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Publication: The Economist

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

The effect of laws, or their absence

I RECENTLY watched an impassioned 18-minute film on the subject of religion and freedom, made as a kind of personal statement by Jacob Nchangama, a Danish human-rights lawyer. Copies of the film were given out to all participants in last week's Oslo Freedom ... [Published The Economist - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Blasphemy, Free Speech, Religion, Islam

First reported 1 hour ago - Updated 1 hour ago - 1 reports

Taxing for some

America's corporation-tax receipts falter even as company profits soarTHE pressure on tax-avoiders is mounting. In the latest episode Tim Cook, Apple’s boss, was called before a Senate subcommittee to explain why the tech giant had paid no tax on $74 ... [Published The Economist - 1 hour ago]

Entities: Taxes, Tax-Haven, Tim Cook, Emerging Markets

First reported 21 hours ago - Updated 2 hours ago - 1 reports

Viktor Orban

Liebe Ungarn

HUNGARY and Germany are usually the best of friends. So the current diplomatic spat between Budapest and Berlin is raising eyebrows across central Europe.It all started on May 16th, when Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, told an annual meeting of ... [Published The Economist - 21 hours ago]

Entities: Viktor Orban, Hungary, Angela Merkel, Budapest

First reported 4 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

Forza Formabilio

WATCHING makers of Italian furniture at work is a welcome reprieve from these disembodied digital times. They caress wood as if it were a living being and treat it with essences from the far corners of the world. Carefully, they cut leather for a couch. ... [Published The Economist - 4 hours ago]

Entities: Italy, Corporate Social Responsibility, Salerno (Italy), Entrepreneur

First reported 5 hours ago - Updated 5 hours ago - 1 reports

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Fahrenheit four, five, run!

FLASHOVER is something dreaded by firefighters. It is the point at which the temperature in a room has risen so far that everything inflammable ignites spontaneously. In days gone by, when houses were draughty and thus cooler, and rooms were filled with ... [Published The Economist - 5 hours ago]

Entities: Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Ray Bradbury, Flux, Insulator, FEMA Federal Emergency Management Agency

First reported 8 hours ago - Updated 8 hours ago - 1 reports

Koninklijke DSM NV

Attention, everyone

AFTER nearly two decades, the new DSM has arrived. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is a 947-page guide to ailments of the mind. Published on May 22nd by the American Psychiatric Association (APA), it lists specific symptoms to ... [Published The Economist - 8 hours ago]

Entities: Koninklijke DSM NV, Drugs, Diagnostic, Patient, ADHD

First reported 16 hours ago - Updated 16 hours ago - 1 reports

World Trade Organization

Why have containers boosted trade so much?

Uniform metal containers were invented by Malcom McLean, an American trucking magnate, in 1956. Before then goods were shipped as they had been for centuries. Crammed in to the hold of a ship, loose cargo in wooden crates would be loaded and unloaded ... [Published The Economist - 16 hours ago]

Entities: Malcom McLean, General Agreements on Tariffs and Trade, World Trade Organization

First reported 20 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

A Syrian awakening?

SINCE the start of Syria’s uprising, many people, not least in America’s war-weary administration, have eyed the crisis through the prism of Iraq—despite the two conflicts’ marked differences. In Iraq, a foreign invasion to unseat Saddam Hussein unleashed ... [Published The Economist - 20 hours ago]

Entities: Al-Nusra Front, Raqqa, Syria, Iraq, Al-Qaeda in Iraq

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 20 hours ago - 1 reports

Brand value

BRANDS are basically a promise. They tell consumers what quality to expect from a product and show off its personality. Firms invest a lot on the image of their brands to foster sales and loyalty. But measuring their value is hard. Millward Brown, a market-research ... [Published The Economist - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Millward Brown, Apple Inc, Tencent Holdings Ltd

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Of nations, peoples, countries and mínzú

DID Joe Biden insult China? The American vice-president has a habit of sticking his foot into his mouth, and in this case, the recent graduation speech he gave at the University of Pennsylvania inspired a viral rant by a "disappointed" Chinese student ... [Published The Economist - 22 hours ago]

Entities: Joseph Biden, Ethnicity, China

First reported 23 hours ago - Updated 23 hours ago - 1 reports

Wall Street versus Main Street

JOHN Makin has a nice quip in a new paper for the American Enterprise Institute, called "The Fed Can't Save the Stock Market Again." Just as Paul Samuelson remarked that the market had predicted 10 of the last 5 recessions, Mr Makin says thatThe stock ... [Published The Economist - 23 hours ago]

Entities: Wall Street, Stock Market, Share Price, Paul Samuelson, Federal Reserve System

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Right into the dollar zone

MY SUNDAY post on the importance of inflation in Germany seems to have been misunderstood by, among others, Tyler Cowen. Let's address some points.First, many people chided me for not knowing that Ecuador and El Salvador had dollarised. In fact, I was ... [Published The Economist - May 21 2013]

Entities: Inflation, El Salvador, Ecuador, Tyler Cowen, Germany

Quotes

...Formabilio gives them 7% of the retail price, compared with an industry average on the wholesale price of 2%. "In Italy this is unheard of. But it's also a good commission abroad,” says Mr Carbone."

Forza Formabilio [Published The Economist - 4 hours ago]

In this sentence, "You CANNOT think different in a nation where you aren't able to challenge orthodoxy" , he used the word "nation"...

Of nations, peoples, countries and mínzú [Published The Economist - 22 hours ago]

...What's more, the moral argument was delivered in response to Mr Cowen's line: "Imagine telling Americans that they must endure a good deal of inflation to help solve some aggregate demand problems in Ecuador and El Salvador." I imagined it, and concluded that Americans would be mystified because they have not made "ever closer union" with El Salvador and Ecuador the central...

Right into the dollar zone [Published The Economist - May 21 2013]

...A forecaster warned of tornadoes and "giant, damaging hail" and fast-developing storms, and he noted that "we do have schools in session...and that is a big, big concern for us as we expect severe weather potential to peak in that 3-6pm timeframe today." That, alas, was prescient: Plaza Towers and Briarwood elementary schools both suffered direct hits...

A destructive streak [Published The Economist - May 21 2013]

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The effect of laws, or their absence [Published The Economist - 1 hour ago]
Taxing for some [Published The Economist - 1 hour ago]
Forza Formabilio [Published The Economist - 4 hours ago]
Fahrenheit four, five, run! [Published The Economist - 5 hours ago]
Attention, everyone [Published The Economist - 8 hours ago]
Why have containers boosted trade so much? [Published The Economist - 16 hours ago]
A Syrian awakening? [Published The Economist - 20 hours ago]
Liebe Ungarn [Published The Economist - 21 hours ago]
Of nations, peoples, countries and mínzú [Published The Economist - 22 hours ago]
Brand value [Published The Economist - 22 hours ago]
Wall Street versus Main Street [Published The Economist - 23 hours ago]
Right into the dollar zone [Published The Economist - May 21 2013]
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