by BILL WADDELL Imagine you run a lemonade stand in front of your house, and you do pretty well at it.  Now suppose I live a thousand miles away from…

by BILL WADDELL My mother was proud to see me head off long ago to Saint Xavier High School in Cincinnati - an expensive, Jesuit school with demandin…

By Kevin Meyer In this edition of Fun With Statistics we explore the gender ratio and a couple of surprising impacts.  This morning's Wall Street…

By Kevin Meyer The Bloomberg Businessweek cover story on the U.S. Postal Service a couple weeks ago was a real stunner - filled with so many juicy ti…

by BILL WADDELL I'm sure the warning is too late, and as we speak St Peter is completely overwhelmed with the urgency of applying the Theory of C…

by BILL WADDELL What do you get when you combine five bankers, McKinsey and a CEO who knows nothing but marketing? Propriety prevents me from getting…

by BILL WADDELL A year ago I wrote about the sad story of the Simmons Mattress company, a well run outfit that got caught in the cross hairs of the i…

By Kevin Meyer I wasn't planning on wading into this whole Representative Anthony Weiner fiasco but the rationalization by his apologists has jus…