Outstanding interest-only mortgages put older people at risk
One in three over 70's with mortgages have interest-only mortgages with no linked investment and 13 per cent of older people with mortgages are struggling to make repayments on their home. These are...
View ArticlePrismatic social network follows interests
Prismatic chief Bradford Cross believes that online social networks should go beyond following people to pursuing interests.
View ArticleLinkedIn posts solid 4Q, but outlook disappoints
LinkedIn finished last year with a solid financial performance, but the online professional networking service spooked investors with a forecast indicating that its growth is starting to slow down.
View ArticleGutting of campaign finance laws enhances influence of corporations and...
Affluent individuals and business corporations already have vastly more influence on federal government policy than average citizens, according to recently released research by Princeton University and...
View ArticleState of the nation's egotism: On the rise for a century
Forget the "me" generation. A new analysis of long-term trends in egotism shows there's been a "me" century in America.
View ArticlePublic interest in climate change unshaken by scandal, but unstirred by science
The good news for any passionate supporter of climate-change science is that negative media reports seem to have only a passing effect on public opinion, according to Princeton University and...
View ArticleFacebook offers users control on ads viewed (Update)
Facebook said Thursday it would begin allowing users more information about the ads delivered to them, and to block marketing messages they don't want to see.
View ArticleTax benefits for housing not as outsized as previously thought, study says
New research co-written by a University of Illinois expert in urban economics indicates that tax benefits for housing, including the ever-popular mortgage interest deduction and the property tax...
View ArticleThe unexpected benefits of adjustable rate mortgages
Using loan level data matched to consumer credit records, researchers have been able to determine that a reduction in mortgage payments of as little as $150 a month spurred a reduction in mortgage...
View ArticleSolving the puzzle of cooperation in group environments
Research has shown that when two individuals meet repeatedly they are more likely to cooperate with one another. Flávio Pinheiro and colleagues from the Universities of Minho and Lisbon show that the...
View ArticlePublic participation should be at the heart of big data projects
Public participation should be at the heart of big data projects in health care and biomedical research, according to the findings of a new report by the Nuffield Council on Bioethics. The report calls...
View ArticleStudy reveals how to encourage men to give to the poor
A new Stanford study offers ideas on how to encourage men to donate money and time to charitable causes.
View ArticleData retention plan amended for journalists, but is it enough?
The House of Representatives has finally passed the third tranche of national security legislation, concerning the mandatory retention of all Australians' data when they use telecommunications services.
View ArticleStudy: Polarization in Congress is worsening... and it stifles policy innovation
American politics has grown so polarized in recent years that there's hardly any cooperation at all across the aisle, but the process that brought us here started long ago. Disagreements have been...
View ArticleAfter 15 years, Nasdaq recoups losses of dot-com crash
Mark April 23, 2015 as the day the Nasdaq market finally left the dot-com crash, and billions of dollars lost to the first technology bubble, behind.
View ArticleInternet use translates into greater economic than social benefits
Using the internet helps people benefit financially in the 'real world', but not necessarily socially, according to research from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), the...
View ArticleBuyers' readiness to take risk is top cause for volatility in US house prices
The cliché version of the American dream usually involves getting married, finding a good job, raising 2.5 kids and buying a home with a white picket fence.
View ArticleResearch tracks relationships between CEO greed and company performance
That gut feeling many workers, laborers and other underlings have about their CEOs is spot on, according to three recent studies in the Journal of Management, the Journal of Management Studies and the...
View ArticleBusinesses don't always get what they want, but try to get what they need
Although most citizens tend to believe that big business owns Washington D.C., a team of researchers suggests that business may have a less dominant and more complicated relationship with government...
View ArticleNew study to investigate impact of lobbying
Academics at the University of Exeter will investigate how policy is influenced by lobbying in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands and Germany to see which kinds of groups may have unfair access because...
View ArticleLawmakers might introduce 'anti-evolution' legislation to appease religious...
New research from Rice University theorizes that "anti-evolution" education legislation continues to be introduced because lawmakers want to appease religious constituents, not because they expect the...
View ArticleCourts of old Istanbul yield insights on modern poverty
Few might think to seek insights on Middle Eastern conflict or modern poverty in court records of the Ottoman empire. Yet when Duke University economist Timur Kuran combed through those centuries-old...
View ArticleLack of secure investments is hindering growth globally, research finds
Unless you've been following the subject closely, you may not have heard of one of the biggest barriers slowing the revival of global economic growth over the last decade. That would be the "safety...
View ArticleAdjusting exchange rates affects currency value
Forthcoming research from Cass Business School and the Bank of International Settlements has found that newly proposed currency valuation metrics display strong predictive power for exchange rates,...
View ArticleInternet data could boost conservation
Businesses routinely use internet data to learn about customers and increase profits - and similar techniques could be used to boost conservation.
View ArticleAmericans missed out on $5.4 billion by not refinancing, study says
American homeowners could have recently had $5.4 billion more in their pockets. However, they don't because they failed to refinance their mortgages when they should have, according to a new study...
View ArticleEnsuring carpoolers are compatible is key to ridesharing success
Ensuring that would-be carpoolers are riding with people they actually like could potentially decrease car use by nearly 60 per cent, research from a professor at the University of Waterloo has found.
View ArticleResearchers find support for redistribution is a function of compassion,...
Economic redistribution has been a core political dispute around the world for centuries. And while intuitively fairness seems a natural explanation for why people support redistribution, researchers...
View ArticleEnsuring the survival of elephants in Laos: A matter of economics
Asian elephant populations in Laos, which are under a process of commodification, have dropped by half in the last 30 years. According to researchers from CNRS and the French Beauval Nature association...
View ArticleOffice-sharing startup WeWork announces tie-up with Meetup
Office-sharing startup WeWork on Tuesday announced a deal to buy Meetup, an online social network devoted to organizing real-world activities based on common interests.
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