Written By:
lprent - Date published:
1:42 pm, February 14th, 2010 - 1 comment
Categories: Economy -
Tags: finance
The Economist has been looking at the failures in the financial markets at assessing risk. They have quite a lot of material available. But here are some audio visuals that are of interest*.
Note: These clips are all in iFrame which may not display/play where there are strong web controls. This is how The Economist wishes to have them embedded.
Video: Summary of the issue.
Audio: Special report on financial risk
Audio: The current issues on public debt
* You’ll have to suffer the advertising.
The current rise of populism challenges the way we think about people’s relationship to the economy.We seem to be entering an era of populism, in which leadership in a democracy is based on preferences of the population which do not seem entirely rational nor serving their longer interests. ...
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I/m sorry that this is off-topic but I really, really find the new layout to be ugly and confusing. I mean I’m sure I’ll get used to it and my reaction is reminiscent of the “facebook layout is changed and now it sucks” thing but currently the layout makes me want to claw my eyes out with a rusty spoon.
[lprent: Probably better in the post about the new layout. Give us details there about the Operating System and Browser you’re using. It isn’t great on firefox on ubuntu for instance because of the limited anti-aliasing there. ]