Earlier this week, three Americans were awarded the Nobel prize for economics. According to the article I read about them in The Washington Post, their work has helped unify the theories behind asset pricing.  Although I'm not a numbers geek, one of the winners has spent years studying housing markets, so I was very interested to learn [...]

I recently read an article in The Sacramento Bee that confirmed what I've suspected for a long time: Americans know that walking is good for their health and that they aren't doing enough of it. According to a survey commissioned by the major health-care provider Kaiser Permanente, a whopping 94% of Americans recognize the physical and [...]