For the anniversary of Sept 11 2001 some memories of the time Two days after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center I made my way to one of the emergency trauma centers in Manhattan It had been hastily set up in a cavernous sports facility called Chelsea Piers on the Hudson River I h

Yesterday afternoon Planet Money deemed the widespread comment these days that Sovereign credit spreads in Europe are widening the scariest boring phrase nbsp in finance A credit spread is the difference between the interest rate on credit for the best economies and worst nbsp A widening cred

Coincidences occur when reading thinking and writing Several weeks ago my fellow Jim Keane S J launched a discussion on what history would have been like if John F Kennedy had not been elected president For several years I rsquo ve begun to read an occasional book from the genre of alternativ

This year world-wide celebrations commemorate the 400th anniversary of the death of Matteo Ricci the remarkable Italian Jesuit pioneer of cross-cultural understanding who opened China to the west and vice versa Ricci and the early Jesuit missionaries fostered a notion of salvific globalization

Here is our latest offering from Mirada Global an analysis of politics in Mexico on the anniversary of the country s founding Due to its deeply conservative nature the Mexican government is unable to face the Independence and the Revolution that marked the history of this country Questioned beca

One of the hardest lessons of the Great Recession has been accepting the fact that one need not have done anything imprudent excessive or unlawful to find oneself a victim of it anyway If you did not let your credit card debt mount precariously or take out a mortgage beyond your means or connive