tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59216761195229721202012-02-17T07:33:56.574ZUnpopular OpinionGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.comBlogger9911100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-90958359886517112302012-02-17T07:33:00.000Z2012-02-17T07:33:56.677ZMy Weltanschhaung - 17/02/2012I am glad to read that the Vatican has at last been forced to cough up some taxes from the income it generates. Though I was shocked that they were exempt from taxes this far.
I am surprised that David Cameron will offer Scots more devolved power if they vote No in the forthcoming referendum. I thought why not devolve more powers before the referendum and therefore give yourself a better chance Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-54077687978873122452012-02-16T13:25:00.000Z2012-02-16T13:25:34.500ZEU closer to India trade dealBy
Bari Bates in Asia Times OnlineBRUSSELS - Behind closed doors,
a trade deal affecting a fifth of the world's
population has been quietly in the works for
years. But while details of the free trade
agreement (FTA) between the European Union Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-54371782144757690332012-02-16T07:29:00.000Z2012-02-16T07:29:19.152ZThe callous cruelty of the EU is destroying Greece
Peter Oborne in The Telegraph
For all of my adult life, support for the European Union has been seen as the
mark of a civilised, reasonable and above all compassionate politician. It
has guaranteed him or her access to leader columns, TV studios, lavish
expense accounts and overseas trips.
The reason for this special treatment is that the British establishment has
tended to Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-34358814451060590062012-02-16T06:52:00.000Z2012-02-16T07:48:29.219ZMy Weltanschhaung - 16/02/2012The EU troika, after shifting the 'austerity' goal posts for Greece are now willing to let Greece quit the Euro. So let's hope that Greece will not have to implement the austerity measures if it quits the Euro.
Israel and its allies will only be happy after a war with Iran.
What has the world come to - Sun journalists who had hitherto never left an opportunity to criticise the EU, now plan toGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-45908962437566273772012-02-15T11:48:00.002Z2012-02-15T11:50:39.149ZVoldemort RAP
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-37925565123534040822012-02-15T06:50:00.000Z2012-02-15T06:50:27.766ZCaptaincy
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Ed Smith in Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-68910799128483377542012-02-14T18:06:00.000Z2012-02-14T18:06:14.244ZGrowth And Free Trade: Brain-Dead Dogmas Still Kicking Hard
By Herman Daly
11 February, 2012
Daly News
There are two dogmas
that neoclassical economists must never publicly doubt lest they be
defrocked by their professional priesthood: first, that growth in GDP is
always good and is the solution to most problems; second, that free
international trade is mutually beneficial thanks to the
growth-promoting principle of comparative advantage. These Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-63787023577717930612012-02-14T18:04:00.000Z2012-02-15T16:52:59.822Z'Losing' the world: American decline in perspective, part 1
US foreign policy 'experts' only ever provide an echo chamber for American imperial power. A longer, broader view is necessary
Noam Chomsky for TomDispatch, part of the Guardian Comment Network
guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 14 February 2012
Significant anniversaries are Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-62014259809477337052012-02-14T08:58:00.000Z2012-02-14T09:18:53.722ZMy Weltanschhaung - 14/02/2012Being Valentine's Day, I am reminded of the guy who spoke at IIT-Kharagpur's humour festival - "Yeh Valentine day kya hai? Yeh to ek soone ka hiran hai jo dhanush banane wale companiyon ne bazaar me chhod rakha hai.! Translation, 'This Valentine's Day business is a golden deer released in to the market by firms selling bows'.
I am shocked at the competence of the managers of Jet Airways and Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-39599762799638427322012-02-13T19:53:00.001Z2012-02-13T19:54:24.846ZIs protecting the environment incompatible with social justice?
When Oxfam investigates the question of whether environment conflicts with development, we should take notice
A girl carrying water in Kibera slum,
Nairobi. There is sometimes a clash between environmental policies and
social justice. Photograph: Simon Maina/AFP/Getty Images
By George Monbiot
It is the stick with which the greens are beaten daily: if we
spend money Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-62962491303256376542012-02-13T17:12:00.000Z2012-02-13T17:12:46.723ZSugar: it's time to get real and regulate
The consumption of fructose and sucrose is on the increase – and so are preventable diseases such as Type 2 diabetes
Jacqueline Windh
guardian.co.uk,
Monday 13 February 2012
Last week, a trio of American scientists led by Robert Lustig,
professor of Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-17702356732396778192012-02-13T08:20:00.000Z2012-02-13T08:20:26.943ZMy Weltanschhaung - 13/02/12Our fourteen year old entered the labour market as a newspaper boy today. Welcome to the land of wage slaves son.
The first advert targeting dogs will be aired soon, why not if children can be manipulated then why not pets?
The first British sex change male delivered a child. Bravo. Now all women can undergo a sex change, have children, and compete in the labor market as males.
Greek Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-27021295610491240982012-02-13T07:38:00.000Z2012-02-13T07:38:54.563ZThe true value of money – or why you can't fart a crashing plane back into the sky
Banknotes aren't worth the paper they're printed on. The entire economy relies on the suspension of disbelief
Charlie Brooker
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-26316081970413561222012-02-12T09:35:00.000Z2012-02-12T09:35:55.184ZThe mathematical equation that caused the banks to crash Ian Stewart in The Observer 21-02-12
It was the holy grail of investors. The Black-Scholes equation,
brainchild of economists Fischer Black and Myron Scholes, provided a
rational way to price a financial contract when it still had time to
run. It was like buying or selling a bet on a horse, halfway through the
race. It opened up a new world of ever more complex investments,
blossoming intoGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-1292813051914340422012-02-11T09:39:00.000Z2012-02-11T09:39:30.526ZLiberal Constipation George Monbiot
Self-deprecating, too liberal for their own good, today’s progressives
stand back and watch, hands over their mouths, as the social
vivisectionists of the right slice up a living society to see if its
component parts can survive in isolation. Tied up in knots of reticence
and self-doubt, they will not shout stop. Doing so requires an act of
interruption, of presumption, Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-38417971433350222632012-02-11T08:09:00.001Z2012-02-11T08:09:50.537ZMy Weltanschhaung - 11/2/2012I am glad that atleast now a few Greek politicos have called the bail out terms extortionate. I think Greeks should default on their loans. Else, where is the risk for the lender who seems to get his money back in all circumstances and even by hurting innocent victims in a society.
A more disturbing news is that Chinese imports (of raw materials, I presume) fell in January. This will worry all Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-33221187072822496172012-02-10T05:58:00.000Z2012-02-10T05:58:07.054ZMy Weltanschhaung - 10/2/2012I am pleased at the new Cameron proposal, - 'Elderly people should be encouraged to go back to work and move into smaller
homes'. Thats one more supply side policy. The principle behind it: the purpose of every human being is to contribute to society until death and the Cameron policy exemplifies it. So retirement will only be for the rich, this policy is a third world policy indeed. But who Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-51313226072831876902012-02-09T06:47:00.000Z2012-02-09T06:47:24.087ZMy Weltanschhaung - 9/2/2012I loved the news, eating fried and sugary stuff for breakfast is the best way to stay trim. Who do I sue if it does not work?
Microchips for dogs is a great idea indeed. But more than that owners should be punished if their dogs are not on leads in a public place.
No one will mourn Capello's departure. I think Capello used Terry's removal as captain as an exceuse to bail out.
Cable v Cameron Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-44721597508833301022012-02-08T15:06:00.000Z2012-02-08T15:06:42.099ZMy Weltanschhaung - 8/2/2012I watched Prime Minister's questions and noticed that everytime David Cameron felt uncomfortable, he used David Miliband to beat Ed Miliband with. I wondered what that had to do with Ed's questions on the NHS.
I have come to the conclusion that reform or not the NHS will get progressively worse year upon year.
I was surprised at the all party unity in the UK on invading Syria and the hatred Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-8886926397023506722012-02-07T17:01:00.000Z2012-02-07T17:01:21.620ZWhy we need more banker bashing
Banks are the biggest scroungers of public money – solutions will not simply materialise if we don't keep up the pressure
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-88591106022099504862012-02-07T12:38:00.000Z2012-02-07T12:40:29.571ZMy Weltanschhaung - 7 Feb 2012- Am I glad that England lost 3-0 to Pakistan at cricket. You can blame Ajmal's action, you can blame the DRS but you still are unable to score enough runs. The cry of World number 1 is not so shrill now and I can remove my ear plugs.
- I am not really sure the NHS bill is privatisation by the back door or is it the vested interests of doctors, managers and nurses crying foul. Unfortunately, Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-66678176155775813462012-02-05T11:45:00.000Z2012-02-05T11:45:27.556ZAn Ode to India's Batting Triumvirate
Show me a hero, wrote novelist F.
Scott Fitzgerald, and I will write you a tragedy. Sporting heroes come
pre-loaded with the tragedy gene. A Muhammad Ali who goes one fight too
far, a Kapil Dev who is carried around till he breaks a record, a
Michael Schumacher who returns to the scenes of his triumphs but as an
also-ran—sport is cruel. The sportsman’s dilemma is simply stated:
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-34381472947893448222012-02-04T10:28:00.000Z2012-02-04T10:28:51.177ZA modern-day knight made to suffer a medieval punishment
The United States Constitution is one of the few really great documents ever
compiled by politicians. It is crisp and short and clear, and it is on the
side of the citizen rather than the state. I keep it by my desk.
Just after the news that Fred Goodwin was to be stripped of his knighthood, I
happened to be riffling through it, and my eye fell on this sentence from
Section 9: Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-49913530672355390962012-02-04T08:48:00.000Z2012-02-04T08:48:43.528ZWho to blame for the Great Recession?
In 2000 it was the $164bn (£103bn) AOL takeover of Time Warner
in America. In 2007 it was the-then Sir Fred Goodwin's £49bn acquisition
of ABN Amro that signalled that the markets had peaked and were about
to crumble.
Every financial crisis
has its totemic moment; a decision that even at the time seems to defy
logic and in retrospect is seen as an act of gross stupidity. Yet it
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-14270444936018202342012-02-03T07:40:00.000Z2012-02-03T07:40:57.046ZThe case for the legalisation of drugs
By Alexander Wickham
Opinion
Thursday, 2 February 2012 at 4:15 pm
Sir
Richard Branson is a fascinating figure. His politics are surprisingly
convoluted for a billionaire businessman; at times he has resembled a
Thatcherite neo-classical and at others he has been a Labour-supporting
proponent of humanitarian issues and environmentalism. Last week the
Virgin Group boss addressed the Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-74259055065390920522012-01-31T09:01:00.000Z2012-01-31T09:01:58.205ZWho came up with the model for excessive pay? No, it wasn't the bankers – it was academicsAll the focus has been on bankers' bonuses, yet no one has looked at the economists who argued for rewarding bosses by giving them a bigger financial stake in their companies
Take a big step back. Ignore those sterile debates about how Dave screwed up over Stephen Hester's pay and where this leaves Ed. Instead, ask this: which profession has done most to justify the millions handed over to theGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-82155620493493875432012-01-30T18:19:00.000Z2012-01-30T18:19:51.934ZOld Conservative ValuesNorman Tebbit in The Telegraph
It is all too easy for a blogger to respond a bit too much to the
headlines of the day, so every now and again I think it useful to stand
back and look at some long-term trends.
David Cameron used to speak about Britain's broken society, and even
Ed Miliband makes socialist noises about society from time to time. The
Lib Dems concede, too, that there are Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-84107225234938784532012-01-25T16:59:00.000Z2012-01-25T16:59:48.158ZThe demise of the dollar
In a graphic illustration of the new world order, Arab states have
launched secret moves with China, Russia and France to stop using the US
currency for oil trading
By Robert Fisk
Tuesday, 6 October 2009
In the most profound financial change in recent Middle East
history, Gulf Arabs are planning – along with China, Russia, Japan and
France – to end dollar dealings forGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-28561672059447439522012-01-25T11:41:00.001Z2012-01-25T11:41:43.390ZShould we give the doosra a little leeway?
What if spinners were allowed to flex their arms 20 degrees while bowling?
Rob Steen
January 25, 2012
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One midwinter English Sunday, two arresting sporting headlines -
neither, pluckily, having anything whatsoever to do with f**tball.
Tucked away in the bottom left corner at the front of the latest Sunday Times
sports Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-11777376585611345272012-01-24T18:28:00.000Z2012-01-24T18:28:54.164ZThe secret to an enduring sex life - cups of tea
Making love with a long-term partner is less about sex toys and
snatched passion and more about sharing time, intimate moments – and
cups of tea, says the marital therapist Andrew G Marshall. He explains
how couples can keep the spark alive
Celia Dodd in The Independent
Tuesday, 24 January 2012
Sex life a bit lacking? Take heart: the answer lies not in
scary-sounding Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-53714484271142215652012-01-24T16:19:00.000Z2012-01-24T16:19:03.004ZOnly a maximum wage can end the great corporate pay robbery
Corporate wealth is being siphoned off by a kleptocratic class that has neither earned nor generated it
George Monbiot
guardian.co.ukGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-315138132702842792012-01-24T11:27:00.000Z2012-01-24T11:27:34.174ZCourage: a product of practice rather than faithThe question of moral courage – and whether you can get better at it – has stayed with me ever since I was shot at by Israelis
by Giles Fraser in The Guardian
OK, we all get it. Captain Francesco Schettino was a coward. Sinking the Costa Concordia was one thing – a mistake, even. The running away bit, though: that's a different order of moral failure. But how do we know what sort of person weGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-49100044862812862932012-01-20T07:33:00.000Z2012-01-20T07:33:16.275ZA decade ago, Ecuador was a banana republic, an economic basket case. Today, it has much to teach the rest of the world
Could Ecuador be the most radical and exciting place on Earth?
Jayati Ghosh
guardian.co.uk,
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-90566252714648963762012-01-18T16:58:00.000Z2012-01-18T16:58:14.635ZIan Stewart's top 10 popular mathematics books
Ian Stewart is an Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
at Warwick University and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has written
over 80 books, mainly popular mathematics, and has won three gold
medals for his work on the public understanding of science. In
collaboration with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen he wrote the Science of Discworld series. His new book, 17 Equations That Changed theGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-41117057617798809242012-01-18T06:41:00.001Z2012-01-18T06:41:52.139ZLearning batting from David Warner
Ed Smith
On Sunday, I fly to Adelaide for the fourth Test between India and
Australia. I'm due to arrive just in time for the first ball. I hope the
plane isn't late: David Warner might have scored a hundred by lunch.
In smashing 180 off 159 balls in Perth,
Warner proved quite a few people wrong - not least those who said that
Twenty20 would never produce a Test cricketer. Warner, of Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-81645545489458928322012-01-18T05:43:00.000Z2012-01-18T05:43:39.534ZHuaxi: The socialist village where everyone is wealthy
Imagine a place where everyone is entitled to a free home, a free
car and free healthcare. Clifford Coonan travelled to Huaxi to find out
the secret of its success.
Clifford Coonan
Tuesday, 17 January 2012
The sort of oxen you expect to see in Chinese villages tend to be
pulling carts or tilling fields, not a beasts made of a ton of gold.
This precious cow is locatedGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-86062550131928892192012-01-16T17:44:00.001Z2012-01-16T17:44:26.782ZDon't blame the ratings agencies for the eurozone turmoil
Europe and the eurozone are strangling themselves with a toxic mixture of austerity and a structurally flawed financial system
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-73266829063055769762012-01-15T09:18:00.000Z2012-01-15T09:18:54.349ZIndian students rank 2nd last in global test15 Jan, 2012, 02.37AM IST, Hemali Chhapia,TNN
MUMBAI: Across the world, India
is seen as an education powerhouse - based largely on the reputation of
a few islands of academic excellence such as the IITs. But scratch the
glossy surface of our education system and the picture turns seriously
bleak. Fifteen-year-old Indians who were put, for the first time, on a global stage stood Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-25440608655806187682012-01-14T08:02:00.000Z2012-01-14T08:02:19.126ZIf everyone did a Worrall Thompson, maybe Tesco wouldn't be too big to fail
Tesco's poor results have led it to review its practices. The self-service tills used by Wozza may be a good place to start
Marina Hyde
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-53252547783383447152012-01-13T07:24:00.000Z2012-01-13T07:24:04.505ZNothing wrong in killing; you just shouldn't urinate on the corpses.
Robert Fisk: This is not about 'bad apples'. This is the horror of war
How many other abuses took place off camera? How many Hadithas? How many My Lais?
Robert Fisk
Friday, 13 January 2012
So now it's snapshots of US Marines pissing on the Afghan dead.
Better, I suppose, than the US soldiers pictured beside the innocent
Afghan teenager they fragged back in March of last Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-64690704899923032822012-01-11T09:02:00.000Z2012-01-11T09:02:16.124ZSkyscrapers 'linked with impending financial crashes'
There
is an "unhealthy correlation" between the building of skyscrapers and
subsequent financial crashes, according to Barclays Capital.
Examples include the Empire State building, built as the
Great Depression was underway, and the current world's tallest, the Burj
Khalifa, built just before Dubai almost went bust.
China is currently the biggest builder of skyscrapers, the Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-61069931670134347202012-01-10T18:12:00.001Z2012-01-10T18:12:07.197ZIt's time to cancel unpayable old debts
By Aditya Chakrabortty in The Guardian
In the week between Christmas and New Year, those bleary few
days when the world has better things to do than catch up on news or
check its Twitter account, The Guardian carried a story that bears
repeating. It was about Dimitris and Christina Gasparinatos and their
kids in the Greek port of Patras. For ever hard up, Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-40502151316213667662012-01-10T17:10:00.000Z2012-01-10T17:11:02.798ZIs this Prosperity for Real?
By Pritish Nandy
Despite the economic downturn there remain
clear signs of growing prosperity all around us. Almost every week
someone or the other walks into my office wanting to make a movie and
ready to pay for it. It was like this ever since I entered this
profession. But earlier, people came with a few lakhs, a script, a
camera and an autograph book. Now they come with ten or twenty Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-43592427617065921752012-01-10T07:14:00.000Z2012-01-10T07:14:53.211ZElite Asian students cheat like mad on US college applications
By Patrick Winn
Created 1969-12-31 19:00
BANGKOK, Thailand — From sleep to social lives, there is little Asia’s
most upwardly mobile students won’t sacrifice for education. Though they
belong to the so-called “Asian Century,” American colleges remain the
premier destination for the elite from Shanghai to Singapore to Seoul.
The path to US college acceptance, however, increasingly Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-68842230611725030872012-01-10T07:04:00.000Z2012-01-10T07:04:14.605ZThe cost of our habitsBy Ardeshir Ommani
Altria Group is the
leading cigarette maker in the United States. The
stock of the company rose 20% in 2011's depressed
markets and it's up 50% over the past two years,
nearly four times the market's average gain. About
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-38480435141843821602012-01-08T19:25:00.000Z2012-01-08T19:25:01.503ZGermany once admired British workmanship – but that was a long time ago
Over the North Sea lies the richest country in Europe, its success built on the manufacturing industry that Britain has spurned
Ian Jack
guardian.co.uk,
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The power to say no
Pritish Nandy 02 January 2012, 09:18 PM IST
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My worst failing Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-6979557395001824412011-12-31T07:26:00.000Z2011-12-31T07:26:03.701ZBeware of Corporate Psychopaths
Brian Basham in The Independent
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Outlook Over the years I've met my fair share of monsters – rogue
individuals, for the most part. But as regulation in the UK and the US has
loosened its restraints, the monsters have proliferated.
In a paper recently published in the Journal of Business Ethics entitled "The
Corporate Psychopaths: Theory of the Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-66063272274575387872011-12-29T10:17:00.000Z2011-12-29T10:17:06.851ZJust because you're an atheist doesn't make you rational
Once you make it your primary aim to refute the existence of God, you miss what's really fundamental
Mark Steel
Thursday, 29 December 2011
Having followed the latest debate about religion, I'd say the
conclusion is obvious that the only thing as disturbing as the religious
is the modern atheist. I'd noticed this before, after I was slightly
critical of Richard Dawkins Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-65762877757793255112011-12-27T18:40:00.000Z2011-12-27T18:47:24.051ZUmpiring errors are part of the gameBy Michael Jeh 11 hours, 8 minutes ago in Michael Jeh
Everyone, including Hussey, knew the rules of engagement before that match started
© AFP
Here we go again - another Border Gavaskar Trophy on the line and it
starts to get "tasty" after just one day. The Internet era merely
serves to heighten the tensions because unlike the old-fashioned
'Letters to the Editor' which were Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-51392044288747257152011-12-24T15:22:00.000Z2011-12-24T15:22:13.732ZWhy should I love this country?
The New Chauvinism
By George Monbiot. Published in the Guardian 9th August 2005
Out of the bombings a national consensus has emerged: what we need in
Britain is a renewed sense of patriotism. The rightwing papers have
been making their usual noises about old maids and warm beer, but in the
past 10 days they’ve been joined by Jonathan Freedland in the Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-43362807683024138492011-12-20T09:39:00.000Z2011-12-20T09:39:55.213ZConflict - the path to Growth and Renewalby Pritish Nandy
Call it conflict. Call it confrontation. Or
call it simply the dialectic of growth. Whatever you call it, clashes
take the world ahead. We may talk endlessly about peace and stability,
how crucial continuity is. But what brings about change and opens up new
ideas, new markets, new opportunities is always conflict. It breaks the
status quo, creates the momentum for change. Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-19042461203579613972011-12-20T08:49:00.003Z2011-12-20T08:49:49.092ZGood Minus God
By LOUISE M. ANTONY
The Stone is a forum for contemporary philosophers on issues both timely and timeless.
Tags:
Atheism, Ethics, God, morality, Philosophy, religion and belief
I was heartened to learn recently that atheists are no longer the
most reviled group in the United States: according to the political
scientists Robert Putnam and David Campbell, we’ve been Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-34018198270013203752011-12-20T07:14:00.000Z2011-12-20T07:14:58.016ZEurope's gutless collapse
By Reuven Brenner
The US and European financial crises have this in common: too much credit was
advanced at too low prices to households in the United States and to
governments in Europe. In the US, the recipients did not have either the
collateral or the prospect of Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-87695400076347134052011-12-19T20:43:00.000Z2011-12-19T20:51:40.746Z'Freedom' an instrument of oppression
This bastardised libertarianism makes 'freedom' an instrument of oppression
It's the disguise used by those who wish to exploit without restraint, denying the need for the state to protect the 99%
George Monbiot
guardian.co.uk,
Monday 19 December 2011 20.30 GMTGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-80581509355683073062011-12-18T08:43:00.000Z2011-12-18T08:43:49.042ZNo Walmart, Please
By Justice Rajindar Sachar (retd)
17 December, 2011
The Tribune, India
Govt’s claim is questionable
If the combined
Opposition had sat down for weeks to find an issue to embarrass the UPA
government and make it a laughing stock before the whole country, they
could not have thought of a better issue than the free gift presented to
it initially by the government by insisting Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-64032077287070707462011-12-17T09:00:00.000Z2011-12-17T09:32:12.311ZWhy pretend we know everything? It's time to embrace uncertainty
It is certainty that we need to worry about, as extreme ideologies prosper in these uncertain times
Suzanne Moore
guardian.co.uk,
Wednesday 14 December 2011 20.00 GMT
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Western politicians are dire, but we mustn't despise government
Our leaderships, in thrall to big business, are failing in so many places all at the same time. But we can't give up on them
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-59591264159778600672011-12-12T18:53:00.000Z2011-12-12T18:53:21.515ZPopulation decline is the elephant in the world's living roomThe fifth horseman of the apocalypse
By Spengler
(The essay below appears as a preface to my book
How Civilizations Die (and Why Islam is Dying, Too). [1]
Population decline is the elephant in the world's living room. As a matter of
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-56628806464536851672011-12-11T07:09:00.001Z2011-12-11T07:14:01.836ZPick a Card, Any Card
DECEMBER 10, 2011 The Wall Street Journal
By ALEX STONE
The standard way to
mix a deck of playing cards—the one used everywhere from casinos to rec
rooms—is what is known as a riffle (or "dovetail") shuffle. You begin by
splitting the deck into two roughly equal stacks. Then you flick the
cards with your thumbs off the bottoms of the piles in alternating
fashion, Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-28237053098004777672011-12-10T06:29:00.001Z2011-12-10T10:52:35.773ZBankers are the dictators of the West
Robert Fisk in The Independent
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Writing from the very region that produces more clichés per square foot than any other "story" – the Middle East – I should perhaps pause before I say I have never read so much garbage, so much utter drivel, as I have about the world financial crisis.
But I will not hold my fire. It seems to me that the reporting of the Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-34098363813861288062011-12-07T07:45:00.001Z2011-12-07T07:49:46.691ZThe true costs of Keynes
By Martin Hutchinson
Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong each killed tens of millions of
people, and John Maynard Keynes was a pacifist who never fired a shot in anger.
However, economically, when the billions come to be totted up, it may well be
the case that KeynesGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-11708687851889757892011-12-07T07:29:00.001Z2011-12-07T07:33:11.702ZWinning is everything? Sorry, no
In cricket,
as in other sports, it's not about the statistics and the bottomline.
It's about how much joy you give, how well you are loved and remembered
Ed Smith
December 7, 2011
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With little but economic gloom on the horizon, David Cameron likes to
appeal to Britain's better instincts, insisting: "We're all in this
together." Whether the average citizen is listening to the Prime
Minister's entreaties is open to doubt: Britons appear to be more
selfish and less interested in the common good than ever before.
The latest British Social Attitudes report suggests Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-79364042368108770222011-12-07T06:35:00.000Z2011-12-07T06:38:01.154ZSocrates - Requiem for a wise man!
Nirmal Shekar
AP
Former Brazil's soccer player Socrates
The Socrates persona was as contradictory as it was compelling
HE was a hard-drinking, chain-smoking free thinker grappling with the
higher reaches of truth passed on to posterity by Friedrich Nietzsche
and Karl Marx in an awesome Victorian auditorium of a Rio de Janerio
University.
He was a head-banded, Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-90693388997581111222011-12-06T19:36:00.001Z2011-12-06T19:39:30.855ZWhy Is Economic Growth So Popular?
By Ugo Bardi
26 November, 2011
Cassandra's legacy
When the new Italian Prime Minister, Mr. Mario Monti, gave his acceptance speech
to the Senate, a few days ago, he used 28 times the term "growth" and
not even once terms such as "natural resources" or "energy". He is not
alone in neglecting the physical basis of the world's economy: the
chorus of economic pundits everywhere in Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-64813227462646557012011-12-06T16:33:00.001Z2011-12-06T16:36:29.665ZOn off spin bowling
Dear Nathan,
Mate, keep spinning hard and getting the ball above the level of the
batsman's eyes. You seem to know instinctively what I took years to
learn: that the key to spin bowling is not where the ball lands but how
it arrives. Spin hard, drive up and over your braced front leg with a
high bowling arm and you can defeat the best batsmen on any track,
anywhere, anytime.
My Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-82022384746900534402011-12-05T15:08:00.001Z2011-12-05T15:10:27.376ZBig Farmer The poorest taxpayers are subsidising the richest people in Europe: and this spending will remain uncut until at least 2020.by George Monbiot
What would you do with £245? Would you (a) use it to buy food for the
next five weeks?, (b) put it towards a family holiday?, (c) use it to
double your annual savings?, or (d) give it to the Duke of Westminster?
Let me make the case for option (d). This year he was plunged into
relative poverty. Relative, that is, to the three parvenus who have
displaced him from the top Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-78768993935753945702011-12-05T11:54:00.001Z2011-12-05T11:57:44.189ZClimate Justice Requires A New Paradigm
By Vandana Shiva
02 December, 2011
Newleftproject.org
Twenty Years ago, at the
Earth Summit, the world’s Governments signed the UN Framework
Convention on Climate Change to create a legally binding framework to
address the challenge of climate change.
Today, the Green House Gas emissions that contribute to climate change have increased not reduced.
The Climate Treaty is Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-5163111878609104192011-12-05T09:02:00.001Z2011-12-05T09:03:44.333ZCricket - Bowling Analysis of Great Performances
December 5, 2011
Posted by Anantha Narayanan 1 hour, 10 minutes ago in Tests - bowling
Five-wicket hauls in Tests: a look across and deep - part one
Michael Holding: 14 wickets on a flat track at The Oval in 1976
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There is a tendency to ignore the bowlers in Test cricket. I myself am
guilty of this and do not allocate equal time and effort for these
forgotten species. Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-55708476971417333962011-12-05T08:32:00.001Z2011-12-05T08:42:47.159Z' Nice Guys Finish Last'
I didn't get where I am today by being nice...
Richard Hall
Monday, 05 December 2011
It is a phrase that millions of good-natured people around the
world will consider so obvious that it hardly deserves to be questioned.
Nonetheless, a team of business experts claims to have proved the
pessimistic notion that "nice guys finish last" – at least where money
is concerned.
A Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-17187772332903134312011-12-05T07:54:00.001Z2011-12-05T07:58:34.435ZIt's not how you begin...Players who failed to light up their debuts but went on to shine later in their careersby Steven Lynch
When he started out, Shane Warne didn't give any hint he would become the greatest legspinner in the game
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Ed Smith in Cricinfo 24/11/2011
WG Grace thought reading books was bad for your batting. "You'll never
catch me that way," he scoffed. The story serves as a metaphor for
sport's suspicion of intellectual life. Thinkers, readers, curious
minds: do we really want them clogging up the supposedly optimistic,
forward-looking atmosphere of a cricket team?
Cricket is still grappling with the Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-71958944771030520682011-11-23T16:44:00.001Z2011-11-23T16:49:24.405ZOnly builders will profit from Cameron's sub-prime homes
Simon Jenkins, The Guardian, 23/11/2011
After the SS British Economy hit an iceberg three years ago,
survivors were hauled from the freezing sea aboard the good ship
Cameron. They assumed he'd be a more reliable helmsman. So what should
they make of their new captain deciding to hurl his vessel at full speed
towards the self-same iceberg?
David Cameron announced on Monday that he wants to Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-3804522333089179102011-11-23T14:58:00.001Z2011-11-23T15:02:45.432ZIn the UK 2,800 bankers earn over £1m. The claim that rare skills command a premium does not apply to them
Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian, 23/11/2011
Here's a game you can play at home. Ask your friends how much
they reckon the head of human resources at Cadbury, the chocolate
company, pocketed for the last year for which we have figures. In my
experience, the guessing will open at around the £100,000 or £150,000
mark. Then, realising that the answer must be stunning or else you
wouldn't Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-14909922065343497552011-11-23T12:40:00.001Z2011-11-23T16:57:08.154ZAnother balanced perspective on the global economic crisisBy Chan Akya
The trick to flying is to fall ... and miss. Douglas Adams, Hitchhiker's
Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams should have been around now, but tragically died a few years ago
aged in his late forties (rather than at '42'). If he had been around, perhaps
he would have given some wise counsel to Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-23667353249479243562011-11-22T16:16:00.001Z2011-11-22T16:21:49.131ZOn Peter Roebuck by a former student
Fabian Muir
I met Peter Roebuck
at boarding school when I was nine years old. It was his first summer
in Sydney, having come from England in the off season to teach at
Cranbrook School, where he was also a tutor in the junior boarding
house.
Even then it was clear that Peter was different. Although already
playing for Somerset, this thin, bespectacled Englishman seemed more
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-71026639025367471442011-11-22T09:30:00.001Z2011-11-22T09:36:16.741ZAn Influential Economist admits the wrongness of economic dogmaStephen King
Monday, 21 November 2011
This week I'm going to take a step back and offer my "Top 10 Beliefs Strongly Held in 2007 Which Now Turn Out to Have Been Hopelessly Wrong".
Belief No 1: Inflation targeting delivers prosperity and stability.
In the late 1980s, central bankers the world over became enamoured with inflation targeting. Scarred from the inflationary excesses ofGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-50436098776117545882011-11-22T09:19:00.001Z2011-11-22T09:22:17.655ZSocialism for the RichGeorge Monbiot
In the documentary series which finished on Friday evening, the heiress Tamara Ecclestone set out to prove that she isn't "a pointless, quite spoilt, really stupid, vacuous, empty human being". This endeavour was not wholly successful. Channel 5 showed her supervising the refurbishment of her £45m home in London, in which she commissioned a £1m bathtub carved from Mexican crystal,Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-87992433890776241872011-11-22T09:12:00.001Z2011-11-22T09:14:46.759ZThe billionaire Virgin boss Richard Branson is no radical, he's no entrepreneur, he's just a plain old-fashioned carpetbaggerLast week, you, me and every other taxpayer in Britain each handed £13 to the billionaire Richard Branson. Not that we were told about this national whip-round. Instead, George Osborne claimed the heavily discounted sale of Northern Rock to the Virgin boss and a few of his chums represented "value for money". That's a funny way to describe a deal where taxpayers come out at least £400m poorer, Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-25863169440079620272011-11-21T07:14:00.001Z2011-11-21T07:17:41.582ZLove at 50: Never too old for a live-in!
Times of India - 21-11-2011
AHMEDABAD: The Mehndi Nawaz Jung Hall, one of the oldest auditoriums in Ahmedabad, could well become the ground zero of a social revolution in India. Such was the success of the country's first live-in mela
for 50-plus people here on Sunday that the organizers have now decided
to hold it in Bhopal, Pune, Delhi, Kolkata and Mumbai in the next six
months. At Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-5053002122693571342011-11-21T07:11:00.001Z2011-11-21T07:13:30.373ZIt's not about sex
Pritish Nandy
20 November 2011, 03:02 PM IST
Sex is as much a part of politics as of life. SoGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-34834099613719736142011-11-19T06:59:00.001Z2011-11-19T07:04:15.380ZTo secure credit, Europe finds global financial markets no longer attuned to Western interestsJoergen Oerstroem Moeller
The eurozone crisis has not only raised questions about the
viability of the common currency, but could also jeopardize an economic
model that has so far reigned supreme. The course taken to resolve
the crisis in Europe will have long-term impact on the most vibrant
parts of the world – from Asia to Latin America.
In developedGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-11265067791918272932011-11-16T16:22:00.001Z2011-11-16T16:26:31.002ZCriticism of Schumacher - if you curtail growth, living standards drop
Schumacher was no radical – if you curtail growth, living standards drop
By suggesting it's
better to be economically poorer and spiritually richer, Schumacher
ignores links between growth and wellbeing
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-17768160546511630652011-11-16T07:56:00.001Z2011-11-16T16:28:11.548ZPigeonholing protesters as anti capitalist will only allow those who are against reform to avoid the issue
Ha-Joon Chang
guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 15 November 2011 21.00 GMT
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In Singapore 'a staggering 22% of
national output is produced by state-owned Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-52802933089719428902011-11-15T16:18:00.001Z2011-11-16T16:28:36.885ZGermany has benefitted from the Euro and should protect it.
There is only one alternative to the euro's survival: catastrophe
Little Englanders – and blinkered Germans – need to wake up to the implications of a fractured eurozone
Will Hutton
The Observer,
Sunday 13 November Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-6703431448951059822011-11-12T07:41:00.001Z2011-11-12T07:43:50.823ZChina's richest keep firm eye on exit door
By Olivia Chung
HONG KONG - "Get rich - then get out" is the life message being grasped by
China's wealthiest citizens two decades after former leader Deng Xiaoping
supposedly declared that "to get rich is glorious".
About 60% of rich Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-74967020942639705692011-11-10T06:42:00.004Z2011-11-10T06:49:40.242ZCreativity and curiosity: Do we make stuff up or find it out?By Prof. Colin Lawson in The Independent
The world of music has much to contribute to debate around the nexus
between discovery and invention. Igor Stravinsky memorably once wrote of
his ballet The Rite of Spring; ‘I heard and I wrote what I heard. I am the vessel through which the Rite
passed’. He felt that he had in effect ‘discovered’ rather than
invented it. These days we’re all too Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-78254404712271455042011-11-09T16:56:00.001Z2011-11-10T07:09:35.099ZA Eurosceptic hero alongside sainted Maggie? It's got to be Gordon Brown
The judgments for which Gordon Brown was mocked look rather different now we've seen David Cameron in action
Jonathan Freedland
guardian.co.uk,
Tuesday 8 November 2011 21.00 GMT
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-15386095137300351422011-11-09T07:11:00.000Z2011-11-09T07:11:35.530ZPolicy can trump unpopularity - A way to solve the EU crises
By Martin Hutchinson
As is well known to readers of this column, it is my considered opinion that
economic policy and management reached a global all-time apogee (so far - one
can always hope) under the British prime ministership of Robert Banks
Jenkinson, Lord Liverpool (Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-3036590648696596952011-11-09T06:58:00.000Z2011-11-09T06:58:06.406ZFundamental point of cricketIsolated to its most fundamental point, cricket could be described as
the duel between a bowler tempting a batsman to drive and a batsman
trying to ignore that temptation.Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-30805997494487345622011-11-09T06:38:00.000Z2011-11-09T06:38:55.926ZThe short, sharp life of 'Chinese century'
By Nick Ottens
If there is to be an Asian century, it won't be China's alone. While it still
has hundreds of millions of people living in poverty, the country is losing its
cheap labor advantage to East Asian competitors while more industrialized
nations in the region are Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-16421496824022055662011-11-08T15:54:00.000Z2011-11-08T15:54:30.117ZThe 1% are the very best destroyers of wealth the world has ever seen
Our common treasury in the last 30 years has been captured by industrial psychopaths. That's why we're nearly bankrupt
Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-53281013640971301062011-11-07T16:34:00.000Z2011-11-07T16:34:42.906ZFinancial fascism
By Chan Akya
If politics were just war by another name, then economics would be the favored
armory of both sides. Europe has gone one step further last week, almost
unimaginably bringing back the era of fascism as it contends with the unwieldy
agglomeration of financial Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-38259136299973830522011-11-07T07:19:00.000Z2011-11-07T07:19:39.081ZAdvice to cricketers: get a life
Having a
pastime outside the game - say, writing a diary - can set you free from
the tyranny of results and often make you a better player
Ed Smith
November 7, 2011
I'd like to tell you a story about two cricketers preparing for a new
season. It's a true story, but it's also a parable about success and
failure.
The first player gives up almost everything outside cricket. There Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-71223583420483320232011-11-06T17:21:00.001Z2011-11-16T16:29:18.690ZHoward Zinn Memorial Lecture
That 70s Show
'The 1970s set off a kind of a vicious cycle that led to
a concentration of wealth increasingly in the hands of the financial
sector, which doesn’t benefit the economy... What’s being played out for
the last 30 years is actually a kind of a nightmare that was
anticipated by the classical economists'
Noam Chomsky
It's a little hard to give a Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-81046918191262531142011-11-05T07:34:00.000Z2011-11-05T07:34:42.607ZPutting Growth In Its Place
It has to be but a means to development, not an end in itself
Jean Dreze
,
Amartya Sen
Is
India doing marvellously well, or is it failing terribly? Depending on
whom you speak to, you could pick up either of those answers with some
frequency. One story, very popular among a minority but aGiffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-61770404095516013792011-11-05T07:18:00.000Z2011-11-05T07:18:50.076ZLord Ram’s Story: Many Tellings
By Ram Puniyani
04 November, 2011
Countercurrents.org
Recently Delhi
University Academic Council (Oct 2011) decided to drop the scholarly
essay “Three Hundred Ramayanas” of A.K.Ramanujan, on different telling
of Ram’s story from the syllabus of ‘Culture in India’ for BA Honors
students. Of the four experts on the committee, one of them, whose
opinion was finally accepted, said Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-23821781668557289962011-11-02T19:22:00.000Z2011-11-02T19:22:02.516ZEurocrats are terrified of democracy
By
Daniel Hannan
8:15PM GMT 01 Nov 2011
706 Comments
Shall I tell you the truly terrifying thing about the EU? It’s not the absence
of democracy in Brussels, or the ease with which Eurocrats swat aside
referendum results. It’s the way in which the internal democracy of the
member states is subverted in order to sustain the requirements Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5921676119522972120.post-52064710207159189842011-11-02T06:11:00.001Z2011-11-02T06:11:16.567ZThis is no return to ancient Greek democracy
Matthew Norman
Wednesday, 02 November 2011
There may be nothing new under the sun, but according to the
ancient Greeks it is quite the celestial Johnny-come-lately. Long before
the sun, long even before the Titans rose and fell, and Zeus slew his
father Cronos to seize control of Olympus, there was only Chaos. The
mother of all things is back in charge as the muthah of all Giffenmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01574301857186322909noreply@blogger.com0