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Everyone has irrational fears; it’s an outgrowth of the way our brains are wired. We can’t help it any more than we can help how tall we are, or the …

TALIBAN TAKES FLIGHT: The Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for an attack at the country’s largest and busiest airport. This fans the flames of instability in nuclear-armed Pakistan, and again raises the …

A lot has been made about the role of immigration in Eric Cantor’s defeat in reliably conservative VA-07, and there’s no denying that was a factor. Yet immigration may only …

I never attempt to make money on the stock market. I buy on the assumption that they could close the market the next day and not reopen it for five …

In two separate national polls, 55% of Americans believe former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden did the right thing when he revealed the existence of a widespread government surveillance …

The theory of “good debt” really started before the Great Recession, and generally applied to student loans and mortgage debt. In those days it was easy to assume the value …

If you scour the prose of contemporary economists, you’ll invariably encounter murkiness and subterfuge. President Truman was all too aware of the problem when he said “give me a one-handed …

“Why can’t we have music like that here in America?” — from a 1963 letter written by 15-year-old Beatles fan to a Washington, DC disc jockey The greatest irony in the history …

Back in 2009 the German central bank, the Bundesbank, announced they were concerned they hadn’t been paying enough attention to their gold reserves stored in overseas central banks. It’s not …

In Turkey, grief-stricken family members and friends wait outside hospital entrances in the hopes of seeing their loved ones come out alive. A coal mine near Soma, a town in Western Turkey, exploded into …