Mark Cuban | Blog Maverick | 14 October 2011 Billionaire offers an agenda to Wall Street protesters. Reach out to small shareholders everywhere. Call for a tax on financial transactions. Cap student loans at $2,000 a year. Turn all investment banks into partnerships Comments Simon Schama | FT | 14 October 2011 Former president diagnoses America's ills. "You can't convert the ideologues because they don't care what the facts are. With the world as it is, you have to fight the fight you can win, and the fight you can win is economics" Comments Yochi Dreazen | National Journal | 14 October 2011 There was a time when the Iraqi prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, faced criticism for being too weak. Reminding Iraqis of this might prompt hollow laughter today. An important, if dispiriting, read Comments Dan Lyons | Real Dan | 11 October 2011 "Yes I came up with the idea for the personal computer, but I don’t want to be known as a guy who changed the world. I want to be known as an engineer who connected chips in a really efficient way. I’m thankful Steve Jobs was there" Comments Robert Barnett | China Beat | 14 October 2011 Fascinating, if the political economy of Tibetan Buddhism is your thing. "The Dalai Lama is more than likely to be succeeded by an emanation, not necessarily by a child reincarnation." Or perhaps both. Or by several emanations Comments Celia Farber | Lapham's Quarterly | 14 October 2011 On the poetry of new Nobel prize winner Tomas Tranströmer, whose writing owes more to natural science than literature. Bug collector, psychologist and "probably the most mild and forgiving writer who has ever received the prize" Comments | 
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