With a global revival in religion and the general interest in it rising with every passing crisis, I am surprised that the two credible institutions that can hold forth on such matters — education and media — have not kept pace. Read more
If you’ve been visiting my blog over the past week, when it turned daily, you would broadly know the issues confronting the heads of the 20 most powerful nations on earth today — how to get their economies going. That is, how to get banks to lend, industry to invest and households to buy, well, houses. So complex has the debate around resolving this global financial crisis (the first for this generation), so vested the interests (of countries, of bankers, of companies) and so wide and deep the consequences (from the US and Europe through Asia to Africa), that it has moved from global boardrooms to our bedrooms. Read more
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