Concerned citizens can now track government spending at USASpending.gov. Users can view current and historical spending on contracts, grants, and loans, broken down by characteristics like...

I took the family to last night's Yankees-Mets game at the new Citi Field. We had a great time despite the very late hour. (More on that later.) This was the final game of the season between the crosstown rivals. Interleague play means that lots...

Home prices continue to fall, dropping another 18.7 percent in March. The price plunge is being blamed in part on the glut of cheap, foreclosed homes on the market. How cheap are these homes?...

What a boom it was! So much so that I just noticed a local Philly contractor, perhaps more honest than most, who named his business "Bubble Builders." In a sign of the times, I haven't...

Listeners of "The Numbers" segment on NPR's Marketplace, a daily recap of the stock market's action, thought its upbeat version of "We're in the Money" as background music is inappropriate for the...

For the 20-year period ending in 2007, the Los Angeles Lakers' NBA championship record did a surprisingly good job of reflecting the stock market.

Who owns the rights to an air space and to a view? What are property rights in such cases? An article in our local paper discusses complaints of residents in a luxury condo complex who are insisting that the City Council help pay the $75,000 it would...

What was Stanford statistics student Ryan Tibshirani to do when his buddies kept beating him at darts?

The second chapter of SuperFreakonomics, which is primarily about catching terrorists and running an emergency room, includes a few passages about the timing quirks of births and deaths.

If you're in Times Square on Saturday, Dec. 19, keep an eye out for SuperFreakonomics on the Dow Jones news zipper. A piece of Freakonomics schwag will go to the first person who sends us a photo of the book's name up in lights.