It shouldn’t be news when a wealthy person donates money to a cause, and in many ways it isn’t. Yet, once in a while the cause is the highlight. Pierre Omydyar, founder of eBay, will through the Clinton Global Initiative invest $55-million in technology to promote government transparency and also to help people rise out…

Less than a month after the demise of Lehman Brothers Iceland’s banking sector had a meltdown in September 2008. Geir Haarde the then prime minister nationalized the 3 largest banks in an effort to stabilize the situation but the Atlantic Island nation ended up with billions of dollar in debt instead. Haarde was ousted in…

Stephen Hawking has been called the greatest mind alive or the greatest since Einstein. Perhaps I do not know how to recognize a great mind, but I have a problem with a thought from his new book, that something can come from nothing and that the universe did not therefore need god to come into…