Mark Carney to review female representation on bank notes … Sir Winston Churchill will feature on the new £5 note to enter circulation in 2016 … Which woman should go on a banknote next? Bank of England governor Mark Carney will look at the women represented on banknotes by the end of July. Mr Carney said he believed that those chosen should represent the diversity of great Briti...Read More
Carney Has Already Proven Himself a Great Communicator … Mark Carney avoids trap that caught Ben Bernanke at the Fed Bank of England monetary policy committee takes cue from governor as interest rates and quantitative easing stay on hold … Bank of England governor Mark Carney is nothing if not a fast learner. Last month Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke illustrated how panicky the...Read More
Horror Film as Neocon Fantasy … In 2013 it would be politically incorrect to portray white conquerors mowing down non-whites (although that's still sometimes okay to do with Muslims), so we turn to the undead as a stand-in for the unwashed hordes who threatened us in the days of yore. Zombies are convenient, of course, because they are not necessarily specific to any particular race or c...Read More
ElBaradei tops list to head Egypt government … Mohamed ElBaradei, a former U.N. nuclear agency chief, is favorite to head a transitional government in Egypt after the military overthrew Islamist President Mohammed Mursi, military, political and diplomatic sources said on Thursday. ElBaradei, 71, was mandated by the main alliance of liberal and left-wing parties, the National Salvation Front,...Read More
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi was forced out of office Wednesday by the Egyptian military and opposition leaders, just a couple of hours after the Obama Administration voiced its first public doubts about Morsi's handling of the massive street protests that spread across the country in recent days. Egyptian Army Chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi took to state television to announce that the head o...Read More
Celebrity Economists Make Waves – At Work … Who are people turning to nowadays for business advice? Celebrity economists. Big-name experts on the economy like Paul Krugman, Joseph Stiglitz, Michael Porter, Robert Reich and Muhammad Yunus feature prominently in a new ranking of influential business thinkers compiled for The Wall Street Journal. – AP/WSJournalDominant Social Theme:...Read More
Mark Carney to review female representation on bank notes … Sir Winston Churchill will feature on the new £5 note to enter circulation in 2016 … Which woman should go on a banknote next? Bank of England governor Mark Carney will look at the women represented on banknotes by the end of July. Mr Carney said he believed that those chosen should represent the diversity of great Briti...Read More
Carney Has Already Proven Himself a Great Communicator … Mark Carney avoids trap that caught Ben Bernanke at the Fed Bank of England monetary policy committee takes cue from governor as interest rates and quantitative easing stay on hold … Bank of England governor Mark Carney is nothing if not a fast learner. Last month Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke illustrated how panicky the...Read More
Horror Film as Neocon Fantasy … In 2013 it would be politically incorrect to portray white conquerors mowing down non-whites (although that's still sometimes okay to do with Muslims), so we turn to the undead as a stand-in for the unwashed hordes who threatened us in the days of yore. Zombies are convenient, of course, because they are not necessarily specific to any particular race or c...Read More
As Mark Carney arrives at the Bank of England, are we seeing the end of QE? … Mark Carney votes for the first time on the Monetary Policy Committee … will be a seminal decision, albeit one the rest of the country won't discover until the minutes are published on July 17. The new Bank of England Governor has to choose whether to follow his predecessor Sir Mervyn King and call for mo...Read More
Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, and others plan July 4 protest against NSA surveillance A large coalition of civil rights and privacy groups and potentially thousands of websites will stage protests on the Fourth of July to protest surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency. As part of the Restore the Fourth campaign, many website members of the 30,000-member Internet Defense League pl...Read More
A failure to care about the public's money … There has been a breach of governance at the BBC that has 'put public trust at risk' – a serious charge that urgently needs addressing … Over the past three years, 150 managers received a total of £25 million in severance payments – and 10 of the most senior executives accounted for more than £5 million of...Read More
Wonkbook: Is this the laziest Congress ever? On Monday, simply by doing nothing, they allowed the interest rate on student loans to double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. That might be permissible if they were busy with more important things, like inventing a cure for cancer that's also a source of endless clean energy. But they're not even working this week. The 112th Congress passed 22...Read More
The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman … No popular idea ever has a single origin. But the idea that the sole purpose of a firm is to make money for its shareholders got going in a major way with an article by Milton Friedman in the New York Times on September 13, 1970. As the leader of the Chicago school of economics, and the winner of Nobel Prize in Economics...Read More
Katie Couric isn't happy about gossipy new direction for 'Katie,' say insiders … A planned shift to more gossip on 'Katie' does not sit well with star Katie Couric, say insiders. Katie Couric's talk show, "Katie," is taking a turn in the wrong direction — according to her, anyway. Confidenti@l has learned the syndicated daytime show will be "gossi...Read More
As Mark Carney arrives at the Bank of England, are we seeing the end of QE? … Mark Carney votes for the first time on the Monetary Policy Committee … will be a seminal decision, albeit one the rest of the country won't discover until the minutes are published on July 17. The new Bank of England Governor has to choose whether to follow his predecessor Sir Mervyn King and call for mo...Read More
Reddit, Mozilla, WordPress, and others plan July 4 protest against NSA surveillance A large coalition of civil rights and privacy groups and potentially thousands of websites will stage protests on the Fourth of July to protest surveillance programs at the U.S. National Security Agency. As part of the Restore the Fourth campaign, many website members of the 30,000-member Internet Defense League pl...Read More
A failure to care about the public's money … There has been a breach of governance at the BBC that has 'put public trust at risk' – a serious charge that urgently needs addressing … Over the past three years, 150 managers received a total of £25 million in severance payments – and 10 of the most senior executives accounted for more than £5 million of...Read More
Wonkbook: Is this the laziest Congress ever? On Monday, simply by doing nothing, they allowed the interest rate on student loans to double, from 3.4 percent to 6.8 percent. That might be permissible if they were busy with more important things, like inventing a cure for cancer that's also a source of endless clean energy. But they're not even working this week. The 112th Congress passed 22...Read More
The Origin Of 'The World's Dumbest Idea': Milton Friedman … No popular idea ever has a single origin. But the idea that the sole purpose of a firm is to make money for its shareholders got going in a major way with an article by Milton Friedman in the New York Times on September 13, 1970. As the leader of the Chicago school of economics, and the winner of Nobel Prize in Economics...Read More