School is back in session, and in honor of that, theMotley Fool Answersduo ofAlison Southwick and former middle-school teacher Robert Brokamp are taking you back to the classroom -- virtually speaking ...

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‘I love the act of mixing a cocktail in a decorative beaker with a long bar spoon,” Michael Ruhlman writes in his latest brief book. “As one bartender told me, part of the pleasure of a cocktail is ...

As my first semester of college comes to a close, it is astonishing to look back on all that I’ve learned. However, despite not taking a math class this semester, one thing that I seemed to learn a ...

A commonly calculated measure of bank productivity is the efficiency ratio: noninterest expense/(net interest income + noninterest income). Banks routinely include the results in their quarterly and ...

My colleague Joni Lakin, Assistant Professor at Auburn University, sends me her latest paper titled “Sex differences in reasoning abilities: Surprising evidence that male-female ratios in the tails of ...