Brendan Greeley

Answer that question, and you get a picture of inflation in the whole economy. We try to figure out why ice cream hasn't changed its price in years, and why it might finally rise this summer.

Brendan Greeley, staff writer for Bloomberg Businessweek, looks at the reinsurance industry and how it assesses catastrophic risks, like terrorism and global climate change in his cover article, "The God Clause and the Reinsurance Industry."

The online group "Anonymous" has no official leadership; planning sessions for "Operation Payback" happen in semi-public online chat servers, run by volunteer coordinators. How does this hive-minded group make decisions about who or what to target? Journalist Brendan Greeley, from The Economist, managed to connect to one of their planning sessions.