Plumbing is usually boring.

Trust the Canadians to produce a game about mutual funds that is actually more boring than the real thing.

Soldiers willingly, sometimes foolishly, risk their own lives to keep their comrades out of enemy hands.

It's one of the fundamental principles of the stock market: When interest rates go up, stocks go down. And along with financial companies and cyclicals, technology companies - with their sky-high price-to-earnings multiples - should be among the biggest losers in an environment of rising rates.

Climate change might be disastrous, but does that mean we want carbon taxes that raise the price of a gallon of heating oil to $10? And how exactly will those taxes affect economic growth?

Big swings in the wholesale price of electricity are not unusual in the summer, when high demand taxes generators' ability to supply power.