Links: 2010-01-07
Below are the links for stories through this morning. I am still playing catch-up as I had some server issues earlier in the day. If I see anything significant later, I may do another links post in the evening. As usual, many more links are available at the news feed (which is also available as an RSS feed).
Today’s must read post:
A breakdown in our values | Klaus Schwab |Comment is free |The Guardian
Other links:
- FT.com – Unicredit to raise 4bn with rights issue
- Iceland president warns UK government over Icesave referendum | Business | guardian.co.uk
- Aussie Dollar Rises to 25-Year High Versus Pound on Commodities – Bloomberg.com
- FT.com – The soap opera of Chinas housing boom
- BBC News – House prices ‘up on a year ago’
- Ireland is eighth-biggest loser – Independent.ie (seven other places with steeper house price declines)
- FT.com – Euro wobbles as Stark says EU will not bail out Greece
- Coal? Sold! to the Developing World | Gregor.us
- FT.com – Martin Wolf – The eurozone’s next decade will be tough
- Bernanke Absolves Greenspan–And Himself – Forbes.com
- Global Boom Builds for Epic Bust: Peter Boone and Simon Johnson – Bloomberg.com
- Is There a Whisper Campaign to Oust Larry Summers? | The Atlantic Wire
- Why the Punditocracy is Wrong About the Google Phone – Paul Kedrosky
- Google’s Nexus One Takes a Step Forward – WSJ.com
- Dell, AT&T to Sell Smart Phone in U.S. – WSJ.com (The key point of this story is android being sold by AT&T)
“It is very important for Alistair Darling and Gordon Brown and all the others to realise that a few minutes after they speak to their home audience in Britain everything they say is being talked about in Icelandic fishing plants, and every village and every office. Indeed, we live in a global village where leaders in Britain can have a negative or a positive impact on a referendum in Iceland,” said Grímsson.”
Grimsson is appearing more and more the authentic populist leader. All the more power to him. The British and Dutch banks that so thoroughly fleeced the Icelandic people earlier are now trying to get blood out of a stone. Would that we had political leaders with a vision like his. All we produce are whores and cowards, and those in great profusion.