David Mamet is a genius. Take this speech in American Buffalo:
It comes at the end of a failed enterprise. A day when three small-time crooks inject purpose into
The G20 communique from their November 15th Washington meeting is reproduced below. Join me in doing a group read/comment of the text. Is it what we need from our
The Bank of England has just come out with its quarterly inflation report.
The big headline is that recession for the next 12-18 months is almost certain.
A comparison
The Group of 20 meeting in Washington this week-end will do little in the way of solving the financial crisis, let alone designing a new World Economic Order (WEO)
The European Investment Bank's deal, announced yesterday, whereby it made €30bn available for lending to the Europe's small and medium sized companies is interesting for the
I have just published Mary Kaldor's latest column, which I think makes a really valuable contribution to our view of the financial crisis. The economics commentary, however much
Tony Curzon Price (London, openDemocracy): George Osborne gave the Today program an opportunity to demonstrate the great emptiness of the media-political conversation this morning.
Paraphrasing, here was the interview:
George Osborne gave the Today program an opportunity to demonstrate the great emptiness of the media-political conversation this morning.
Paraphrasing, here was the interview:
SM (interviewer): "What is
The BoE quarterly report has a table (reproduced below) of all the measures that have been taken by central banks world-wide to get banks lending again. The fact that,
Iceland's chill has led Bjork to tune in to her inner philanthrocapitalist. (Hat Tip CalendarGirl ). In this interview, Bjork describes her reaction to Iceland's economic woes
