Economists as a lot are a curious group of people. Their most useful function is arguably predicting and preventing financial collapses. Yet, these academics who gain so much notoriety and traction during times of financial …

In 2009, the now infamous private security firm, Blackwater, incongruously renamed itself after the noble gas Xenon. The new name, Xe (pronounced Zee), purportedly signaled a change in scope of the organization away from US-funded …

Modern health care in America has four parties: patients, insurers, drug companies and device manufacturers, and doctors. Congress and the Obama administration made a political calculation in health care reform legislation to appease two of …

The world economies sputtered forward through most of 2009 despite warnings of a total economic paralysis. Those who invested long in equities and commodities and short the US dollar were handsomely rewarded. But 2009 will …

Abide your Lord, Exodus tells us. For God will test your faith one day and smite you for your sins. But exactly who was being tested here by their God? Was Halliburton testing the Republican wing or were trial lawyers testing the Democrats? And what about the real victim here, Jamie Leigh Jones. Will this help or hurt her case?