January 2012
2 posts
“US gas now costs just a third of prices in European markets and a sixth of gas...”
– US natural gas prices fall to decade low - FT.com
“While there are exceptionally high rates of youth unemployment, especially in...”
– Capitalism in crisis: The code that forms a bar to harmony - FT.com
December 2011
2 posts
“Oilmen refer to Kashagan, a huge oilfield in Kazakhstan, as “cash all gone”.”
– Kazakh oil and gas - FT.com
“In 1990, the largest foreign direct investor was Fruit of the Loom, making...”
– Warily on the way back - FT.com
November 2011
8 posts
“This is actually not a flippant question – and the answer is yes. Not because...”
– Grey days for politicians - FT.com
“In effect, Italy is being asked to repeat what it achieved from 1995 onwards,...”
– The Italian Job | Gavyn Davies | Insight into macroeconomics and the financial markets from the Financial Times – FT.com
“She will not allow things to get so bad that the eurozone collapses; but she...”
– Europe must not allow Rome to burn - FT.com
Italy: a pain in the azzurri - FT.com →
Anche la LEX di FT dice che una patrimoniale non ce la leva nessuno.
Government debt is just 23 per cent of household wealth, brokers Cheuvreux say. A reforming government would impose a windfall tax on that – and ensure that it is collected. Then it would begin the structural reforms essential to free an entrepreneurial spirit cowed by years of missed opportunities. Italians should look at the...
“…below the surface of the euro area’s public debt and banking crisis lies...”
– Thinking through the unthinkable - FT.com
“«I used to think if there was reincarnation, I wanted to come back as the...”
– James Carville
Quando Sarkozy mi disse: «Usa assenti, Italia...
Quando Sarkozy mi disse: «Usa assenti, Italia senza testa» del giorno Mercoledì 9 Novembre 2011 del Corriere della Sera Quando Sarkozy mi disse: «Usa assenti, Italia senza testa» .Guerra di Libia, il diario sul campo del grande filosofo francese di BERNARD-HENRI LÉVY Giovedì 30 giugno E liseo. È lui che m’ha chiesto di venire. E me l’ha chiesto, me ne accorgerò molto...
“AOL once appeared to be the future of media, and Time Warner the past. A little...”
– Time Warner/AOL: how times change - FT.com
October 2011
5 posts
“A VP Finance is largely about “what happened” and a little about...”
– A VC: VP Finance vs CFO
“Il Giornale, a Milan daily owned by the Berlusconi family, compared Mr Sarkozy’s...”
– Berlusconi calls crisis cabinet meeting - FT.com
Mickey Drexler →
“Italy’s guarantees make up 18 per cent of the system. But this 18 per cent lacks...”
– The fallacy of the ‘big bazooka’ | The A-List | Must-read views on today’s top news stories – FT.com – FT.com
“This is where the jobs are, not at General Motors. It is about creating new...”
– Creating employment: A helping hand for start-ups | The Economist
September 2011
3 posts
“Sulla scelta delle notizie al Tg1 e di come vengono raccontate si è già ormai...”
– Approcci diversi | Wittgenstein
“Over the last 50 years, the real returns from equities have been lower than...”
– Equity investing: Buy, hold, regret | The Economist
Come si usa il cellulare nei luoghi pubblici →
Inviato da iPhone
August 2011
6 posts
Quanti senatori, stando all’ultima denuncia dei redditi disponibile, non arrivano a quel tetto che prevede la soprattassa? Il 45%, abbondante. Quanti deputati? Addirittura 378, pari al 60%. Totale: 523 parlamentari su 951 non lo pagheranno, quel raddoppio di una tantum. E gli altri lo pagheranno solo perché, oltre a quello del parlamentare, fanno troppo spesso altri lavori. Cosa che, nei...
Manuale per sopravvivere alle pene del Ferragosto...
L’estate è una lunga domenica senza calcio. È ciò che una volta mi disse un’amica con tono sconsolato. Malgrado da allora mi sia imbattuto in altre definizioni dell’estate — da Shakespeare a Tennessee Williams — nessuna ha superato per incisività e pertinenza quella della mia amica. Al punto tale che ancora oggi associo le domeniche senza calcio a una spossante sensazione di...
“The emperor is wearing clothes but it’s a Speedo”
– Equities in worst week since 2008 crisis - FT.com
Patrick O’Keefe, director of economic research at JH Cohn
“best innovators are “T-shaped”—they need to have depth in one area as well as...”
– Schumpeter: Think different | The Economist
Italian banks battered by economic winds
I saw this article when using the Financial Times app and thought you might be interested: Financial Times, 8:41pm Monday 1st August 2011 Italian banks battered by economic winds
“Even war is being outsourced: America employs more contract workers in...”
– Schumpeter: The trouble with outsourcing | The Economist
July 2011
4 posts
“It’s worrying that this time round it’s the “soft” core of the eurozone”
– Yields rise in Italian bond sale - FT.com
The Economist | Charlemagne: Ceci n’est plus un...
Charlemagne Ceci n’est plus un pays How Europe’s debt crisis could help to solve Belgium’s political impasse IN THE land of Magritte, art scarcely matches the surrealism of Belgian politics. The country has been without a proper government for more than 400 days. Earlier this year people began to worry: citizens staged protests demanding the creation of a coalition; a senator urged spouses of...
Facebook ad prices soar more than 74% →
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“E affidando tutta la forza dell’amore, tutta la volontà che sua madre...”
– Marcel Proust, Alla ricerca del tempo perduto, Dalla parte di Guermantes
June 2011
1 post
“Even kids might hazard a guess that marketing companies should subtract...”
– FT.com / Lex - Groupon IPO: the purest metric of all
May 2011
5 posts
“What it resembles most strongly is a cluster of desks at a blissfully...”
– FT.com / Lex - Glencore: a comm-oddity
“La vita è sogno, il tempo un’illusione ma intanto passa e se ne accorgono...”
– Dagospia
“Using data from the Nielsen Company to examine the top 21 news sites on the Web,...”
– How The Drudge Report Got Popular and Stayed on Top - NYTimes.com
“The choice will be between a costly bail-out and a costly default.”
– FT.com / Comment / Op-Ed Columnists - Dogmatists raise the costs of eurozone crisis
Hot potato
shitmystudentswrite:
The potato literally encouraged the Irish to overbreed.
April 2011
9 posts
Schumpeter: The case against globaloney | The... →
Far from “ripping through people’s lives”, as Arundhati Roy, an Indian writer, claims, globalisation is shaped by familiar things, such as distance and cultural ties. Mr Ghemawat argues that two otherwise identical countries will engage in 42% more trade if they share a common language than if they do not, 47% more if both belong to a trading block, 114% more if they have a common currency and...
“Certamente desolata di non avermi potuto far piacere, mi regalò una piccola...”
– Marcel Proust, All’ombra delle fanciulle in fiore.
“Se, in questa sete di divertimento, Albertine aveva qualcosa della Gilberte...”
– Marcel Proust. All’ombra delle fanciulle in fiore.
FT.com / Lex - China’s FX reserves →
Imagine that, instead of recycling US Treasuries, China really put its enormous foreign currency reserves to work. What does $3,045bn buy you, these days? Italy. Principal and interest on the entire sovereign debt stock of il bel paese, going out to 2062, comes to $3,031bn.
Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The... →
But what the ECB is in effect signaling is that no inflation in Germany will be tolerated, placing all of the burden of adjustment on deflation in the periphery. From the beginning, euroskeptics worried about one-size-fits-all monetary policy; but what we’re getting is worse: one-size-fits-one, Germany first and only. That’s a recipe for a prolonged, painful slump in the periphery; large defaults,...
Economics and Politics by Paul Krugman - The... →
People like me don’t say that the Ryan plan is too radical; we say that it’s a fraud. The spending cuts are largely fake, either because they’re just magic asterisks or because they wouldn’t survive politically; the revenue estimates are fake, because they combine huge tax cuts with vague assurances that extra revenue will be found by closing loopholes. There’s no there there — except for big tax...
Facebook shares data centre blueprint | FT Tech... →
“It’s time to stop treating data centers like fight club,”
“The deal’s code names – Project Stargate for SGX, Project Avatar for ASX –...”
– FT.com / Lex - ASX / SGX: the fantasy evaporates
“political battles over whether to cut $30bn or $60bn from next year’s budget are...”
– FT.com / Lex - US budget: saviour Private Ryan?
March 2011
10 posts
“Basel III’s 7 per cent core tier one ratio is a minimum, not a target.”
– FT.com / Lex - Italian banks: others should follow UBI Banca
“You campaign in poetry, you govern in prose.”
– Mario Cuomo
“This meeting is about politics. Facts won’t help.”
– Toby Ziegler
ESM / EFSF: An Inverted Capital Structure «... →
“Nel 2011 il numero di società quotata è analogo a quello del 1981, quando fui...”
– Guido Rossi