The Closer
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ROUND-UP FT markets round-up: “The FTSE All-World equity index closed 0.15 per cent higher, while Wall Street’s S&P 500 ended the session nearly flat at 1,403 points after modest gains....
Riots in Europe
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It’s hard to believe that the huge riots in Europe that were plastered all over the news happened now over a year ago. This was a huge story at the time, and for a while it looked like London had spiralled into an Anarchy that would spread arou...
Games, in sports and in business
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Seems that some have it all wrong. You actually compete in business but you participate in sports. NickPthinks on business, EU policy, socio-economics and systemics in Europe. North America and the world...
How privilege-blindness stops us understanding the roots of terrorism | Priyamvada Gopal
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From Cameron's 'Indian dance' remark to the discussion of Breivik's motives, the invisibility of whiteness distorts debateAn independent inquiry has established that Anders Behring Breivik, the clean-cut white supremacist who methodically murder...
Is Germany a bull in the Eurozone's China Store?
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Some thoughts of mine on PressEurop's very interesting report: Berlin still selling too much (14/8/2012) 1) The FAZ comments IMO, at best, show (let's call it) "non-systemic thinking". 2) Is Germany exporting too much or importing and in gener...
StanChart settles
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From Superintendent Benjamin Lawsky:“The New York State Department of Financial Services (“DFS”) and Standard Chartered Bank (“Bank”) have reached...
A decision for Europe
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Greece's choice between idealism and reality - 1. News focus / Domestic politics, Greece, Europe and the crisis...
It is time for change
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It has been 5 years since the credit crunch that led to the global financial crisis, which eventually fed into the sovereign debt crisis across Europe, started. 5 years and 5 summers that policy makers and politicians have been struggling to contain...
It is time for change
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It has been 5 years since the credit crunch that led to the global financial crisis, which eventually fed into the sovereign debt crisis across Europe, started. 5 years and 5 summers that policy makers and politicians have been struggling to contain...
Tax havens 'a drain' on scarce financial resources
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Tax havens not only promote large scale tax evasion across the globe, but can have a devastating impact on emerging economies that do not have the necessary resources to mitigate the loss of revenue, writes Sophia Garfield...
“Google Starts Punishing “Pirate” Sites but will it be effective? WikiLeaks Resumes Operations, meet the Virus Gauss.. A cyberculture roundup…
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I never search google to download stuff. I know where I should go. I guess like porn sites, torrent people directly go to the addresses they already know. A different dynamic… Not the pirates but Google loses here… I hope… Google St...
In Search Of Lost Demand
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So here’s the 5 trillion dollar trick question. In an interesting article on the limitations of central bank monetary policy in the current environment, Reuter’s Alan Wheatly made the following statement which caught my attention. “...
"Europe sliding back into recession" by Andrew Watt
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The latest quarterly GDP figures confirm the already pessimistic expectations. Europe is sliding back into recession. In both the euro area and the EU27 growth output contracted by 0.2% in the second quarter. This followed on stagnation in the first...
Russia: Yekaterinburg University Begins Masters Program in Blogging & Political Journalism
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Yekaterinburg's Ural Federal University is for the first time offering a Masters Degree [ru] in “political journalism” with specific training in blogging and “image-making.” In February 2011, UFU hosted [ru] journalist a...
Church Disco in Amsterdam
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This post deviates a bit from the beaten track to which EuroSavant readers are accustomed in that it does not take as its jumping-off point any sort of news article. Also, it has to do with something in Amsterdam, my home-base but nevertheless somepl...
Chris Grayling tries to cover-up report into Jubilee Stewards incident
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Chris Grayling plans to cover-up an official report into the notorious “Jubilee stewards” incident on the basis that it is “commercially confidential”. The episode unpaid workfare staff forced to sleep rough under London Brid...
Hungarian Melon Campaign Is a Lemon
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A Hungarian official is drawing criticism after he advocated resorting to cartel-type methods as a means of protecting domestic watermelon farmers from competition.
Today is the Feast Day of St. Maximilian Kolbe
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Spare a moment’s thought to the life and trials of St. Maximilian Kolbe who died at Auschwitz. Ten men were to be put to death as a result of a prisoner’s escape. He spared another man’s life by taking the place of another in that reprisal.
Soft Center at Heart of Core Europe
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Investors hunting for scraps of good news on Europe may be reassured by the fact that Europe's so-called "core" economies haven't yet fully succumbed to the sovereign debt crisis.
China’s literally ground-breaking copper inventories
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Remember how China was being buried alive in copper a few months ago? The stuff was piling up in carparks? Now it’s even WORSE.Judy Zhu and Han Pin Hsi, the Standard Chartered...
start off slow and easy
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There are immense rewards for those of great measure. This may be a quote somewhere but not a stock quote used in the stock market. Stock news is still the location to go for information on stocks in the market. This declaration may apply more to pen...
‘Don’t be a hero – start from zero’
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Matt King, Citi credit strategist, strikes again in a new presentation — this time on capital preservation and making ‘risky’ assets ‘safe’. Full...
Improving Google Patents with the European Patent Office
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Cross-posted from the Google Research Blog At Google, we're constantly trying to make important collections of information more useful to the world. Since 2006, we’ve let people discover, search, and read United States patents online. Starting thi...
