Gold bugs now face a unique opportunity to profit from the fluctuations in the markets. But in order to understand this it is necessary to understand the relation between economics and politics. The decline in gold from mid-July to mid-August was brutal,

When John McCain cited Theodore Roosevelt in a recent interview with the New York Times, many disagreed with his presidential pick, writes National Review Online .

BOOK TALK....I've been reading an unusually large number of current events books lately (aka "books that publishers send me for free"), and although there have a couple of clunkers in the lot, several of them have been very good. I've...

"Your whole argument is based on a flawed premise. You seem to believe that the lack of overt discrimination is what creates an equal society. But that's far from the truth. In actuality, inequality breeds discrimination which perpetuates inequality."

The latest Occam's razor award goes to Her Majesty the Queen. In the unlikely surroundings of the London School of Economics, she last week cut to the quick. Describing the credit crunch as "awful", she tapped a gilded economist on the proverbial shoul