January 2012
7 posts
We need musicians who know that music can take inspiration not only from other...
– 5.4 - Pitchfork, 1995 - present - Richard Beck, n+1 magazine
On average the 31 companies in the Euro Stoxx Banks Index trade for 39
% of...
– Why Zombie Banks Hate To Write Off Bad Loans - Jonathan Weil, Bloomberg
Four years after the banking system nearly collapsed from reckless mortgage...
– The watchdogs that didn’t bark - Scot Paltrow, Reuters
[E]very single photograph uploaded to Facebook is put through facial recognition...
– Eben Moglen
Nowadays, yakuza run hedge funds. They speculate in real estate. The...
– All Due Respect - An American reporter takes on the yakuza - Peter Hessler, The New Yorker
When the era of wishful thinking ends, Europe will face a stark choice. It can...
– How bad ideas worsen Europe’s debt meltdown - John H. Cochrane
As a simple rule of thumb, just imagine every time you’re telling a good...
– Tyler Cowen