in publishing More »

It's true: Women have accounted for 92 percent of all job losses since Obama took office. But most of them have been laid off from government jobs, often in red states. More »

It would take the average Indian 308 years to buy a deluxe home in Mumbai More »

Low-wage assembly work is so 2005. Chinese firms are now aiming at the global market for heavy machinery -- one of the last refuges of American industrial dominance. More »

This is a story about how innovation happens. It begins in 1386 after the great Papal Schism (seriously), demonstrates the ability of universities to foster capitalism, and concludes with a surprising hero of the modern world: lawyers. More »