it is dochs oars, sûnt 2001

Overwegingen | 1012

Merkwaardig, dat het altijd 'hit or miss' is met Stephen Fry --- die vanaf hedenavond per taxi alle Amerikaanse staten langsgaat [BBC1 22:00 cet]; Of ik vind hem geweldig, of het is irritant dat hij denkt enkel te kunnen volstaan met ...

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Overwegingen | 1014

Zo veel sporters, en zo veel problemen met drugs of doping. Maar mijn probleem is dat ik al te vaak over die onderwerpen heb geschreven; Vul negen jaar een weblog, als dit, en het bijeffect is dat je eigen woorden steeds ...

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Overwegingen | 1020

De historicus in mij is altijd bezig met het aanleggen van dossiers. En gezien de stand van de techniek, gaat dat al geruime tijd vrijwel geheel elektronisch; Nu is extra opslagcapaciteit voor al die digitale bestanden niet duur, en bovendien bestaat ...

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Overwegingen | 1022

Eén van de herhaalde conclusies op boeklog is dat er nauwelijks sterkere plots zijn te bedenken voor een roman dan een liefdesverhaal. Alleen wordt zo'n liefdesverhaal pas sterk als er belemmeringen zijn die verhinderen dat ze elkaar krijgen; Dus is het ...

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Overwegingen | 1027

In doorgaand crisisnieuws: niet het dalen van de beurskoersen is interessant, Nederlandse media; graag zou ik meer lezen over de komende krach van de euro; Gezien de enorme bedragen die banken uit de eurozone geleend hebben aan Oost-Europa, Latijns-Amerika, en ontwikkelende ...

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Overwegingen | 1102

Honden houden niet van muziek --- ze begrijpen er niets van; Arme Nipper; Historici willen dat de Kamer tegen invoering van de historische canon gaat stemmen [pdf]; Ze komen wel een beetje laat met hun kritiek --- maar ja, dat heb ...

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Overwegingen | 1107

Erg onveilig [pdf] woon ik niet, maar dat was me eerlijk gezegd al opgevallen; Sinds de komst van een Politieacademie --- wie denkt er bij zo'n naam niet aan die reeks films --- hebben we bovendien de meest pietluttige agenten; Want, of ...

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Overwegingen | 1114

Het bezit van een weblog komt met verplichtingen, die niemand voelt behalve ikzelf. Zo hik ik er al een tijd tegenaan om hier toch eens mijn gedachten vast te leggen over de financiële crisis; Tegelijk heb ik me tegen anderen allang ...

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Overwegingen | 1120

Omdat Albert Heijn nu met affiches benadrukt hoe goedkoop de blikjes tomatenpuree er zijn, vermoed ik dat het bedrijf de blikjes onder de kostprijs verkoopt; Maar dan ook alleen deze blikjes; Modern dilemma: blijf je onder de luifel van de supermarkt wachten ...

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Overwegingen | 1202

Ik las de boektitel Activeer je spierketens door kringspieroefeningen--- van mevrouw Rita Beintema --- en bedacht me met boeklog werkelijk hele genres gewoon te negeren;  ((Goed, eigenlijk is dat de subtitel, en heet het boek: Herstel zelf je spierkracht. Kniesoor.)) Wat ...

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Overwegingen | 1229

Vreemdste nieuws van de laatste weken? Dat bericht over die plastisch chirurg die gratis auto rijdt op het vet dat hij uit zijn patiënten zuigt. Biodiesel kan ook gemaakt worden uit het restafval van liposucties; Niet dat ik dit nieuws geloof ...

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Overwegingen | 14

Is het toeval of timing dat de Europese Commissie vandaag weer eens een recordboete oplegt aan Microsoft?; Misschien zakt de dollar nog wel verder weg dan het record $ 1,50 = € 1,00; Ondertussen blijft de Nederlandse overheid ijzerenheinig zakendoen met ...

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Overwegingen | 16

Kosten JSF-project onverwacht hoger dan gepland; Onverwacht voor wie, denk ik dan? Niet voor mij, in elk geval; Merkwaardig toch, dat de vaderlandse politici blind optimisme zo vaak koppelen aan een enorme naïeviteit --- waardoor tamelijk voorspelbaar ontwikkelingen hen altijd weer totaal onverwacht ...

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Overwegingen | 1e Paasdag 2010

Ik herinner me een tijd dat Apple nog advertentieruimte moest kopen om zijn producten te promoten; Eigenlijk zou ik een aflevering van 'Help, ik moet met de media omgaan' horen te wijden aan dit bazelstuk van mevrouw Roethof. Dat is een ...

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Overwegingen | 20

De laatste keer dat ik het postkantoor binnenstapte, hoefde ik niet eens op mijn beurt te wachten; Aan het eind van de middag, nota bene. Een tijdstip waarop het anders stervensdruk was; Vervolgens mocht ik weliswaar mijn brief nog laten wegen, maar ...

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Overwegingen | 28

De bij het mengen zo nuttige kleur magenta is genoemd naar de slag bij Magenta; Maar blijkbaar alleen omdat de kleur in datzelfde jaar ontdekt werd. 1859; Telefoonbedrijf T-Mobile claimt nu overal het alleenrecht op het gebruik van de kleur magenta. De ...

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Overwegingen | 47

The Engineers Guide to Cats; Uiteindelijk de vrolijkste beelden vandaag;   Maar dat het al weer vijfentwintig jaar geleden is dat Henny Kuiper zijn wiel kapot reed, in de finale van Parijs-Roubaix; Ik zie hem er nog staan; Sommige beelden, maar vooral de herinnering aan ...

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Paulos on Global Warming

the consequences of our decisions need not occur in the distant future for us to discount them. They can occur far away or after so many steps as to seem distant. John Allen Paulos: 'An Inconvenient Puzzle' A link to all Paulos' ...

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Peter Drucker [1909 – 2005]

From a Forbes interview [2004]: You know, I was the first one to talk about leadership 50 years ago, but there is too much talk, too much emphasis on it today and not enough on effectiveness. The only thing you can ...

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Peter Drucker [1909 – 2005] ii

Management theory has not evolved into the world's most rigorous or enticing intellectual discipline. But in Peter Drucker it at least found a champion whom every educated person should take the trouble to read. The Economist

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Piskijker
week 9

Het mechanisme is inmiddels duidelijk. De politicus Geert Wilders laat weleens een boertje. Meer gebeurt er niet. Maar in plaats van die valse lucht te negeren, wordt de oprisping vervolgens door de media beschreven alsof er een orkaan aan land ...

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Piskijker | ii

Het rapport van Lombard Street Research voor de PVV: Netherlands and the euro [pdf] Eerste indruk is: een zeer zwak rapport. Een counterfactual analysis volgens het stramien: als Nederland buiten de euro was gebleven had dit en dat plaatsgevonden. Daarbij is ...

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Politieke verslaggeving

Journalisten menen dat het volstaat om twee kanten te laten zien van een verhaal. 'HIj zei' wordt maar al te makkelijk gezet tegenover 'zij zei'. Dat mechanisme ergert me gauw. Helemaal als er meer speelt, zoals in de casus Ella ...

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Prettige afdronk

Boekhandel Amazon.com verkoopt tegenwoordig ook verse levensmiddelen online. Gezien de enorme verzendkosten, en de tijd die zo'n pakje uit de VS erover doet, is het niet vreselijk boeiend voor ons om daar melk te kopen. Maar Amazon zou Amazon niet ...

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Quote of the Day | 0515

Harlequin is a major player in what is so far the world's most successful market for electronic literature. While other publishers shrink from e-readers like lisping villains faced with a fully flexed Fabio, Harlequin and its competitors have found their ...

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Quote of the Day | 0101

8 April. The morning spent paying bills: British Gas (and electricity), Thames Water, Yorkshire Water, Camden Council, Craven District Council and Mr Redhead the coal merchant in Ingleton. Many of the bills are overdue, about which I am unrepentant. The ...

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Quote of the Day | 0101

SPIEGEL: People don't die in the financial crisis ... Kopper: ... but values do -- in every sense of the word. Former Deutsche Bank CEO Hilmar Kopper: 'Money Needs Laws'

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Quote of the Day | 0106

So what exactly did the bailout accomplish? It built a banking system that discriminates against community banks, makes Too Big to Fail banks even Too Bigger to Failier, increases risk, discourages sound business lending and punishes savings by making it ...

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Quote of the Day | 0108

Whether we are dealing with banks, taxation, security, religion, or climate change, we need more than ever to find ways of encouraging, not penalizing, news organizations that try to report matters of the greatest complexity and significance. The financial crisis ...

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Quote of the Day | 0108

Professional pundits are not usually paid to make correct forecasts. They are paid to sound convincing, whether they are columnists or figureheads for asset managers. Tim Harford, 'Of foxes, hedgehogs and the art of financial forecasting'

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Quote of the Day | 0109

But back to our era's defining mania: resentment over positive externalities. Many people and companies have concluded that if someone, somewhere, is getting value from their labour, that they should get a cut of that value. Irish newspapers are paying ...

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Quote of the Day | 0111

SPIEGEL: Do you understand the German fear of becoming the main financial contributor to a so-called transfer union, where the richer members of the euro zone would subsidize the poorer ones? Schwarzenberg: Of course I understand it. The only thing is, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0112

The picture of the real Adam Smith this reveals is of a true ‘friend of commerce’, supporting the project because of its achievements and its even greater potential, but constructively critical about both the shortcomings of the mercantilist society he ...

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Quote of the Day | 0112

What Europe needs is not an Airbus to Google’s Boeing but thousands of nimble enterprises that operate on a level playing field with big American companies. This will not happen until we treat certain types of data as part of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0113

Even if this eventually works in the sense that internal devaluation has worked in the Baltics — that is, in the narrow sense that Europe’s troubled economies avoid default and devaluation — it will be an ugly process, leaving much ...

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Quote of the Day | 0114

If the European Union were to become stronger and had a common fiscal as well as monetary policy (both of which together would turn it into a single country), in the long run, Greece and Portugal would benefit the most. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0116

The copyright wars are just the beta version of a long coming war on computation. The entertainment industry is just the first belligerents to take up arms, and we tend to think of them as particularly successful. After all, here ...

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Quote of the Day | 0117

European political leaders may be about to agree to a fiscal plan which, if implemented, could push Europe into a major depression. To understand why, it is useful to compare how European countries responded to downturns in demand before and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0121

The growing concentration of the world’s wealth has been highlighted by a report showing that the 26 richest billionaires own as many assets as the 3.8 billion people who make up the poorest half of the planet’s population. World's 26 richest ...

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Quote of the Day | 0122

So, the starting point for me, when thinking about how economics works as a discipline, is to realize that the traditional model of submit, get refereed, publish, and then people will read your work broke down a long time ago. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0125

the external costs of all transport have now been estimated at €1,000 billion annually, or 7% of the GDP of the 28 EU nations. This is far higher than previous calculations. The figure covers costs caused by crashes, air and noise ...

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Quote of the Day | 0126

In an open letter to the German people published on 13 January in the business daily Handelsblatt, Tsipras laid out his argument. His complaint, he said, was not that Germany had given Greece too little money when his country was ...

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Quote of the Day | 0127

The more I study this stuff, the more I get the sense of international trade and finance as a world unto itself — sitting on top of, dependent on, the rest of the economy, but irrelevant to most of the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0131

The way our political system is designed, politicians are not free to float bad ideas. Doing so is a sure way to lose an election. Politicians aren't even free to support good ideas if they are too far from the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0202

Have banks outlived their historical role, or can they be restructured to finance productive capital investment rather than simply inflate asset prices? Would a public option provide less costly and better directed credit? Why not promote economic recovery by writing down debts ...

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Quote of the Day | 0206

The world is plagued by almost intractable problems. Inequality is surging, especially in the advanced economies. The digital revolution, despite its potential, also carries serious risks for privacy, security, jobs, and democracy – challenges that are compounded by the rising ...

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Quote of the Day | 0207

Game theory is also helpful in understanding how governments are likely to behave during a debt crisis. The key, Rogoff argues, is to ignore everything that governments say and instead to concentrate on the incentives that drive their behaviour. “One ...

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Quote of the Day | 0207

extreme capitalism has blown apart the American mind—Americans cannot think anymore about what it means to act for anything but aggressive self interest, even when it destroys their very own lives, by making them less trusting, democratic, safe, sane, and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0208

Economists know nothing; politicians only know what economists tell them; bankers think economists are fantasists and politicians are idiots; bankers know less than nothing. If you want to really and truly understand what’s happening around you, what’s making the weather, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0210

Other network industries – airports, nuclear plants – have long operated under special bankruptcy codes, ensuring an orderly wind-down and handover of assets. Unlike every other private businesses, big banks knew they would never be allowed to go bust. So ...

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Quote of the Day | 0211

Technical progress comes from markets, not companies. As Jonathan Haskel has shown (pdf), most total factor productivity growth comes from firms entering and exiting the market, not from existing ones doing better. This is consistent with firms being trapped by ...

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Quote of the Day | 0211

Take, for example, the ability to imagine and plan for the future. Monkeys are bad at this – in one case, a group of capuchin monkeys who were fed biscuits once each day would invariably eat their fill then throw ...

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Quote of the Day | 0215

just as in the early 1980s, in the Soviet Union, not only was their politics trapped, but their culture was trapped. Russians called these last years of Brezhnev the years of stagnation. And I sort of wonder whether we ...

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Quote of the Day | 0217

PLAYBOY: You have written that a country is not a company and that business executives really don’t know how to run an economy. Why do many people, particularly elected leaders, bow down in reverence to whatever a business executive says? KRUGMAN: ...

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Quote of the Day | 0220

It’s easy to be dismayed by such naysaying, particularly when it comes from people and institutions who are purportedly friendly to progressive causes. We mustn’t. On the contrary, I’ve come to believe that real change—dare we call it revolution?—will inevitably ...

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Quote of the Day | 0221

If I were a publisher today I would consider a renewable rental model for all e-book downloads—the "lending library" technique of the Depression era—that more accurately reflects the conditional relationship, enforced by digital rights management software, between content provider and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0222

Tulips were sold for crazy prices – the price of houses – and fortunes were won and lost. It was the foolishness of newcomers to the market that set off the crash in February 1637. Desperate bankrupts threw themselves in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0225

a great deal of information has a social context: we want to recommend what’s good and we need to hear recommendations to figure out what to watch. One only need contemplate “Gangnam Style” or Fifty Shades of Grey to see ...

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Quote of the Day | 0228

If what happened in the Western world financial system had happened at another time in history, there would have been an obvious political response: a revolt against the Roger Younts of the world and, more generally, the grotesque inequities spawned ...

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Quote of the Day | 0228

Economics, for example, which is central to our life at the moment … I just drift off when people talk about collateralised debt obligations, and I am not alone. It's impossible to illustrate on television, it's impossible to tell a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0302

When we debate health care policy, we seem to jump right to the issue of who should pay the bills, blowing past what should be the first question: Why exactly are the bills so high? Paul Brill, 'Bitter Pill: Why Medical ...

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Quote of the Day | 0305

In the years after 1980, and even more so, the years after 2000, the foundations for crisis were laid. The banking system became, de facto, largely unregulated and unsecured. Leverage rose, both fueling and fueled by housing bubbles (and, in ...

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Quote of the Day | 0305

This was the third great cost of neoliberalism -- social deconstruction. The great social contracts of the post-war, though many did not quite know it yet, were being ripped up by now -- and their key innovations, like universal healthcare, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0311

There’s no understanding the future of technology without understanding the future of its funders. And they have changed dramatically over the last three decades. First it was the military. Then the venture capitalists. Today, another chapter begins: massive funds, with ...

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Quote of the Day | 0314

information on reader engagement could help a publisher acquire titles more effectively and market them better. So the sale of the data surrounding books could represent a new revenue stream, opening up the possibility that books could be sold at ...

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Quote of the Day | 0315

We tend to think that the economy was killed by irresponsible risk-taking, a lack of regulation or a bubbling housing market, but the problem goes deeper. Those were just the little aeroplanes circling King Kong’s head (“Oh no, it wasn’t ...

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Quote of the Day | 0320

Inmiddels is de euro de grootste bedreiging voor vrede, stabiliteit en welvaart in Europa sinds de oorlog. Economieën krimpen. De werkloosheid in Spanje en Griekenland bedraagt meer dan 25 procent. Een sociale tijdbom tikt. Hierdoor winnen andersoortige verbeelders als de ...

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Quote of the Day | 0320

Rather like pyramid-selling scams, housing markets need a constant stream of fresh-faced hopefuls coming in at the bottom in order to keep delivering big returns at the top. No new buyers equals no more sellers’ market, equals no pressing reason ...

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Quote of the Day | 0321

Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles. Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate. Something interesting ...

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Quote of the Day | 0321

Any democracy must debate the big political issues: how much we protect the vulnerable, the appropriate size of the state, the importance of individual freedom. But technical matters are different. How safe is the MMR vaccine? Are humans changing the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0323

The first empirical evidence we are dumbing down Homo sapiens were the Republican debates in the US 2016 presidential elections – and the resultant kakistocracy. On the other hand, toxification may solve the population problem, since sperm counts are plunging. Paul ...

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Quote of the Day | 0326

Moleskine’s operating margin, its profit as a percentage of revenue, was 41.7% last year. That compares favorably—indeed, very favorably—to the luxury brands the company considers to be peers, like luggage-maker Tumi (19.7%), fashion firm Prada (27.2%), and beauty-product boutique L’Occitane ...

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Quote of the Day | 0326

Economists define adulthood as the moment at which your expenditure on Christmas presents first exceeds the value of the gifts you can expect to receive. John Kay, in: Reasons to believe in hedge funds – or fairies

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Quote of the Day | 0327

Apple will sell you a 16GB iPad 2 for just $500, but some people are willing to pay $200 more to get 64GB. Why? Because we haven't quite reached the stage when the specs of our gadgets cease to matter. ...

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Quote of the Day | 0328

According to his biographer Michael Wolff, Murdoch has not used the internet, let alone Google (he only recently discovered email) and so he cannot possibly understand the dynamics, demands and opportunities of our post-industrial, now-digital media economy. Jeff Jarvis, "Rupert Murdoch's ...

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Quote of the Day | 0328

The recognition that management theory is a sadly neglected subdiscipline of philosophy began with an experience of déjà vu. As I plowed through my shelfload of bad management books, I beheld a discipline that consists mainly of unverifiable propositions and ...

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Quote of the Day | 0331

Promoters of future energy regimes such as Musk weave stories that compel because they seem familiar – they have a singular history. If we want to make sure that those future energy regimes address all our interests, it’s important that ...

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Quote of the Day | 0406

Huffington Post has helped redefine journalistic rules and ethics. Now, with actions like my dismissal and the hiring of mainstream establishment journalists like Howard Fineman and Peter Goodman, it's signaling that it is abandoning its guerilla roots and adopting a ...

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Quote of the Day | 0410

This is a pivotal moment in the history of medicine. Trials transparency is finally on the agenda, and this may be our only opportunity to fix it in a decade. We cannot make informed decisions about which treatment is best ...

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Quote of the Day | 0411

6. It is getting harder and harder every year to sell books. Many book categories have become entirely saturated, with a surplus of books on every topic. It is increasingly difficult to make any book stand out. Each book is ...

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Quote of the Day | 0412

It should say: “It’s over. There are no more respectable forms of tax avoidance and from now on offshore wealth will be treated the same way we treat terrorist finance.” Paul Mason, 'Smash the mafia elite'

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Quote of the Day | 0416

Just as a ship’s hull acquires barnacles, a government naturally attracts all kinds of supplicants and subsidy-seekers. If such behaviour is unchecked, then eventually the system may grind to a halt. 'Bankers and the public sector may both be enemies of ...

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Quote of the Day | 0426

Back in 2009, O'Leary did this for one publisher, O'Reilly Media, which publishes technical books. Surprisingly, he found that sales actually increased after their books showed up on pirate sites. Piracy seems to have boosted sales. O'Leary says people may ...

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Quote of the Day | 0426

the truth is that people who drive into a crowded city are imposing costs on others. They include not just reduced mobility for everyone and degraded public space, but serious health costs. Asthma attacks are set off by the tiny, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0427

* Tradition is not a business model. The past is no longer a reliable guide to future success. * “Should” is not a business model. You can say that people “should” pay for your product but they will only if ...

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Quote of the Day | 0429

Private citizens can't post letters in Sandd or Selekt mailboxes. There aren't any. Ordinary Dutch people still have to pay 46 cents to send a TNT letter. The Dutch government, meanwhile, has negotiated a deal with Sandd to deliver some ...

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Quote of the Day | 0501

Ephemeralization offers an alternative explanation for the puzzling growth slowdown of the last decade. Every time the software industry displaces a special purpose device, our standard of living improves but measured GDP falls. If what you care about is government ...

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Quote of the Day | 0502

Many earlier novels are still deceptively short by modern standards. A typical SF novel of the 1960s was 70,000 words long. By the 1980s, 80,000 words was the norm; by the 1990s it had bloated to 100-120,000 words. Why?Charles Stross, ...

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Quote of the Day | 0510

In summary, the financial overdevelopment of the Netherlands has two dimensions: a bloated domestic banking sector and financial globalization. Both have been accompanied by a policy preference for private over public finance growth. The domestic financial sector is extremely large by ...

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Quote of the Day | 0510

If all money is controlled electronically (or digitally, as it is now), it can be switched off instantaneously. I’m just saying. Margaret Atwood, ‘The Handmaid’s Tale is being read very differently now’ Boeklog on The Handmaid's Tale

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Quote of the Day | 0512

“If you were starting from scratch, you could never possibly justify this business model,” Hal Varian said, in a variation on a familiar tech-world riff about the print-journalism business. “Grow trees—then grind them up, and truck big rolls of paper ...

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Quote of the Day | 0516

as many people have observed, bright ideas emerge from the swirling mix of other ideas, not from isolated minds. Jane Jacobs, the great observer of urban life, looked for innovation in cities, not on Pacific islands. But once a new ...

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Quote of the Day | 0517

the idea that fiat money is going to be worth more in ten or 20 years from now than it is today is delusional. The system doesn’t work like that. If we were talking about a finite system of money such ...

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Quote of the Day | 0520

While the focus of Hillman’s thinking for the last quarter-century has been on climate change, he is best known for his work on road safety. He spotted the damaging impact of the car on the freedoms and safety of those ...

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Quote of the Day | 0521

The British media do not actively want the euro to collapse, any more than my desk wanted 7,000 Taiwanese to be dead. But they want to be first with the biggest, most dramatic story. And if that means reporting the ...

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Quote of the Day | 0521

The fact remains, however, that if the CRS and OMB figures for FY2001-FY2013 that follow are totaled for all direct spending on the war, they reach $641.7 billion, of which $198.2 billion – or over 30% – will be spent ...

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Quote of the Day | 0521

As I did, they chose to study economics in the hope of solving, or at least understanding, real world problems: poverty, inequality, inflation and financial crises. But their classroom experience is narrower and less satisfying than mine was. They find ...

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Quote of the Day | 0523

three discrepant data realms are developing in data protection and privacy – a US one, a Chinese one and an EU one. There is no very effective global governance, whether via the WTO or other global forum, which prevents those ...

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Quote of the Day | 0527

Both the British and the American plans to help the banks are very, very, very expensive variations on the theme of sticking their fingers in their ears and loudly singing ‘La la la, I’m not listening.’ John Lanchester, 'It's Finished'

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Quote of the Day | 0527

We have been through – and seem to be continuing in – a rather extraordinary phase of global history, in which winners keep taking all even as they destroy the system that feeds them at so much cost to itself. ...

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