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 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 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 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 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 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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