In a move that will make the Internet more accessible to millions of users, Egypt today became the first country to apply for an officially registered domain name using non-Latin script.Information T

This week’s review comes to you in a shortened format as I’m about to leave Cape Town for a visit to the colder environs of Switzerland and Slovenia. Although reduced commentary is provid

In the wee hours of the morning, a few stories broke that led to a commodities rally, a dollar whacking, and finally a stock rally. The first came from the down under as the Reserve Bank of

Surprise, surprise, surprise -- not: The oil-hype story as discussed in Ten Reasons to Ignore the Hype Over Secret Oil Meetings has blown sky high already, just hours after I wrote it.Russia Denies T

Crude Oil in Focus Crude oil is up a second consecutive day, helped in part by a weaker dollar. Arab nations, along with China, Russia, Japan, and France, were reported to be secretly discussing a mo

  Once upon a time, Dubai existed as a vast desert of nothingness, inhabited by Bedouins and pearl divers. But then they built it, and they came. And then they left.

You can usually measure the cultural significance of a piece of architecture by how many times it’s been blown up in the movies. The Chrysler Building, for example, was struck by a meteor i

Friedrich A. Hayek (1899-1992), Austrian economist, author and 1974 Nobel Prize-winner for Economics wrote: “With the exception only of the period of the gold standard, practically all governme

Over the past decade, Bentley’s hand-crafted British 6-figure vehicles have been a favorite among those who can afford them. And perhaps no car brand has the same pop culture cache: Bruce Wayne

Words from the Wise this week comes to you in a shortened format as I don’t have access to my normal research resources while on the road in Europe (also see my post Gone AWOL -- to Slovenia an