Newsletter 194
[1]Technology In 2011
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Walter Mossberg | WSJ | 30 December 2010
Dean of technology writers foresees a new wave of competitors for Apple
products; another run at social networking from Google; golden opportunity
for Microsoft to capitalise on Kinect; fading enthusiasm for RIM's
Blackberries
[2]Don’t Expect Markets To Bend It Like Beckham
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John Kay | FT | 28 December 2010
You win by spotting points of imperfection, whether in sport or in finance.
"The people who make money, either as entrepreneurs or as traders, are those
who find those profit opportunities that have not already been taken"
[3]March Of Folly In Pakistan
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Anatole Lieven | IHT | 29 December 2010
Situation is bad in Afghanistan. But US will make things far worse if it
sends ground forces into Pakistan in pursuit of Taliban. Part of Pakistan
military will want to fight back, dividing army, plunging country into chaos
[4]Why the Rich Are Getting Richer
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Robert Lieberman | Foreign Affairs | 30 December 2010
Review of Hacker and Pierson's "Winner-Take-All Politics", arguing that
America's rising inequality results not from market forces as such, but from
40 years of public policies that have rigged the markets in favour of the
rich
[5]View full selection
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Today's FiveBooks Interview
[6]Best of the year: Simon Brett on =WHODUNNITS=
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6. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-brett-on-whodunnits
In the golden age of crime, it was wonderful: Hercule Poirot would get them
all in the library and say, ‘For zees reazons you deed it…’ and they’d go
off and be hanged, end of story. [7]Continue reading…
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7. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/simon-brett-on-whodunnits
Topic
[8]Financial Crisis
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8. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis
In-depth primer for both the expert and the amateur. Experts interviewed
include Eichengreen, Barro and Rodrik. Wide range of hand-picked background
articles
[9]Continue reading…
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9. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis
Book of the Day
[10]The Big Sleep
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10. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/big-sleep-by-raymond-chandler
-by Raymond Chandler -
I think the writing is just so beautiful. Raymond Chandler’s hopeless at
plots, as we know. He said himself, if he couldn’t think of what to do, he
brought in a man with a gun. He’s very economical with his words. And also
he can do something that very few writers can do; he can actually use a joke
to increase tension rather than release tension. Normally we think of comic
relief: you build up the tension and then you break it with a joke. But
Chandler could actually make the tension tighter with a joke, which I think
is a great achievement.
[11]More recommendations…
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Browsings
[12]polit2k P2P Banking cuts out the middleman | Bankers' bonuses: don't get
mad – get even – Telegraph Blogs [13]t.co/UX9slfp
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More user recommended #browsings…
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