While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks. Some of us are investment managers who earn billions from our daily labors but are allowed to classify our income as “carried interest,” thereby getting a… Read More »
It is actually the Copenhagen Phil (Sjællands Symfoniorkester) Have a nice Sunday.
Watch the full episode. See more Need To Know. I am currently reading the book – just finished the first two chapters. Will write some more about it when I’m done.
… could have been the title of a detailed piece by The Economist on the actions of the Chinese Queensway Syndicate in Africa: The syndicate is built on links forged during the cold war. It is largely the creation of a man known as Sam Pa. Though he uses several names, he was born Xu Jinghua.… Read More »
I recently read Michael Lewis’ The Big Short, a very instructive book on the recent financial that looks at the crisis from the point of view those who made money from it. So when I learnt from the Planet Money blog that he has written a piece for Vanity Fair on the country I now call… Read More »
Magnus Nome in Open Democracy: While American cable news was not very good at its job, the Hall of Shame is reserved for others. Worst of them all, former FOX employee Glenn Beck, who saw fit to compare the slaughtered youth of a democratic organisation in a free country to the compulsory, paramilitary, racist Hitlerjugend.… Read More »
Alain de Botton – On Pessimism from The School of Life on Vimeo.
The Executive Summary: African countries south of the Sahara are poised to enjoy a surge in growth in their banking systems during this decade. The three main drivers of this development will be generally very high rates of economic growth, financial deepening to fulfil huge unmet needs for basic financial services and new technologies to… Read More »
Nafees Ahmad’s interpretation of Take Five. Thanks to Kerim and Marian
1. A series exploring the realities of life in Europe for African migrants – Al Jazeera 2. The number of attempted suicides is five times as high among young Turkish-German women than their ethnic German counterparts – Der Spiegel 3. Dissent in China (on Chinese citizens’ response to the train crash in Wenzhou) – The… Read More »