Brief post - also out of the Cable talk - on efficacy of QE
Vince Cable explains that the City is a bit like the oil company compounds in Gabon - surrounded by barbed wire, paying a levy to government, but otherwise distant from the host country
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What is the balance of the ideological, tactical and necessary in the axe-wielding plans for the UK public sector announced today?
Why can't the BBC talk about football like the French? oD's Editor-in-Chief asks why the Corporation's flagship morning news programme Today makes a fascinating question so dull.
Collecting some thoughts on the public service new media
Playing with Google's "motion" widget for data visualisation
Has the battle to reform finance in the UK already turned into a victory lap for the City? The indications from Liberal Democrat Secretary of State Vince Cable are ominous
Will democracy be built around currency, or will currency revert to national democracies?
The 1/2 trillion Euro bail-out has calmed markets and handed power to the center
Negotiations are hard things because they have so many moving parts. For those following the UK election here's a wiki-map decision theory approach to Clegg's choice. Conclusion: do a deal with the Tories today, do a PR deal with the rainbow coalition in 1 year. (Please go in and change the map wh
