We did it together!

We did it. You can too.

How did we let it happen?

Born and raised on the outskirts of London, England, Joellyn Sheehy was home educated until her late teens, when she traveled to the U.S.A. for a year of high school and eventually college. She graduated summa cum laude from Union College in May 2014 with a B.S. degree in International Rescue and Relief and is presently employed with the college’s academic administration. Her areas of study inc...

Risk-taking by banks: What did we know and when did we know it?

The systematic risk of US commercial bank stocks more than doubled from 2000 to 2006, primarily due to their increased residential mortgage exposure. Higher levels of mortgage lending produced better earnings but relatively lower stock returns. Banks engaged heavily in mortgage lending encountered less enthusiastic market response to their earnings announcements, suggesting that financial marke...

9 / 11 : What Did We Know and When Did We Know It ?

In February 1998, Osama Bin Laden published a signed statement calling for a fatwa against the United States for its having “declared war against God.” As we now know, the fatwa resulted in the unprecedented attack of 9/11. The issue of whether or not 9/11 was in any way predictable culminated in the public debate between Richard Clarke, former CIA Director George Tenet and the White House. We ...

We may not have it all together, but together we have it all. The importance of intra- and interdisciplinary collaboration

The tremendous development of knowledge, the accumulation of clinical experience, and the enriching of everyday practice with the results of basic and clinical research created the need for splitting medicine in specialities and sub-specialities. Although this evolution is inevitable in order to meet the complex needs and demands of patients, we have to be aware of the risk of neglecting the ho...