Two titles on trade secrets
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It seems that the IPKat's friends at Oxford University Press are trying to corner the market for publications in the area of trade secrecy. For, just when the second edition of Gurry, enrobed in its magisterial jacket of red, breaks forth from the le...
The Closer
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ROUND-UP The FT’s markets round-up: The FTSE All-World equity index rose 0.3 per cent after an earlier decline, and copper fell 0.2 per cent to $3.31 a pound, pointing...
P.A.R.T.S. New Works (III)
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This evening we went back to the Kaaistudio for the third and last instalment of P.A.R.T.S.’s New Works (see my previous post here). An important element in the P.A.R.T.S. course is research and with that comes reflection, starting from the b...
"Albert Einstein's famous 1905 paper on relativity was not peer reviewed"
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Australian palaeoclimatologist and - climate realist - Bob Carter explains why the "gold standard" of peer reviewed climate science is not what people like R.K. Pachauri pretend it is: Peer review is a technique of quality control...
Good News and Bad News
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That’s 1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York.We didn’t actually see the editors of some of the world’s most famous newspapers walking into the building to...
Charts and fact du jour, US personal income edition
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From a new CreditSights note on US personal incomes:Nominal income growth since the recessionary trough has been lagging that of most prior recoveries, and the trough itself was quite deep....
A delicate proposal
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A new report from the president of the European Council tries to split the difference between France and Germany...
A delicate proposal
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HOW TO resolve the euro's woes? Angela Merkel says Germany will not agree to pool sovereign debt or share banking liabilities with other countries until there is greater political union. François Hollande says France cannot accept the loss of so...
What’s been pushing up US repo rates?
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A few things, actually — it’s not all Operation Twist.Dealer holdings of US Treasuries have been climbing since the middle of last year, enlarging the pool of collateral...
Finding Ways To Make Cheap Calls To Anywhere You Want
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In today's world there are lots of families that are spread out. There are people who have family members living in another country. With this distance, sometimes it can be difficult to communicate with one another. Thankfully, communication technolo...
Council leader faces axe over £210,000 chauffeur-driven travel
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The leader of Leicestershire County Council stands to be given the boot by his Tory colleagues next month after clocking up bills of more than £200,000 on chauffeur-driven travel. The last straw for came for David Parsons when it emerged he had been...
Cyprus's request for a bailout greatly raises the fear of contagion | Charlie Charalambous
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Cyprus has finally run out of quick-fix solutions to save its economy - just as it takes the reins of the EU presidencyThe timing could not be worse. Just days before Cyprus is due to take up the European Union's presidency and the task of guiding Eu...
China’s remarkable short USD position
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Remember the days when Chinese banks used to routinely drain dollars from Chinese corporates? The days when the Chinese corporate sector was a net dollar seller?Those days, it seems,...
Science: it's a girl thing...Pulled videos: a Commission thing?
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I had posted, some time ago, a video on European enlargement, produced for the European Commission, that was accused of being racist.... I thought it was a clumsy attempt to capture young audiences, but that it did not strike me as racist; especially...
A Cyprus liquidity switch
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The world’s 81st-biggest island fell off the European Central Bank’s collateral lists on Tuesday. At least its sovereign debt did.From an ECB statement to FT Alphaville:...
Merkel comes out swinging against debt pooling
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Debt pooling in practice? (h/t Phil's Stock World)In recent weeks Chancellor Merkel has come under ever-increasing pressure to “do what is necessary” and take the plunge on debt pooling within the eurozone. This pressure has been applied from a w...
100 000 Suspected Adverse Drugs Reactions
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In an unusual move the European Medicines Agency has criticised the Roche pharmaceutical company for not analysing and reporting on over 100 000 suspected adverse drug reactions in the US and elsewhere. About 80 000 reports from a company sponsored &...
Divergence in the Euro-Zone: Famous, Obscure and Predictable Facts
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In a previous post about the theory of optimum currency areas (OCA), asymmetric shocks, structural problems and the intrinsic need that this creates for the institution of a fiscal union, I argued that incomplete by monetary unions (i.e.: lacking a &...
The Ukrainian government is losing two PR battles
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THE Ukrainian government is not good at PR. This week has seen another blunder, as Yulia Tymoshenko was summoned to two court hearings on the two days' break in Euro 2012. The jailing of the former prime minister and de facto opposition leader has al...
Hungarian Central Bank Sees Economy in Recession
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Hungary's central bank released new forecasts indicating that the country's economy will go into recession this year.
The end of impunity for bankers? How Spain’s indignados are using crowdfunding to bring them to justice
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Following the collapse of the bank he was running until earlier this year, Rodrigo Rato probably thought he would be able to slip into a quiet, if tarnished retirement. A former managing director of the IMF and minister of the economy during Spain...
Hacker Claims to Have Compromised Kremlin Critic’s Email
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A day after Alexei Navalny, a popular leader of opposition protests and an anticorruption and shareholder activist was elected as independent director of Russia’s flag carrier Aeroflot, his e-mail and Twitter accounts were compromised, and an alleg...
