"Equal pay for equal work should be a fundamental principle of our economy," bellowed President Obama on Tuesday while commemorating Equal Pay Day. "It's the idea that ...
Thirty years ago, a taxi driver in Mexico City taught me, though I cannot remember the exact context in which he did so, some lines from Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, the learned ...
"It blew the doors off what we thought we knew about depression treatment." So said psychiatrist James Murrough of New York's Mount Sinai Hospital, in reference to a ...
Yes, the Daily Mail has too many typos and stopped displaying correctly on Firefox last week"and somehow nobody in charge of captions recognized impossible-to-miss future ...
The Bahamas"A calm swath of turquoise sea protected by a hundred-mile string of islands and cays delimit the Atlantic's blue-dark depths, to the east: an organic barrier as ...
"The peculiar essence of our financial system is an unprecedented trust between man and man; and when that trust is much weakened by hidden causes, a small accident may ...
"Narco money is the foundation of the modern financial system." These are the words of Viktor Ivanov, head of the Federal Drug Control Service of Russia. In a speech ...
Stop me if you"ve heard this one before: There are some jobs Americans won"t do. Therefore, we need Third World labor to come pick up the slack. If I had a nickel for ...
Since 2008 the world has seen a good number of corporate catastrophes. So many, in fact, that a new subgenre of journalism called financial disaster tourism was invented by ...
A quick look at last week's global financial news might easily mislead a reader to panic under the overriding negative sentiment of a sector not yet able to forget the nightmare ...
Speaking before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, the embattled ex-CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, Martin Shkreli, defended his choice to increase the price of ...
In a week of uniformly bad news for the capital markets, certain keywords repeated across the media. Signifiers like contagion, fear, or shock linger in the mind like echoes of a ...
January 2016. A hard landing for world markets and the world economy. Leading indicator the Baltic Dry Index, which measures the cost of chartering a cargo ship, fell to an ...
Twenty years ago, Samuel Huntington published his game-changing book The Clash of Civilizations. A Jan. 8, 2016, analysis by Stratfor correspondent Eugene Chausovsky shows that ...
In 1974, the legendary Western director Sam Peckinpah made a small masterpiece entitled Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. El Jefe, a Mexican "boss man" protected by a ...
Last week we wrapped on the possibility that bitcoin (BTC) might be backed by gold or another asset class, although gold and BTC have a special affinity in that they are both ...
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