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Forklifting the German miracle - world - FT.com →
During the global financial crisis, German GDP fell faster and deeper than other industrialised countries such as the US and France. Ralph Atkins, Frankfurt bureau chief, returns to Kion, the forklift truck manufacturer he visited in 2008, to report on why the way German companies bounced back caught the attention of the world.
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FT.com / Global insight - India must tread... →
An Indian diaspora is deeply rooted in east and southern Africa. Traders have plied the Indian Ocean for centuries. India, as one of the first colonies to win independence from Britain, gave inspiration to the ambitions of countless African liberation movements and leadership as the world’s largest democracy within the Non-Aligned Movement.
Today, Indian Railways runs the networks of close to a...
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“In a gesture of western solidarity, Tunisia and Egypt were invited to the Group...”
– FT.com / Middle East & North Africa - G8 offers $20bn to aid Arab democracies
Question(s): Would we be here without the Bush (43) Administration? How will historians reflect on this moment in relationship to America’s foreign policy over the last 10 years?
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FT.com / Global Economy - Internet chiefs unite... →
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“Brazil will export a lot of the strategic commodities that China needs and China...”
– FT.com / Reports - Drawn into an ever closer embrace
Great article.
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The Blackboard Monopolists by Raghuram Rajan and... →
Improving education remains one of the clearest ways that governments can make a lasting positive economic impact. A well-functioning education system is the most effective way to help equip people with the knowledge and skills they need to boost incomes and compete in a globalized economy. The key to such a system is embracing the role that competition can play in delivering better...
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Lady Google: Is Gaga About To Sign A $10 Million... →
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“All of this has led me to believe that the successful organization of the future...”
– Hierarchy and Network: Two Structures, One Organization - John Kotter - Harvard Business Review
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FT.com / Special Reports - Money for nothing – and... →
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Watch(via WordPress Interview, Part I - Video - Bloomberg
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How do firms in markets that are not traditionally a public concern, or of general consumer interest, use social media networks to improve their viability within discreet sectors?
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Watch(via BlackRock’s Fink Interview, April 19 - Video - Bloomberg
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Larry Fink discusses U.S. debt, the bond market, and the end of QE2.
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FT.com / Emerging Markets - Bric nations say... →
Progress.
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“There are about 8,000 toy companies in China, according to the...”
– Toy Prices Rise as China Wages Increase - Bloomberg
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“Zynga is already the second-most valuable U.S. game company, after Activision...”
– Zynga Is Said to Plan an Initial Share Sale by End of June - Bloomberg
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FT.com / Global Economy - Lagarde launches IMF... →
Ms Lagarde, who has already won widespread support in Europe for her candidacy, said she considered her nationality neither “a handicap, nor an advantage” in her bid for the top job in global finance.
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Zynga Is Said to Plan an Initial Share Sale by End... →
Internet companies are lining up for IPOs after shares of LinkedIn Corp., the largest professional-networking site, more than doubled in their debut last week and Yandex NV, Russia’s most popular Web-search provider, surged 55 percent yesterday. Pent-up demand for companies that have pioneered social media and foreign Internet markets is outweighing some investors’ concern that technology shares...
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Empire State Building | Office Building Efficiency... →
Fabulous work by the folks at Johnson Control. what a great project.
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“To most of us, the economic flow is more familiar than the artistic flow. Yet,...”
– ~ The Art of Business: Make All Your Work a Work of Art (via wesvilain)
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FT.com / Special Reports - Sustainable growth is... →
Entrepreneurial companies with innovative product ideas have gone to the wall because they could not expand quickly enough to meet the demand of a growing market. Historic corporate names have stumbled or even collapsed because, on the back of growth projections that turned out to be illusory or unrealistic, they bet heavily on markets or regions. Most perniciously, sensible,...
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“On the face of it, shareholder value is the dumbest idea in the world....”
– Jack Welch
FT.com / Special Reports - Sustainable growth is the new incarnation of capitalism
Brilliance.
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Central Americans meet to boost renewable energy |... →
Among the hardscrabble nations of Central America, renewable energy involves no high-falutin’ principles. It is an essential weapon in a battle for survival as well as a hope for prosperity in some of the frailest economies of the Americas.
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“The job of a leader is not to make the right decision. It’s to make sure...”
– Jamie Dimon - CEO JP Morgan Chase
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With Eye on Climate Change, Chicago Prepares for a... →
So, Chicago is getting ready for a wetter, steamier future. Public alleyways are being repaved with materials that are permeable to water. The white oak, the state tree of Illinois, has been banned from city planting lists, and swamp oaks and sweet gum trees from the South have been given new priority. Thermal radar is being used to map the city’s hottest spots, which are then targets for...
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“Barça has provided a distinctive solution to some of the most contentious...”
– Schumpeter: The Catalan kings | The Economist
Fascinating. Provides an interesting compliment to this article from Fast Company about the building of the 2010/11 Miami Heat.
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Watch(via Charlie Rose - A conversation with Jamie Dimon
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Fascinating in retrospect.
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Can Google's Chromebook Break Windows [Network... →
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Michael Mace provides his thoughts on whether or not Google’s Chromebooks can break Windows:
I wish it were true. Windows deserves to be replaced. It’s just plain old, weighted down with decades…
Interesting.
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Charlemagne: Decoding DSK | The Economist →
“I DID warn him!” These were the words supposedly uttered by France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, when he heard that Dominique Strauss-Kahn had been arrested in New York on charges of attempting to rape a hotel maid. When “DSK” moved to Washington, DC, in 2007 to take up his duties as the boss of the IMF, Mr Sarkozy is said to have told him to check his passions: he was going to a country...
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Watch(via The Great Stagnation: Why Hasn’t Recent Technology Created More Jobs? | PBS NewsHour | May 18, 2011 | PBS
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Obama Endorses 1967 Borders For Israel - WSJ.com →
U.S. President Barack Obama, seeking to place the U.S. ahead of the political tumult sweeping the Middle East, promised support and economic assistance for democratic reformers and for the first time called for the creation of a Palestinian state based on Israel’s pre-1967 borders.
Wow. What would this mean for the forward thinking energy plans being built and designed by Israeli...
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“before the iPad almost no one had a Tablet… since April 3rd 2010 nearly 5% of...”
– Digital Stats: An estimated 5% of the American population own a Tablet device (via interestingsnippets)
Innovation.
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What Matters: Has the US passed peak productivity... →
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Vietnam's economy: Fighting over the flotsam | The... →
Most may not be aware, but Vietnam has one of highest per capita growth potentials of any developing countries. Higher than Brazil, Argentina, and South Africa. Interesting post.
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Feudal IMF job process must change: by Mohamed... →
Today the issue is back on the table as the incumbent, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, battles allegations of sexual assault. Judging from the dynamics already in play, it will again be undermined by an outmoded and harmful process, that places national prestige above the multilateralism that the IMF stands for.
A wonderfully insightful, and substantial editorial from the PIMCO CEO.
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Technology's changing landscape: iConsumers | The... →
In a new report on what she calls “a post-PC world”, Sarah Rotman Epps of Forrester, a research firm, notes that there has been a proliferation of electronic devices beyond the traditional personal computer (PC). Although laptop and desktop PCs are unlikely to disappear—indeed, Forrester predicts that their sales will grow significantly over the next five years, even in relatively...
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LinkedIn Hikes IPO Price Range by 30% - WSJ.com →
The company, which is set to price Wednesday night and begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol LNKD on Thursday, had originally set out to sell 7.84 million shares at $32 to $35 apiece. In an updated filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday morning, the company set the range at $42 to $45.
The power of networks. The adaptation of social networks to...
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Sharing Information Corrupts Wisdom of Crowds →
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When people can learn what others think, the wisdom of crowds may veer towards ignorance.
In a new study of crowd wisdom — the statistical phenomenon by which individual biases cancel each other out, distilling hundreds or thousands of individual guesses into uncannily accurate average answers — researchers told test participants about their peers’ guesses. As a result, their...
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“We were able to notify displaced patients via Twitter on where to acquire...”
– BBC News - Twitter ‘vital’ link to patients, say doctors in Japan (via bijan)
Innovation.
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