NEWSER DRUGS BUSTS ARE 4 TIMES AS HIGH AS NEXT CLOSEST NATIONAL PARK Ah, Yosemite: That iconic symbol of nature where generations of tourists have hiked, snapped pictures, camped, and … smoked a lot of weed? As NBC...

Ever been racially profiled? NPYD Admits Stop And Frisk Is Race Based For years, the debate over the New York Police Department’s use of stop-and-frisk tactics has centered on whether officers engage in racial profiling. Now, a...

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said today that the looming cuts associated with the sequester are a “bad idea all around,” advocating a replacement solution that includes a mix of spending cuts and revenue through closing...

CBS’s Rebecca Jarvis had a brief profile on billionaire Warren Buffett this morning. Among other things, they discussed the history of inequality in America and the world. “The womb from which you emerge determines your fate to...

In business school I had to take an introductory class in statistics that we colloquially called “D&D.” The official course name was Data & Decision-making. In retrospect, it was a truly valuable class (one of very few...

The surprise of the week was not the goofy ending to the cliff. It was the minutes from the Fed. The meeting in question took place on 12/12, just 23 days ago. Some very major announcements came...

The hot read in Euro-economics this week was a note from UBS’ Paul Donovan titled Who wins with the Euro? (Both ZeroHedge and FT Alpha have written about it) The question is controversial, because there’s some insinuation...

Last year it was the debt ceiling negotiations. This year its the fiscal cliff, political pressure on the Federal Reserve, and the complete inability of Congress to pass anything resembling a jobs bill.  Partisan gridlock is the...

Jeff Saut, Chief Investment Strategist for Raymond James, thinks Europe recently took some steps in the right direction in addressing its debt crisis. “I think Europe took a step in the right direction a couple of weeks...

There are a number of issues I want to discuss here at Future Brief, but there is one that is annoying. I hear it constantly raised by so many commentators as a critical issue to our global...