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May 10, 2013 Like people in other countries that have gone through economic turmoil, people in Myanmar want U.S. dollars that look like they just rolled off the presses.

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March 29, 2013 Instead, say it's from the "Outer Coastal Plain." (It's part of a plan to kick the state's reputation for making cheap wine.)

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February 25, 2013 The key selling point is all the things it doesn't do. No Internet, no video, no music.

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February 22, 2013 The Amish don't drive and don't connect to the electrical grid. Yet a growing number of Amish people are leaving farming for manufacturing. That means they need tools — and power.

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February 15, 2013 "We should think of doctors the same way we think of shirts," an economist says. "If we can get doctors at a lower cost from elsewhere in the world then we could save enormous amounts of money."

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February 4, 2013 Unions in China are typically controlled by management and the government. A union run by democratic vote of the workers would be a huge shift.

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December 13, 2012 For punishments to work, they need to be both swift and meaningful. The HSBC settlement may be neither.

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