McMegan restates the obvious : But how sympathetic is the US taxpayer supposed to be? We pay for their military protection, we pay for the ...

-- Spain is in very bad shape . -- Italy is in very, very bad shape . -- Japan is in very, very, very bad shape . (Japan, Italy, and Spain ...

The current G-20 summit, like most, is often big on headlines but short on substance. There are the requisite anti-everything protests , the...

Catchy and just a little bit creepy KPC

What if you had to choose between saving large swaths of humanity from a "nasty, brutish, and short" existence and protecting the...

And their market value. The corpses are in gray. It's easy to see why Europe has been hit so hard by the credit crunch and liquidity tro...

Czech Premier Mirek Topolanek does not like the $2tn effort by the Obama administration to stimulate the U.S. economy. He does not like it o...

Yesterday I complained that the left-leaning economists in the blogosphere were conspicuous in their absence from the AIG punitive tax deba...

Check out this interesting read on new findings about how humans conceptualize of and are motivated by money. Basically, humans seem to adh...

Q. How do you simultaneously achieve all of the following? 1. Encourage excessive risk-taking in the financial sector when sobriety is desir...