money + bestof
- John Lanchester: Can money set you free?
- Anxiety is freedom, and the way you are living will have been your life.
- 2010-06-30 to bestof, book, finance, freedom, life, money, security, wisdom by soobrosa
- Daniel Roth: The Future of Money - It’s Flexible, Frictionless and (Almost) Free
- As money becomes completely digitized, infinitely transferable, and friction-free, it will again revolutionize how we think about our economy.
- 2010-05-12 to bestof, business, finance, internet, money by soobrosa
- Mark Ames: Cerberus Capital - Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions
- Mark Ames was founder and editor of The eXile, the notorious Moscow-based, English-language newspaper shuttered last year after a raid by Russian authorities.
- 2010-01-17 to bestof, business, investment, money by soobrosa
- Bye-Bye, Dubai
- Deserts have a way of reclaiming whatever is built upon them. In the case of Dubai, on the Persian Gulf, the global financial implosion has sent that process into overdrive. After six years of frenzied expansion, during which the emirate's population gre
- 2009-08-26 to arab, architecture, bestof, business, dubai, finance, money by bagoly
- Bernard Madoff - Going down quietly
- History’s biggest swindler faces life behind bars but keeps mum
- 2009-03-24 to bestof, finance, money, pyramid scheme, scam by soobrosa
- Joseph E. Stiglitz: Capitalist Fools
- Behind the debate over remaking U.S. financial policy will be a debate over who’s to blame.
- 2009-03-24 to bestof, business, crisis, finance, markets, money, policy, state by soobrosa
- Wall Street on the Tundra
- Iceland’s de facto bankruptcy—its currency (the krona) is kaput, its debt is 850 percent of G.D.P., its people are hoarding food and cash and blowing up their new Range Rovers for the insurance—resulted from a stunning collective madness. What led a tiny
- 2009-03-13 to bestof, business, global crisis, iceland, money, mortgage, recession by bagoly
- John Lanchester: Cityphilia
- ‘Well, drunk sailors tend to be spending their own money,’ Tony said. ‘By contemporary standards they’re quite prudent.’
- 2009-02-19 to banking, bestof, crisis, finance, london, money, mortgage, recession by soobrosa
- The Real Price of Gold
- as the price of gold soars—it has risen 235 percent in the past eight years—that 30,000 people have flocked to La Rinconada, turning a lonely prospectors' camp into a squalid shantytown on top of the world. Fueled by luck and desperation, sinking in its
- 2009-01-13 to bestof, business, gold, life, money by bagoly
- The borrowers
- Colin Burrow discovers what literature owes to the idea of debt
- 2008-12-12 to bestof, books, history, money by bagoly
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