Economy 4.0's David Brancaccio looks at how community banks help communities and an idea on how governments can better support them.

Happiness — being subjective and all — isn't the easiest thing to measure. But Britain is about to try. The nation announced it will execute a happiness index, asking citizens about their well-being, to be released alongside other economic indices. Economy 4.0's David Brancaccio talks about the details.

There is word that Britain's center-right coalition government wants to make the happiness and well-being of the British public part of the…

It is one thing when a newbie politician like incoming Kentucky Senator Rand Paul calls for a return to the gold standard. It is more of a shock …

A Big Mac can do much more than satiate our appetite for burgers that require three pieces of bread: it can give us a lens through which to compa…

Which are the best-off and the worst-off countries? The United Nations released its latest Human Development Index. It's a ranking of well-being across the globe and the United States is getting a demotion. As Economy 4.0 correspondent David Brancaccio reports, we are getting dinged for our economic inequality.

Occam's Razor is the principle that the simplest explanation is tends to be the best. When it comes to measuring severe deprivation around the wo…

Want to see just how half-empty your country's economic glass is? It's as simple as calculating the Misery Index….

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is starting to get organized, and it may begin to look toward citizens to help it out. It's a crowd-sourcing idea — with people using online technology to report wrongdoings.

Elizabeth Warren is the guiding force behind the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau – now under construction in Washington. This week, she shar…