October 14, 2013 - 4:04am
If you want to honor today's Nobel laureates in economics , turn off CNBC and ignore everyone who says they know what the stock market is going to do today, tomorrow, or next week. The award went to three economists — Eugene F. Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert J...
October 14, 2013 - 3:50am
Three American professors have won the 2013 Nobel Prize for Economics for their work in identifying long-term trends in the prices of stocks and bonds, based in part on analyzing the role of risk. Professors Robert J. Shiller of Yale University and Eugene F. Fama and Lars Peter Hansen, both...
October 14, 2013 - 2:43am
Somebody should be watching Daniela Rus and her pals at MIT, because what they are doing is so crazy, so potentially important, people need to know about them. Not because they're dangerous, but because what they're doing might be changing the world and nobody should change the world without the...
October 14, 2013 - 2:33am
It's Columbus Day, and here are our early stories: -- How The Debt Limit Became 'A Nuclear-Tipped Leverage Point'. -- So What's The Real Deadline For Obamacare Sign-Up? And here are more early headlines: Nobel Prize In Economics Awarded To Three Americans. ( New York Times ) Little Progress In...
October 14, 2013 - 2:29am
Americans Eugene Fama, Lars Peter Hansen and Robert Shiller won the Nobel prize for economics on Monday for developing new methods to study trends in asset markets. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said the three had laid the foundation of the current understanding of asset prices. While it's hard...
October 13, 2013 - 11:00pm
Political battles over the debt limit have been around nearly as long as the law passed by Congress in 1917 that set a statutory limit for how much debt the Treasury could accrue. Since then, Congress has had to increase that limit on more than 100 occasions — and 40...
October 13, 2013 - 11:00pm
The health exchanges are now open, though some have a lot of glitches. You still have lots of questions about how the Affordable Care Act affects you and your family. And we have answers. In our ongoing series, we're addressing questions you've asked about the sign-up process. With people having...
October 13, 2013 - 11:00pm
Kenya's deputy president William Ruto is back before the International Criminal Court in The Hague on Monday. He and his boss, President Uhuru Kenyatta, face charges of instigating and financing deadly tribal violence in Kenya after that country's disputed 2007 election. But their cases might never have reached this stage...
October 13, 2013 - 11:00pm
NPR continues a series of conversations about The Race Card Project , where thousands of people have submitted their thoughts on race and cultural identity in six words. Every so often NPR Host/Special Correspondent Michele Norris will dip into those six-word stories to explore issues surrounding race and cultural identity...
October 13, 2013 - 11:00pm
If you're among the estimated 27 million Americans who suffer from osteoarthritis of the knee or hip, then perhaps you've tried the nutritional supplements glucosamine and chondroitin. They've been marketed for joint health for about 20 years, and sales are still brisk. But do they help? Some horses might say...
