Life today in Mueller—an innovative suburb of Austin, Tex., seems like something out of the distant future. New homes wired with the latest smart gadgets cluster together around shared park spaces. Blue-black panels that transform sunshine into electricity grace a majority of roofs. Electric cars or hybrids glide silently to rest in garages. Continue reading… “Is it possible for the U.S. to go all-electric?”
The biggest sectors of the “sharing economy” — including transportation and travel companies like Uber, Zipcar and Airbnb – could be pulling in as much as $335 billion in global revenue by 2025, according to projections by PricewaterhouseCoopers. Continue reading… “Millennials driving the new economy with trust”
According to a new research paper, America’s sprawl cost somewhere in the range of a trillion dollars every year. Continue reading… “Bad urban design cost $1 trillion a year”
With the size of Wall Street bonuses commonly being compared against the median household income, income inequality has quickly become a hot-button political issue in the United States. Continue reading… “Income gap between bosses and workers getting bigger”
Luxury toilet paper is America’s new favorite way to flush money down the drain. Continue reading… “Luxury toilet paper on the rise”
Andrew McAfee, the associate director of the Center for Digital Business at the MIT Sloan School of Management has revealed “the best economic news in human history,” claiming that we’re on the brink of the possibility of rising living standards for everyone on earth. He says that technological progress means humanity will soon solve the problem of ‘increasing scarcity’, meaning that there are, in theory, enough goods and wages for everyone in the world. Continue reading… “The best economic news in human history”
In a recent “tweetstorm,” venture capitalist Marc Andreessen offers 16 “somewhat-less obvious ideas for how to expand the number of “unicorn” great tech startups over time.” Continue reading… “Marc Andreessen’s 16 ideas for a more dynamic US economy”
One huge political issues in recent years has been that Wall Street has done better than Main Street. the Bank for International Settlements has a new study that shows exactly why rapid finance sector growth is bad for the rest of the economy. Continue reading… “Warning: rapid finance sector growth is bad for the economy”
The global stock market had a very different look 145 years ago than it does today. Continue reading… “Global stocks comparison, 1899 and 2014”
A question that social scientists and economists have long puzzled over, how corruption arises in different cultures and why it is more prevalent in some countries than others. But finding correlations between corruption and other measures of economic or social activity has always been difficult. Continue reading… “Data mining shows global link between wealth and corruption”
Can solar power transform the electricity market as much as shale did for oil and gas? This question has been posed in a new study by Wood MacKenzie, an international energy research and consulting company. Continue reading… “Can solar be the next shale?”
Condominiums have been the easiest way to get a foothold into the housing market for many first-time homebuyers, a pit stop on the way to a dream home.
Continue reading… “Price gap between homes and condos at record level”
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