"Throughout the eighteenth-century hundreds of thousands of men and women were cast into prison for failing to pay their debts. This apparently illogical system where debtors were kept away from their places of work remained popular with creditors into the nineteenth century even as Britain...

This article provides direct information on the levels and trends of Nitrogen oxides and Particulate matter in the city of Venice (Italy), enables some general considerations about air pollution extent and the effects of adopted mitigation strategies undertaken by the city Municipality. The main...

"Collateral damaged" explains how America had turned from a nation of savers into a nation of consumers addicted to debt. Wall Street then used that addiction to create "toxic securities" that threaten to bring about the collapse of the global economy. How can America get its fiscal house in...