With a certain weary inevitability, the cries of pain emanating from those seeing their aspirations ground to dust amid the current upheaval in financial markets have been interspersed with the shrill descant of those all too eager to proclaim a ‘crisis of capitalism’. The implication that it is now time for those far-seeing, disinterested Solons
Huh? That’s right. “The recent cold wave sweeping across Mumbai and other parts of India could be attributed to global warming, experts said on Tuesday here at an environmental conference. Addressing the ‘Combat Global Warming’ conference at the Indian Merchants Chamber (IMC) here, former Union minister for power and environment Suresh Prabhu said
With his latest, rather forlorn call for banks to help solve the mortgage crisis by ‘forgiving’ just enough of their loans to keep people’s inability to service their full contractual obligations from triggering foreclosure proceedings, he truly has gone all the way back to Solon and his 6th century answer to Athen’s very own sub-prime crisis,
In a recent survey — jointly conducted by CFO magazine and Duke University — one of the top concerns being expressed by industry executives across the United States, Europe, and Asia was that of the rising cost and — to a slightly lesser extent — the reduced availability of labor, especially that of the skilled variety. The worry most forcibly
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, fifty years before the time of Quesnay, Bandini of Sienna had shown, both from reason and experience, that there never had been a scarcity of food, except in those countries where the government had itself interfered to supply the people. – Jean-Baptiste Say, Treatise on Political Economy In recent
The local Swiss press carried a summary of a report compiled by a panel of so-called “experts” of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Science (SATW) under the startling rubric that motor gasoline “should” henceforth be priced, by fiat, at no less than four francs per liter — roughly double the current market price and representing what, to an
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