January 2011
10 posts
The Telegraph - China to create largest mega city... →
Karma Nabulsi, "This seemingly endless and ugly... →
Mark Blyth, "The End Game for the Euro: German... →
Zygmunt Bauman, "On the Outcast Generation" →
“The youngsters of the generation now entering or preparing to enter the so-called ‘labour market’ have been groomed and honed to believe that their life task is to outshoot and leave behind the parental success stories, and that such a task (barring a blow of cruel fate or their own, eminently curable inadequacy) is fully within their capacity. However far their parents have reached, they...
“As banker, I have the right to stand up if something is wrong,” he said....”
– Rudolf Elmer in the Guardian
“Constat sans appel, 75 % des Français se disent plutôt favorables à la...”
– IFOP
Paul Krugman, "Can Europe Be Saved?" →
Wikipedia - Seisachtheia →
Seisachtheia (Greek: σεισάχθεια, from seiein, to shake, and achthos, burden, i.e. the relief of burdens) was a set of laws instituted by the Athenian lawmaker Solon (c. 638 BC–558 BC) in order to rectify the widespread serfdom and slaves that had run rampant in Athens by the 6th Century BC, by debit relief. Under the pre-existing legal status, according to the account of the Constitution of the...
Carl Pope, "The Rich Don't Really Care about the... →
“Together, Slim, Gates, Buffett, and Ambani control more wealth than the world’s poorest 57 countries. “
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, "Overheating East to... →
