When JPMorgan lost $6.2 billion in what is now called the “ London Whale” it was in the context of world news, a beep, mentioned but not much talked about. Now that the report from the Senate inquiry into the trading loss has been released, the beep is a bit louder but so far doesn’t…

The result of a survey conducted on behalf of The Center for Biological Diversity, a non-profit environmental group, shows that 59% of those polled believe that population growth is important to environmental issues. Since population growth is often not a popular subject, other environmental groups have shied away from linking it to environmental concerns, but…

I don’t mind that there are 1426 billionaires in the world (83 of them members of China’s parliament). Given a total world population of 7 billion people, that is a small fraction. I don’t mind that the richest is Carlos Slim, the Mexican oil magnate with a fortune of $73 billion, in a country where…