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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 …

Right now, there are about 170,000 metric tonnes, or about 187,000 tons, of gold above ground on the planet Earth. If it were all melted down and cast into a …

Sometimes it’s impossible to avoid staying at a hotel, especially when you’re traveling for work. Business travel can cement the hotel mentality, overlooking a world of lodging possibilities that are …

Probably because the very idea of suicide is repellent to us, we tend to think of it as being rare. In fact, suicide is more common than we’d like to …

We live in a world where you can’t speak your mind on a number of social, racial, religious, and political matters. You can add food to that list. That’s because there are …

Minutes ago Adam Silver, commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), announced that the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, Donald Sterling, is banned for life from all NBA …

A recent Associated Press poll revealed that a majority of Americans aren’t sure whether the Big Bang Theory, which postulates that everything was created in a massive expansion at the …

North Korea’s security thugs have arrested their third foreign tourist in the past six months — but this one was an American seeking to defect to the Communist nation. According …

As you get older you develop a love/hate relationship with the medical profession. There is love because, at some point, they’re going to save your life. The hate comes from …

Being Easter weekend, this seemed like a good time to set aside financial matters for a change and talk about quality of life. If you’re like most people, you’ve felt …