Sam Vaknin is the author of Malignant Self Love - Narcissism Revisited and After the Rain - How the West Lost the East. He served as a columnist for Central Europe Review, Global Politician, PopMatters, and eBookWeb , and Bellaonline, and as a United Press International (UPI) Senior Business Correspondent. He is the the editor of mental health and Central East Europe categories in The Open Directory and Suite101.

No one likes prophets because they are justified in uttering: "I told you so!"

Sports fulfill numerous psychological functions and needs.

Recessions happen when people cash to any other type of asset or investment.

The bullying of Georgia carries a lesson for small nations.

The crises in Europe and Asia will be protracted and socially pernicious.

Lack of access to the sea cramps economic growth.

Cheap labor is often unproductive and, therefore, actually expensive.

Macedonia's economy is thriving - or, is it merely a sleight of hand?

The students' best friend: Microsoft Student and Encarta Encyclopedia.

Even in Norway, minorities and immigrants are mistreated.

The backwardness of the banking sector in some developing countries guaranteed their survival unscathed.

Paul Krugman is the quintessential activist-economist.

Numerous interacting factors determine the international and domestic prices of oil.

Taxpayers are picking up the tab for the excesses and greed of the financial sector.

Do we really know what happened on September 11, 2001? Some people think not.