13th Jan - Weekender: Off-Topic & Finnish

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13-Jan Weekender: Markets, Trading & Players

13-Jan Weekender: Economics

13-Jan Weekender: The World

12-Jan Weekender: Weekly Support

11-Jan US Open: Cyprus!

11-Jan Weekender: Best of the Week

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OFF-TOPICS

The Real Cuban Missile Crisis – The Atlantic

Everything you think you know about those 13 days is wrong.

White House Responds To Imperial Death Star Petition – ZH

Soul Men: The Making of The Blues Brothers – Vanity Fair

The pitch was simple: “John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Blues Brothers, how about it?” But the film The Blues Brothers became a nightmare for Universal Pictures, wildly off schedule and over budget, its fate hanging on the amount of cocaine Belushi consumed. From the 1973 meeting of two young comic geniuses in a Toronto bar through the careening, madcap production of John Landis’s 1980 movie, Ned Zeman chronicles the triumph of an obsession.

The Beatles of Comedy – The Atlantic

Monty Python's genius was to respect nothing.

Asteroid mining 2022 a $1 trillion bet for Earth – MarketWatch

Commentary: Wealthy saving Earth’s future and you can get in on it

Simon on complexity – Understanding Society

Herbert Simon's The Sciences of the Artificial - 3rd Edition provided an alternative model for thinking about society.

The End of the University as We Know It – The American Interest

The science of Sherlock Holmes – New Scientist

In The Scientific Sherlock Holmes, chemist James O'Brien presents him as a pioneering forensic scientist. In Mastermind, psychologist Maria Konnikova poses him as a master of mindfulness. While each book has serious flaws, together they offer some valuable insights into the Sherlock Holmes phenomenon, and how it relates to the rise of popular science.

Systems at Risk – Project Syndicate

This year's World Economic Forum Global Risks Report reminds us of the many ways in which systems inevitably affect one another in our interdependent world. More important, the report warns of the dangers of multiple systems – like the economy and the environment – failing simultaneously.

U.S. Cities Relying on Precog Software to Predict Murder – Wired

H. P. Lovecraft’s Advice to Aspiring Writers, 1920 – brainpickings

My name is Sidney Poitier – Letters of Note

Monstrous Talent: A Film Idol's Fall – Spiegel

The sexual abuse claims levelled against Klaus Kinski by his daughter Pola make it clear that cinema fans have deified a monster. The evil that he oozed on the silver screen has now been retroactively authenticated by his alleged depravity.

The Placebo Phenomenon – The Harvard Magazine

An ingenious researcher finds the real ingredients of “fake” medicine.

Howard Stern Interviews Quentin Tarantino for 75 Minutes – The Reformed Broker

Steve Jobs Was Right, Tablets Are Cars, PCs Are Trucks - allthingsd

Have We Lost the War on Drugs? – WSJ

After more than four decades of a failed experiment, the human cost has become too high. It is time to consider the decriminalization of drug use and the drug market.

Face-Off in a Beijing Newsroom: An Insider’s Account – WSJ

Fallout from a conflict over censorship between propaganda officials and journalists in southern China spread to the capital on Tuesday night after the publisher of the Beijing News threatened to resign following a stand-off with authorities. Here, an inside account from a Beijing News journalists who was in the bureau when the conflict unfolded

How the TV Business Got Rich Off the Thing That Was Going to the Kill It: The Internet – The Atlantic

Foreign affairs – a new year’s reading list – The World / FT

Your Guide to the Next 150 Years – The Reformed Broker

There's No Avoiding Google+ – WSJ

IN FINNISH

Finnairin taloa ei kilpailutettu – HS

EK:n hallituksen puheenjohtajan Ilpo Kokkilan rakennusliike SRV sai jättihankkeen ilman kilpailutusta.

Finanssikriisien keskeinen opetus – Nordea

Finanssikriisien keskeinen ongelma on pankkien rahoitus, ei pankkien sijoitukset.

Tunkki kaupan päälle? – Henri Myllyniemi / US Puheenvuoro

Tähän blogiin olen kasannut oikeastaan ne kaikista ajankohtaisimmat kamelin selän katkojat, mutta myös pidemmältä ajalta toivottoman turhiksi katsomani kevätjuhlaliikkeet.

Pakkoruotsi on sekä järjen että kansalaismielipiteen vastaista – Sampo Terho

Antti Herlin: Suomen talous "umpikujaan nasta laudassa" jos tämä jatkuu – TE

Lehdistöneuvos: Erkko käänsi Hesarin EU-myönteiseksi – IL

(8.5.2012) Kosmopoliitti Aatos Erkko otti missiokseen Suomen uittamisen EU:n jäseneksi.

Lukukausimaksualoite tunnustaa realiteetit – EK

Lakialoite EU- ja Eta-maiden ulkopuolisten maiden opiskelijoiden lukukausimaksuista osoittaa, että Suomessakin on vihdoin herätty todellisuuteen. On olemassa rajat, kuinka paljon koulutukseen on käytettävissä verovaroja. Suomalaisella koulutusjärjestelmällä on menossa kova säästökuuri. Arviolta noin puoli miljardia euroa verorahoitusta häviää lähivuosien aikana valtiontalouden säästötoimenpiteiden takia.

Miljardin myytti – Seura

Kun julkisuudessa puhutaan varakkaan väestönosan veronkorotuksista – tai kuten viime aikoina palkanalennuksista – yleinen argumentti kuuluu: Ei kannata, ei siitä kertyisi juurikaan mitään, vaikka kaikki heidän tulonsa verotettaisiin – varakkaiden joukko kun on niin pieni.