The most profitable band that you've never heard on the radio. | Continue reading
The hidden message behind "fake" Latin filler text. | Continue reading
Countless American dudes will attest that the societal obligation to furnish a diamond engagement ring is both stressful and expensive. This obligation was invented by De Beers. | Continue reading
How one man went from writing jokes for Roseanne to homeless, and how he fought his way back using Craigslist. | Continue reading
The story of how Porsche tried and failed miserably at its hostile takeover of Volkswagen. | Continue reading
How should we understand the robust findings that suggest that the price of wine is not only uncorrelated with how much people enjoy it, but that the different tastes we describe in wine may all be in our heads? | Continue reading
What do you get when you mix overfishing and foodie culture? An exercise in rebranding. | Continue reading
Is cannabis cheaper through delivery or at dispensaries during COVID-19? | Continue reading
Why does every nice car in California have a license plate frame from a charity that supports highway patrol officers? They think they'll get out of speeding tickets. | Continue reading
How much of a house's purchase price will the typical annual salary cover in cities across America. | Continue reading
Bootcamp graduates are generally pretty satisfied (unless they end up unemployed or in non-technical roles afterwards). | Continue reading
The story of how Porsche tried and failed miserably at its hostile takeover of Volkswagen. | Continue reading
The history of the Witness Protection Program is full of Hollywood-worthy intrigue. It also challenges our assumptions about crime and identity. | Continue reading
Ignore simple physics and your appendage could be amputated by a tug of war rope. | Continue reading
Americans nearly universally speed, and excess speed is a factor in many accidents. But what if higher speed limits made roads safer? | Continue reading
A 30,000+ word blog post about how to write about information and make it spread. And something new from us: The Priceonomics Data Studio. | Continue reading
Quantifying the devastating impact of COVID-19 on the hourly job market. | Continue reading
In 1984, a man named Michael Larson won $110,237 on "Press Your Luck" — more than double the winnings of any other game show contestant in history at the time. But his success wasn't due to luck alone. | Continue reading
Following a poorly-timed Johnny Carson joke in 1973, millions of Americans hoarded every toilet paper roll on the market and induced a mass hysteria. | Continue reading
Much of the media hype around blockchain has simmered, but the enterprise is still interested. | Continue reading
The most profitable band that you've never heard on the radio. | Continue reading
Do you think breakfast is the most important meal of the day? Then you fell for an ad campaign designed in 1944 to sell more cereal. | Continue reading
How George Soros made his fortune on a daring bet against the British pound and the Bank of England. | Continue reading
Analyzing geospatial data to see which cities have the most solar panels on their roofs. | Continue reading
The task of unlocking the secret alter-egos of words, paragraphs and poetry. | Continue reading
If only you pay someone the current federal minimum wage, there is a 70% chance they will leave within a year. | Continue reading
Analyzing the places with the highest rates of Chlamydia, Gonorrhea, HIV and Syphilis. | Continue reading
55% of the data that companies collect never gets used. | Continue reading
Edsel routinely cussed out patrons, sexually accosted female diners, and unapologetically spilled soup on laps -- and his customers came back for more. | Continue reading
Edsel routinely cussed out patrons, sexually accosted female diners, and unapologetically spilled soup on laps -- and his customers came back for more. | Continue reading
The insane cost of a network outage - per minute! | Continue reading
Pesticides and glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) are in the news again. Where are they most popular in America? | Continue reading
What began as a marketing effort to sell more tires is now the world's most celebrated restaurant guide. It’s a bit like if the Coca-Cola Company ran the Oscars, having created the ceremony so people would go to the movies and drink more soda. | Continue reading
Privately held tech companies with billion dollar valuations can be as young as two years old. | Continue reading
In 1835, a French aristocrat analyzed the trivial, decentralized, and diminished nature of America's newspapers. But he was really complaining about blogs. | Continue reading
Anywhere from $10K to $100MM in compensation at IPO (plus all the equity they already have). | Continue reading
Silicon Valley Bank: the bank of startups? Not according to startup founders. | Continue reading
How one inventor went from making Frisbees to one of the world's best coffeemakers. | Continue reading
Why do companies move office spaces? Mostly because of high growth (but sometimes for the opposite reason). | Continue reading
We analyzed nursing home review data across the country to show shockingly abysmal performance. | Continue reading
Basically, we're the Apple Computers of toilets. | Continue reading
Charting the precipitous decline of the stick shift and figuring out where it's still popular. | Continue reading
Analyzing fund return data from CALpers to show just how much money private equity funds generate. | Continue reading
Facebook makes $1.4 million in gross profit per employee and only ranks #11 in the S&P 500 by this metric. | Continue reading
500 billion plastic bags are used per year around the world. Here's where they've been banned. | Continue reading
An analysis of how much the typical "business" job pays in a city versus rent. | Continue reading
In 1990, Marilyn vos Savant correctly answered a probability puzzle in her column for Parade Magazine. And then, the world called her an idiot. | Continue reading
Which industries generate the most revenue per employee and how do tech companies stack up? | Continue reading