A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean?” The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: :: Update...
Read MoreAgain, I’ll use the wee hours of the night (in the US) to remind you not to miss Fran’s indispensable European Breakfast threads over at the European Tribune. It’s a full press review, commented and amplified...
Read MoreAn important day today in the diplomatic manoeuvers around Syria, with the joint presentation at the UN Security Council of a very tough resolution on Syria by the USA and France.
Below, I will try to make some sense of what happened, how we got to that point, why France is working hand-in-hand with the USa there and what it means in terms of likelihood of a war with Syria.
title edited from earlier “Syria @ UN: regime change on the cheap and why France is cooperating” which was too long to fit in
Read MoreChristopher Caldwell, the conservative – but sane – senior editor of the Weekly Standard, comes up with another interesting column in this week-end’s Financial Times, where he discusses the economic merits of a minimum wage, which he claims are unconvincing, but nevertheless ends up supporting an increase in such minimum wage for social and political reasons.
His arguments make a lot of sense, and show exactly what the Dems should fight for:
Read MoreGreenspan had a big speech on oil (via the Energy Bulletin) two days ago.
Journalists focused mostly on his upbeat pronouncement that higher oil prices would have a real, but limited, impact on growth.
I would like to focus on some ignored parts of his speech which deserve a new countdown diary, despite the lack of headline-generating spot oil prices.
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