The Flynn effect is over. That’s the trend whereby human intelligence increases by about 3 points a decade. Recent research reveals the trend is in reverse. Humans are getting dumber.  Scientists speculate the reasons are varied:  changes in our education systems, nutrition, the c

Who reads this blog? This May will begin “Write Away’s” twelfth year, so I’m curious about its audience.  Some subscribers have been with me almost the full time.  The site has never gone viral but its readers seem to be loyal. Few have unsubscribed while visitor numbers gro

As I wrote in a recent blog, one of the big worries in the US stock market is the fallen price of oil. (Blog 1/16/16)  The second worry is China, our trading partner.  When that nation hiccups, investors here pay attention. At the moment the country poses a two-pronged worry.  Firs

Joseph Stiglitz, American economist and winner of the 2001 Nobel Prize in Economics, has written a thought provoking piece in January’s Vanity Fair.  In it, he looks at America’s future now that China has overtaken it as the world’s largest economy.  Most certainly, he predict