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Wednesday, August 8, 2012

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8 August 2012
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 Best of the Moment

Downfall Of A Tuscan Paradise

Alexander Smoltczyk | Spiegel | 7 August 2012

Siena used to be model city. Beautiful, prosperous. Now it's probably bust. Familiar Italian story—but with a twist. City controls Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, and used it as giant slush fund. Whoops. Billions down drain Comments

How Google Can Avert The Next Financial Crisis

Mark Buchanan | Bloomberg | 6 August 2012

How to identify systemic risk in finance? "What matters is how many links a bank has to other institutions, how strong those links are and how risky those other banks are." Is it time for DebtRank? Like Google's PageRank, for banks Comments

I Was One Of America's Top Psychics

Mark Edward | Alternet | 3 August 2012

"Yes, I can see the future, given the right perspective and information, and of course I can read the paw of your pet poodle. I may have a great gift, but it's the gift of gab mixed with a healthy dose of imagination and nerve" Comments

Meet Olafur: The Coolest Guy At The Olympics

Joe Posnanski | Sports On Earth | 7 August 2012

Handball. It's a bit of a mystery to many of us. Joe Posnanski goes to a game expecting to write about the valiant-but-sure-to-lose Great Britain team. He stumbles, enjoyably, across something else entirely Comments

Survival Skill In Japan: Learn English

Chico Harlan | Washington Post | 7 August 2012

Japanese firm with 6,000 workers switches to English as business language. Gives employees two years to learn. Most hate it, but do their best. Further proof of English as future global language? Or of Japanese desperation? Comments

The Top 10 Most Difficult Books

Emily Colette Wilkinson & Garth Risk Hallberg | Publishers Weekly | 3 August 2012

If you've read all 10, take a bow. And tell the rest of us what the heck's going on in them. Or what you would have chosen instead. But remember that difficult doesn't mean unreadable or unrewarding, just hard Comments

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