Richard Eriksson
Ed Smith asks "are we too professional?"
"At the end of the 19th century, an amateur meant someone who was motivated by the sheer love of doing something; professional was a rare, pejorative term for grubby money-making." [link]
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"It is time to look at China, not for what it says, but for what it does, and to judge it accordingly."
"Although the politics of China remains communist, the economics might be called Advanced Mercantilist." [link]
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The Reykjavik Grapevine's Paul Nikolov summarizes the current crisis in Iceland over Icesave
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