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Research Claims Governments Should Not Rush to Re-privatize Banks
Research, led by Professor Panicos Demetriades of the University of Leicester, suggests that privatizing government owned banks without having an effective system of regulation in place can result in a collapse of depositors’ confidence in banking....
Nicolas Sarkozy Casts the First Stone
The delegates at this year’s World Economic Forum may still be circling the wagons to guard against voices of social responsibility that might reflect Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s closing address at last year’s gathering, but they apparently...
Free No More?
Rupert Murdoch has long been looking for a way to drive a stake through the heart of the information-wants-to-be-free vampire. Is Microsoft now offering him that stake? According to a team of Financial Times reporters tracking a common story from...
Free Market Rules
Last night Saskia Scholtes and Francesco Guerrera filed a Financial Times report from New York that provided some valuable lessons about how the “free market” really works. Here is the basic story: US banks stand to collect a record $38.5bn...
The Cyberspace Audience
Those who have been following my “more formal gig” on Examiner.com know that I have taken a great interest in opportunities for concert experiences in cyberspace. Last night Laura Battle filed a story for this morning’s Financial...
CHUTZPAH on Behalf of Main Street (sort Of)
Once again I seem to find myself with the problem of facing a good Chutzpah of the Week award candidate at the beginning of the week. Admittedly, I may well be under the influence of Saturday’s premiere performance of To Big to Fail by the San...
From VARIETY to Reuters?
If I am to believe Matthew Garrahan’s report for the Financial Times, then Variety is under threat from the blogosphere. Does that mean that Variety writers are beginning to jump ship; and, if so, are they jumping to Reuters? Even more interesting,...
Beginning the First Day on the Job
There seems to be a media tradition according to which a new President is evaluated on the basis of his first 100 days in office; but there is a good chance that “Internet speed” will change all of that for Barack Obama. He may be lucky...
