Economic history

Check out @Derklin's Tweet: https://twitter.com/Derklin/status/409565862765805568

Confidence

Confidence in the context of economic recovery I suspect is a gradual thing , like a personal micro  trade balance concept. Some people start to accumulate disposable surpluses and so start to spend if enough finds its way into the domestic economy then employment starts to increase and so on. BUT beware bubbles in Credit and House prices. The well qualified and connected tend to get through the rest stagger.

Messages form the past we should never forget Nazism Hitler

"The reader" - Interesting issues
1) Seduction of young boy by an older woman
2) At what point should doing your job be compromised by human suffering
3) What are you left with when you can't read or write - emotions?
4) Guardian review
5) The sadness and shame of some of our action
6) Parents spend alot of effort on their children BUT how much interest do they take in their parents


See also Judgement in Nuremberg

Adam Smith

“A letter from Adam Smith to concerned capitalists”

What Adam Smith might say in this amoral age

Iraq

Iraq’s fate Saddam’s mechanics of power are little changed

Iraq Body Count

UK Government procurement

Train contract brings hope for Derby jobs
National Audit Office, the spending watchdog,
 to review the decision to award the Thameslink contract to Siemens.
We look forward to having greater clarity on procurement for the Crossrail project and welcome the transport select committee’s recommendations that future tenders separate train financing decisions from train design and manufacturing
Is it true UK goverment stood back through ignorance and unwitting allow Siemens to game the EU procurement rules in their favour?
No to HS2 Valid statement?
Builders scorn Osborne’s infrastructure plan
MoD faces big bill for equipment cancellations

Corruption Robber Barons

USA railroad building