Judging by the financial market's renewed unease about Italy and Spain over the past week it would seem that all that the European Central Bank's €1 trillion liquidity injection in the European banking system bought was around four months of relative market calm.

This ban is a political vote. It has nothing to do with science or health. It does not mean that BPA has been shown to be harmful.

While it’s sometimes hard to distinguish the crackpot from the consequential, many sober scientists believe that even far-out schemes are worth exploring, considering the alternatives.

The Big Three U.S. automakers need more than an injection of $25 billion from the federal government.

Though efforts to reduce global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have faltered, there do exist other climate policy options that may offer timely and relatively cheap methods for offsetting some of the harmful effects of climate change.

The world saw such extraordinary uncertainty in 2011 that a simple failure to repeat that debilitating climate of uncertainty in 2012 may engender a moderate recovery, especially in the US economy.

Stuart A. Cohen's work stands the test of time and provides a handy reference for what remains an understudied period.

Only more capital can solve a capital problem.