February 3, 2009
General
The Guardian’s Dan Roberts does a brilliant job explaining the current financial crisis in ‘where did all the money go‘ and what it means. It’s a truly disturbing picture and one for which conventional economic wisdom doesn’t appear to have ready answers. In one slide, Roberts implies the whole edifice looks like a Ponzi scheme. [...]
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December 31, 2008
General
As I’m getting ready to close out this annis horribilis I read this beautfiully crafted piece from Alan Rusbridger, editor in chief of The Guardian. It candidly chronicles the issues surrounding its botched reporting of Tesco’s tax avoidance schemes in the middle of 2008 and the difficulties the paper had in unraveling the story. While [...]
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