Opinion

Business leaders, investors and consumers are, for the first time in decades, facing price uncertainty. Investor and media fascination with commodities has given way to very real concerns about accelerating inflation rates. Businesses are already …

It didn’t bother me when a highly scientific survey in North Korea found that China is the happiest nation on Earth. North Korea narrowly lost out on the top spot when a shortage of badminton …

If the average life expectancy today in the West is around 80 (and still rising), and 53 is the median age of people in the Baby Boom generation (born between 1946 and 1964), this means …

In the world of office work, we’re seeing a dichotomy. Or is that just a glare off a car in the parking lot? No, I’m pretty sure it’s a dichotomy.

According to a recent report …

In 1900, the average life span in the United States was 47 years. Today, life expectancy is approaching 80. Every day, 8,000 people turn 60. When Social Security was established in 1935, people older than …

Republican political consultant Mike Murphy was on to us in Time magazine recently, writing that Iowa is reaping a financial windfall with the caucuses every four years.

“Candidates may go to Iowa thinking they are …

As we approach the Aug. 2 deadline to raise the nation’s debt limit so the federal government does not default on its financial obligations, and I listen to the politicos and pundits debate the subject, …

One day we drove from here toward northeast Iowa and saw water standing in fields all along the way. A few days later, we were driving all over New Mexico and trying to remember what …