ft 23.8.11

crumbling of 3rd regime reinvigorates arab spring, finnish deal 4 colalteral threatens greece rescue package, eu again shows its limits
sunflowers will bhelp decontaminate radioactive soil in japan.
4 their health banks need a holyday from basel. US savings and loan crisis in 1980s, resurrection failed henc eloose regulation may divert healthy lending practices ^2 local businesses.

arab spring moving 2 India w/ anti ciorruption social movement.
philip zelikow exclnt analysis of arab spring and possible federalist outocme in multiethinc context where failed unitary state of colonial legacy is falling apart, menawhile gulfstate channel funds 2 back authoritarian rulers.
michael lind, Please see The intellectual collapse of left and right on Page 7 of Tuesday, August 23, 2011, " Supporters of the ownership society and the knowledge economy alike have emphasised economic aspiration above economic security. That might have seemed plausible during the bubble years, but it does not fit the conditions of distressed workers in today’s post-crash, slow-growth economy. Whatever forms the next conservatism and the next liberalism take in the US, they may be based as much on a politics of security as the politics of aspiration"
interesting point on managerial responsibilities and titanic captain analogy jumping on the lifeboat b4 passengers." Easy conditions of employment, overgenerous pensions and pay, insufficient emphasis on the risks (operational and ethical) rather than the rewards of the job – these are the corporate equivalent of the lifeboat Ismay stepped into. As long as these safeguards are provided in such abundance, the public will have to stomach seeing many business leaders simply float away from the wreckage they helped create. "
family offices regulation and the SEC
US railways , good revire and chart on traffic
on uk manufacturing, praise spectris , specialist precision engineer towards china