The president of Switzerland
stepped to a podium in Bern last May and read a statement confirming rumors that
had swirled through the capital for months. The government, he acknowledged, had
indeed destroyed a huge trove of computer files and other material documenting
the business dealings of a family of Swiss engineers suspected of helping
smuggle nuclear technology to Libya
and Iran.
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FT.com / Markets - Insight: Survivor’s guide to navigation
First, how far will the balance shift from markets to governments? Industrial nations’ governments are getting more involved in modes of production, exchange and distribution – see the US, long committed to minimum state involvement. The drivers of more government involvement in markets are primarily non-commercial. Entry is dictated by a desire to offset market failures; and exit is often delayed by the lobbying of those favourably impacted by such interventions.
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FT.com / Columnists / Gideon Rachman - Democracy could still win in Iran
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History lesson for economists in thrall to Keynes - John Mauldin's Outside the Box - InvestorsInsight.com | Financial Intelligence, Advice & Research / Investment Strategies & Planning for Individual Investors.
History lesson for economists in thrall to Keynes
By Niall Ferguson
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Scobleizer — Tech geek blogger » Blog Archive Why FriendFeed will go mainstream (Part II) «
It’s very flexible. For instance, check out these links:
1. Everyone who has shared an item on Google Reader.
2. Everyone who has shared a song on Last.fm. or on iLike.
3. Everyone who has Tweeted on Twitter (do a test and see how fast yours shows up there).
4. Everyone who has shared a video on YouTube.
5. Everyone who has written a blog post.
6. Everyone who has put, or favorited, a photo on Flickr. On SmugMug. On Picasa.
7. Everyone who has posted something on FriendFeed itself (link or a note).
8. Everyone who has shared an event on Upcoming.
9. Everyone who has bookmarked an item on Del.icio.us.
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Linux: Speed Your File System Up By 40% | Hackosis
Every time a file is read from your Linux ext3 partition it writes back a attribute to the file detailing the last access time. There are very few programs that actually use this to operate and it slows everything down.
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Mr Banker - Where is the Chrome in your strategy? « The Bankwatch
What is the Chrome for Banks? What are the things Bank(s) could develop and promote to open source, that would benefit them, their customers, and other Banks, and the benefit could snowball to be orders of magnitude greater than any simple new product enhancement, and in fact alter the basis of competition?
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FT.com | The Economists’ Forum | The global consensus on trade is unravelling
The current distribution of regional economic power is unlike anything that was predicted even a decade ago. The rise of the developing world, its growing share in global output and far greater share of global growth, is perhaps a quantitative but not a qualitative surprise. The qualitative surprise is this: with almost all the industrial world in or near recession, much of the momentum in the global economy is coming from countries with authoritarian governments that are pursuing economic strategies directed towards wealth accumulation and building up geopolitical strength rather than improving living standards for their populations. China, where household consumption has now fallen below 40 per cent of its gross domestic product – which must be some kind of peacetime record – is the most extreme example. Similar tendencies, however, can be seen in other parts of Asia, Russia and other oil exporting countries.
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FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - How a euro-molehill became a mountain
Signs of the tmes:
Twelfth, the eurozone’s strengths are too often hidden. Here is the clincher: eurozone countries together won more medals at the Beijing Olympics than either China or the US.
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In Nuclear Net’s Undoing, a Web of Shadowy Deals - Series - NYTimes.com
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