Weekly newsletter 16
Best of the Week
[5]Wall Street’s Euthanasia Of Industry
Links:
5. http://b.rw/nysAaj
Bonnie Faulkner & Michael Hudson | Michael Hudson | 16 July 2011
Blistering critique of Obama's fiscal policy by economics professor.
Interview covers debt ceiling, Greece, China, bank bailouts. Opening
question: What is a jobless recovery? Answer: We call that a depression
[6]Comments
Links:
6. http://thebrowser.com/articles/wall-street’s-euthanasia-industry
[7]Google+ Is The Social Backbone
Links:
7. http://b.rw/n8JOqN
Edd Dumbill | O'Reilly Radar | 19 July 2011
Superb analysis. Openness and interoperability is potential game-changer.
And what Facebook can't offer. "Google+ is the rapidly growing seed of a
web-wide social backbone, and catalyst for the ultimate uniting of the
social graph" [8]Comments
Links:
8. http://thebrowser.com/articles/google-social-backbone
[9]How We Broke The Murdoch Scandal
Links:
9. http://b.rw/rdKZV8
Alan Rusbridger | Newsweek | 18 July 2011
By 2009, life was getting lonely for The Guardian, whose reporter Nick
Davies had been pursuing the case doggedly. "Brooks had told colleagues that
the story was going to end with 'Alan Rusbridger on his knees, begging for
mercy'" [10]Comments
Links:
10. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-we-broke-murdoch-scandal
[11]Mastering The Machine
Links:
11. http://b.rw/pLxhip
John Cassidy | New Yorker | 18 July 2011
Profile of Ray Dalio, head of Bridgewater Associates, world's strangest
hedge fund. Macro-economist, aspirational philosopher, radically transparent
manager. And hunter. Not only of profits but buffalo. Armed with bow and
arrow [12]Comments
Links:
12. http://thebrowser.com/articles/mastering-machine
[13]The Rape Of Men
Links:
13. http://b.rw/pHyWSJ
Will Storr | Observer | 17 July 2011
Remarkably powerful, harrowing piece of writing on a topic -- male rape --
that is largely ignored by UN, governments and aid agencies. "Of all the
secrets of war, there is one that is so well kept that it exists mostly as a
rumour" [14]Comments
Links:
14. http://thebrowser.com/articles/rape-men
[15]How One Man Hacked His Way Into The Slot-Machine Industry
Links:
15. http://b.rw/o0Gixd
Brendan Koerner | Wired | 15 July 2011
Astonishing story of the inventive, illegal behaviour of Rodolfo Rodriguez
Cabrera. Mastermind of global counterfeit slot-machine business. His problem
was that he became too successful. Now in Texan prison, stateless
[16]Comments
Links:
16. http://thebrowser.com/articles/how-one-man-hacked-his-way-slot-machine-industry
[17]The War For Catch-22
Links:
17. http://b.rw/oLfyaW
Tracy Daugherty | Vanity Fair | 21 June 2011
On the complex genesis of great anti-war book. Started off as Catch-18.
Proof sent to Evelyn Waugh, who replied: "I am sorry that the book
fascinates you so much. It has many passages quite unsuitable to a lady’s
reading" [18]Comments
Links:
18. http://thebrowser.com/articles/war-catch-22
[19]Obituary: Lucian Freud
Links:
19. http://b.rw/ro8xf3
Anonymous | Telegraph | 21 July 2011
Grandson of Sigmund Freud. Expelled from school for bringing dogs into
chapel. At least 13 children by five mothers. "Portrait of a Benefits
Supervisor" fetched $33.6m in 2008, world record price for work by living
painter [20]Comments
Links:
20. http://thebrowser.com/articles/obituary-lucian-freud
FiveBooks Interview
[21]Colin Thubron on Travel Writing
Links:
21. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-thubron-on-travel-writing
The much-travelled author reflects on more than 40 years of writing about
other cultures and shares his own favourite travel reading with us [22]Read
on
Links:
22. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/colin-thubron-on-travel-writing
Featured Topic
[23]Financial Crisis
Links:
23. 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 [24]Read on
Links:
24. http://thebrowser.com/topics/financial-crisis
Reader Recommendations
_@polit2k_ Schumpeter: Great bad men as bosses | The Economist -
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25. http://goo.gl/AuRwJ
26. https://twitter.com/search?q=#browsings
27. http://thebrowser.com/browsings
Book of the Week
[28]Book of the Day
Links:
28. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/paradiso-by-jose-lezama-lima
[29]Paradiso by Jose Lezama Lima
Links:
29. http://thebrowser.com/recommended/paradiso-by-jose-lezama-lima
[30]Oscar Hijuelos says: “This book is the first really true magical realist
novel. It is a really amazing novel that most people don’t seem to have
heard of” [31]FiveBooks Archive
Links:
30. http://thebrowser.com/interviews/oscar-hijuelos-on-cuba
31. http://thebrowser.com/fivebooks
Video of the Week
[32]Space Shuttle: Complete Missions
Links:
32. http://thebrowser.com/videos/space-shuttle-complete-missions
Thirty years, 135 missions, two shuttles lost. In chronological order
[33]More videos
Links:
33. http://thebrowser.com/videos
Quote of the Week
[34]Tyler Cowen, on the euro
Links:
34. http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2011/07/the-gang-of-six-plan.html
"France gave birth to it, faltered, and left it on the doorstop of some
distant, passive-aggressive German parents. They are willing to feed the
thing, but not to pay the bill at Harvard"
[35]More quotes
Links:
35. http://thebrowser.com/quotations
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