by Aseem Gupta | Jan 8, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
English is a strange language because it remembers its invaders. You can ask someone to “come in,” or you can invite them to “enter.” You can talk about a “kingly” duty, or a “royal” one. You can “buy” something, or you can “purchase” it. You can raise a cow in a...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 7, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
There is a version of this story that sounds almost too ridiculous to be true. Two countries play a football match. The fans riot. National pride boils over. A few days later, the armies march. That is how the 1969 war between Honduras and El Salvador is usually...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 6, 2016 | History, Empires & Civilizations
Introduction: A Small War That Was Never Small At first glance, the Falklands War can look almost absurd. A short war. A remote archipelago. A British task force sailing 8,000 miles across the Atlantic. An Argentine dictatorship trying to recover islands most of its...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 5, 2016 | Economics, Markets & Money
The Great Depression is often remembered as an American disaster: Wall Street crashed, banks failed, breadlines grew, and the United States sank into the worst economic crisis of the modern age. But the Depression did not stay American. Across Europe, it became...
by Aseem Gupta | Jan 4, 2016 | Economics, Markets & Money
The Crisis Was Bigger Than a Housing Crash The 2008 financial crisis is often described as a housing crash. That is true, but only in the same way a heart attack is a blood-flow problem. Technically correct. Not nearly enough. The crisis began with houses, mortgages,...
