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Friday, May 18, 2012

The Browser daily newsletter [18 May 2012]

18 May 2012

 Best of the Moment

The Endangered Public Company

Anonymous | Economist | 18 May 2012

Public companies "filled the world with cars and televisions and computers. They brought transparency to business life and opportunities to small investors." But now many companies choose to stay private. Does it matter? Comments

Israel In Peril

David Shulman | NYRB | 18 May 2012

"Israeli policy is almost entirely mortgaged to the settler enterprise, to the appropriation of more and more Palestinian land." With such disenfranchisement, "every passing day makes a South African trajectory more likely" Comments

Investigating JPMorgan Chase

Simon Johnson | NYT | 17 May 2012

JPMorgan Chase is too big to fail; it operates with the implicit backing of the US government. So its recent trading losses should be investigated independently. In the same way as air crashes and near misses are investigated Comments

The Peculiar Legacies Of Walter Scott

John Sutherland | TLS | 16 May 2012

Two centuries on, his books are scarcely read—but his influence is immortal. His stories and characters live on in operas, plays, films and children's books. The popular narrative of Scotland is still largely his invention Comments

Preying On The Poor

Barbara Ehrenreich | Huffington Post/TomDispatch | 17 May 2012

Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves. Collectively, they provide a juicy target. "The trick is to rob them in ways that are systematic, impersonal, and almost impossible to trace to individual perpetrators" Comments

Ken Doyle, Safecracker

Suzanne Yeagley | McSweeney's | 12 May 2012

Interview. Not burglar, but locksmith. "Usually the victims are children or seniors. Grandpa is busy examining the contents of his safe deposit box at closing time when a bank employee performs the vault-closing procedure" Comments

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