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 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 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 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 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 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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