Microsoft has done the decent thing and proposed to Yahoo. More even than Google's presence at Davos, it marks the end of the teenage years for the search
The tuberculosis sanatoria of the Magic Mountain at Davos fill every year with the business leaders who, ill of their tarnished images, want to put themselves into the spotlight of
The mass industrial media, at their best, perform two basic public functions. First, they monitor and hold to account, and second, they form and maintain a common purpose, an ``imaginary
Evan Davis, the telegenic and usually excellent BBC Economicscorespondent, had a heart-stoppingly bad argument this morning on theToday show. Darling is hauling in the gas and power companiesto hear justifications
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The oD Sophocrats
openDemocracy launched a set of predictivemarktes in January 2007. The idea was that byallowing oD readers to buy and sell forecasts, the oD crowd wouldreveal
I've been looking forward to Becker's blog posting on sub-prime for a while. I think the current financial crisis will be to economic liberalism what Iraq
How should we interpret the massive investments from sovereign wealth funds being taken by UBS, Citi and Morgan Stanley to shore up their capital reserves? Just when the central banks
Will Hutton was interviewed on Today - the jolly slot at 0857 - about whether the 30,000 UK resident super-rich are good for the country. He talked about incentives,
Brad Setser at RGE Monitor has a very worrying picture:
It shows that long term lending to the US has dried up since August.
The consequences seem to me to
Who you are determines what you mean. What you say can make who you are.
This dance of talking and being makes listening quite hard, and nowhere more so today
I am in Vienna, a guest of the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, who, for their 25th anniversary, gathered a group ``Towards a European Public Space; International workshop on