this is an adventure

It is almost ten years to the day that I stood in this city and gave an address at the height of the Kosovo crisis. In that speech, I set out what I described as a doctrine of international community that sought to justify intervention, including if necessary military intervention, not only when a nation’s […]

President Obama rebuffed calls for a commission to investigate alleged abuses under the Bush administration in fighting terrorism, telling congressional leaders at a White House meeting yesterday that he wants to look forward instead of litigating the past.

CLEVELAND — When federal regulators forced National City Corp. to sell itself in October, the head of another struggling bank right across the street watched from his office window as television crews swarmed. “That could be us,” Robert Goldberg, AmTrust Financial Corp.’s chief executive at the time, recalls worrying.

We are in a weird age. Do the smart thing, we were told, and invest in a 401(k) retirement account. Buy into the American dream and own your own home. But lately it seems that those who put their money in low-earning passbook savings accounts or rented rather than buying may have been better off.