Monty Python

For many people, Spam is a culinary joke, the ultimate example of cheap, dead-end cuisine. Perhaps its most famous pop-culture moment came in a Monty Python skit, in which every menu item in a cruddy, crowded cafeteria came with a side order of the ubiquitous pink product. Arguably, however, it has...

Dr. Richard Batista and his wife, Dawnell Batista, are going through a nasty divorce. This, in itself, is not particularly surprising or abnormal; millions of people go through divorces every day, and neither the fact of the divorce, nor the immediate details are particularly uncommon. Dawnell,...

In the best of times, it's easy to imagine that commodities and currencies are stable, unchanging things. After all, if gold was worth $400 an ounce yesterday, there is no reason to imagine that it will be worth a great deal more or less tomorrow. Similarly, if the dollar was able to buy a certain...