Financial Times Guide to Pensions and Wealth in Retirement (Financial Times Series)
Ismailimail (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
October 29, 2009 London, 29 October 2009 – Liaquat Ahamed today won the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award 2009 for Lords of Finance: 1929, The Great Depression, and the Bankers Who Broke the World, published by William Heinemann. The Award was presented today at a gala dinner [...]
Conservation Value Notes (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
If you'd have told me 15 years ago that we'd be seeing stories like this about global warming in the Financial Times, I'd have asked what you'd been smokin' And yet here we are: Jacqueline McGlade, director of the European Environment Agency, says: “The amount of ice that is being lost is far more than we thought. Greenland is warming faster than the computer models predicted, and that is a worry.”...
The Bridge (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
The head of the world’s largest pharmaceuticals company praised the Senate finance committee’s latest draft He rejected suggestions from critics that there would be “an enormous offsetting windfall from new customers” as a result of additional cover provided by the...
Nieman Journalism Lab (Free subscription) | 07/11/2009
How exclusivity built a community at the FT’s finance blog, which gets 500k monthly uniques http://tr.im/EkF2 » The new newsroom: Great slideshow of Gawker Media’s “steampunk” offices http://tr.im/EkLb (HT @carr2n) » The new Chicago News Co-Op needs much more funding to cover costs. Editor paying himself $0 in first year http://tr.im/EkU3 » In Twitter lists,...
Leftnews.org (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
“The storm clouds over Opel’s sprawling headquarters in Rüsselsheim, near Frankfurt, southern Germany, may have given way to sunshine just as workers switched shifts early on Wednesday afternoon, but the mood remained black.” GM will cut 10,000 jobs at Opel in Rüsselsheim.
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Anglican Mainstream (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
From C of E Website An article in today’s Financial Times, headed ‘Vicars’ pensions under threat as church is seduced by equities cult’, is misconceived and fails to take adequate account of the scheme’s relative age compared to other schemes, says Dr Jonathan Spencer, Chairman of the Church of England Pensions Board: “The scheme concerned is responsible [...]
SeekingAlpha.com (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Tim Iacono submits: Here's some more food for thought from the Financial Times for the many bubble-deniers in the world, such as Jim Rogers as seen in this item previously. The British business daily seems to be full of "bubble stories" in recent weeks, just a few days ago publishing Nouriel Roubini's Mother of all carry trades faces an inevitable bust . China rushes towards a Japan-style...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
SHENZHEN, China, Nov. 4 /PRNewswire-Asia-FirstCall/ -- Mindray Medical International Limited (NYSE: MR), a leading developer, manufacturer and marketer of medical devices worldwide, announced today that Mr. Ronald Ede, Chief Financial Officer, will participate in a panel discussion at the Financial Times' Global Pharmaceutical and Biotechnology Conference, which will be held at the Millennium Mayfair...
Grasping Reality with Both Hands (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
When Ned Phelps wrote: >A fruitless clash of economic opposites: In the theory wars, which are as much wars over policy choices, two very bad kinds of theories are driving out good theories. Keynesian economics, which had been nearly forgotten inside the macro field, has found new voices from outside. They take the position that fiscal “stimulus” of all kinds is effective against slumps...
the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
The ridiculously named Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award for 2009 has gone to Lords of Finance by Liaquat Ahamed (see The Penguin Press publicity page , or get your copy from Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk ), and Andrew Hill reports on the prize and winner in the Financial Times , in Echoes from history .
CapitalClimate (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
The lead editorial in today's Financial Times newspaper strongly endorses a science-based climate change policy: As next month’s Copenhagen conference approaches, politicians should not be distracted by the apparently growing volume of sceptical voices challenging the need for global action against climate change. Some of the sceptics may have scientific backgrounds but they are not in the mainstream...
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