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tony curzon price

Greg Mankiw's Blog: Goolsbee on the Business Cycle - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 12 Aug 07 - Cached
  • Consider the evidence uncovered by Paul Oyer, a Stanford Business School economist, in his recent paper, "The Making of an Investment Banker: Macroeconomic Shocks, Career Choice and Lifetime Income" (National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper 12059, February 2006). Dr. Oyer tracked the careers of Stanford Business School graduates in the classes of 1960 to 1997.He found that the performance of the stock market in the two years the students were in business school played a major role in whether they took an investment banking job upon graduating and, because such jobs pay extremely well, upon the average salary of the class. That is no surprise. The startling thing about the data was his finding that the relative income differences among classes remained, even as much as 20 years later.
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      tony curzon price on 12 Aug 07
       
      path dependency of economy - and whole lives
Arabica Robusta

Can democracy save the planet? | openDemocracy - 0 views

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shared by Arabica Robusta on 05 May 08 - Cached
  • The questions addressed included: can a world of 9-10 billion people vote its way to a sustainable future - or are new forms of leadership (even forms of authoritarian rule) going to be necessary? Are the rising global powers (China, India and Brazil among them) best placed to move towards more sustainable forms of development?
  • What of the link between democracy and sustainable development? Most respondents held that voter pressure meant that democracy was of benefit to sustainable development. Yet consultation with a more specialised group of experts found that only 28% believed that capitalism (often paired with democracy in its liberal variant) aided sustainable development, against 36% who said that capitalism inhibited it. Overall, Doug Miller saw in the figures an activation of people's survival instinct: as the planet "speaks" through extreme weather events, citizens are starting to listen.
  • Many of the issues the roundtable addressed had been highlighted in a keynote paper commissioned ahead of the meeting from Ian Christie. This made four basic propositions about democracy, ecologically sustainable development, and environmental/sustainability campaign organisations (SD-NGOs). He argued that together, these phenomena offer a paradox about the relationship between democracy, civil society and sustainability; and that resolving it is now an urgent and complex task - for the west, for newly industrialised democracies, and for emergent democratic civil society in the global south.
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  • Democracy poses huge problems for sustainable development. In the advanced liberal capitalist states, democracy is tightly coupled to the promise of economic growth, ever-rising consumption and individual freedom. Democracy in such states now entrenches the interests of the affluent majority and well-funded lobbies in the political system (a point analysed by, among others, JK Galbraith and Mancur Olson).
  • Environmental/sustainability campaign organisations (SD-NGOs) are a massive success for civil society worldwide. Without them, we would not have anything like the progress we have seen in the past half-century in protecting the environment, cutting pollution, raising resource efficiency, highlighting linked issues of environmental and social injustice, and saving wildlife and habitats from destruction. Without them, the discourse and practice of sustainable development would not have become established in governments worldwide, and huge issues such as climate disruption would not have been acknowledged or tackled sufficiently by governments and businesses.
  • SD-NGOs are a massive failure by their own standards. For nearly fifty years they have campaigned and educated citizens and governments and businesses worldwide; yet ecological damage continues on a vast scale, environmental injustices abound, and dangerous climate disruption seems to be unavoidable. SD-NGOs have achieved limited gains in specific areas of policy but have failed to mobilise and energise citizens on a large enough scale to put real pressure on politicians and businesses in the west and beyond. Moreover, they lack clear answers to challenges to their own legitimacy and accountability, and have sometimes spoken as though they were representative voices of "civil society", when in fact they constitute a small and highly unrepresentative section of it in many countries.
  • Arabica Robusta on 05 May 08
     
    a Consultation on Democracy and Sustainability was held at the Science Museum in London on 18 March 2008. It was convened by the Environment Foundation, the 21st Century Trust and SustainAbility, and supported by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation. The questions addressed included: can a world of 9-10 billion people vote its way to a sustainable future - or are new forms of leadership (even forms of authoritarian rule) going to be necessary? Are the rising global powers (China, India and Brazil among them) best placed to move towards more sustainable forms of development? Democracy has a central role to play in any discussion of the future of the planet. But democracy is in trouble in many parts of the world, and must - if it is to deliver, remain relevant and meet people's needs and aspirations - mutate and evolve (see Larry Diamond, "The Democratic Rollback", Foreign Affairs [March-April 2008]).
tony curzon price

FT.com / Home UK / UK - One-third of biggest UK businesses pay no tax - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 29 Aug 07 - Cached
  • One-third of biggest UK businesses pay no taxBy Vanessa HoulderPublished: August 27 2007 22:02 | Last updated: August 27 2007 22:02Almost a third of the UK’s 700 biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in the 2005-06 financial year while another 30 per cent paid less than £10m each, an official study has found.
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    big corporates pay no tax: this is an inevitable consequence of globalisation
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TIMESSELECT CONTENT FREED | By HOLLY M. SANDERS | Business News | Financial | Business ... - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 07 Aug 07 - Cached
  • n July, The Post reported that insiders were lobbying to shut down the service. After two years, however, the move to do away with TimesSelect may have more to do with growth than grumbling inside the paper. The number of Web-only subscribers who pay $7.95 a month or $49.95 a year fell to just over 221,000 in June, down from more than 224,000 in April.
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      tony curzon price on 07 Aug 07
       
      numbers of online subscribers to NYT
findanotary

Mobile Notary Devices like Smartphones - 1 views

With the advent of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, trying to find a notary public online has never been easier. And with that, many notaries public have now taken their local notary se...

Notary service

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yosefong

What are Online Notary Services? - 2 views

With the advent of mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, trying to find a notary public online has never been easier. And with that, many notaries public have now taken their local notary se...

notary public

started by yosefong on 11 Jun 12 no follow-up yet
Susan Thur

YouTube - Blood, Sweat & Tears in the Gulf-Oil Spill 2010 Full Copy - 0 views

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shared by Susan Thur on 21 Jun 10 - Cached
  • Susan Thur on 21 Jun 10
     
    "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyuSYUGqUTQ" My video on Youtube about the oil spill 2010. Blood, Sweat & Tears in the Gulf-Oil Spill 2010 Oil spill photos set to music. Blood Music (Moody Blues - The Voyage) Sweat Music (The Business of America) Tears Music (Moody Blues - Melancholy Man) A Way of Life Music (Phil Collins - Look Through My Eyes) I selected music relevant to the photos. The video was done in 5 segments. One called Blood, one called Sweat, one called Tears and one called A Way of Life with a finale added to display website organizations to save the coast. I wanted to make a video that relayed what was happening here in the Southern United States--the huge price that was paid-the Blood, the hard work that will go on for a long time-the Sweat, the worry of lost lifestyle, culture and livelihood-the Tears and to give the viewer an idea about A Way of Life that is enjoyed and is special to us with the song (Look Through My Eyes)
tony curzon price

Subvert And Profit Unapologetically Targets YouTube - 0 views

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macarthur search

shared by tony curzon price on 30 Dec 07 - Cached
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    Unlike Pay Per Post, the company doesn't waste a lot of time trying to spin their business into something socially acceptable. People pay them to pollute big social sites and get traffic, and they're ok with being slammed for that. As long as they make money. The whole operation is complete with founder pseudonyms (Ragnar Danneskjold, Vasili Taleniekov), proxied whois records, and a clandestine PayPal Account. The service is bringing in the new year with a new pricing model. In '08, Diggs and Stumbles will be increased to $2 per vote. Users will be paid $1 for their votes. You can also earn 20% of the earnings of any friends you refer, and 10% of the cost of advertisements from any advertisers you refer.
tony curzon price

BBC NEWS | Business | Paragon hit by finance problems - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 20 Nov 07 - Cached
  • "Such conditionality gives rise to a material uncertainty related to events or conditions, which may cast significant doubt on the group's ability to continue as a going concern," Paragon said. Scaling back Paragon's comments came as it reported record profits of £91m for the year to the end of September, up nearly 10% on the previous year.
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      tony curzon price on 20 Nov 07
       
      so what happens to the bonuses?
tony curzon price

Telegraph chalks up near-£10m loss - Times Online - 0 views

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macarthur

shared by tony curzon price on 06 Nov 07 - Cached
  • According to the accounts, the strategy for Telegraph Media Group is to make "news and comment under the Telegraph brand available to readers, listeners and viewers in the format most convenient to them". Those plans are "underpinned by the values of honesty, integrity and accuracy that are inherent in the Telegraph brand".
  • tony curzon price on 06 Nov 07
     
    Telegraph mission explicit about role of brand
tony curzon price

BBC NEWS | Business | Bank moves to ease credit jitters - 0 views

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shared by tony curzon price on 05 Sep 07 - Cached
  • "In crude terms, the Bank is basically providing additional cheap finance to the banks to meet any short term requirements they might face," he said. "An increase in the reserve requirement is in affect an increase in lending to banks at the base lending rate of 5.75%. "It represents a significant increase in the liquidity of the banking system ¿ and relieves pressure on the banks to borrow at the higher penalty rate of 6.75%."
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      tony curzon price on 05 Sep 07
       
      here comes the increase in the money supply. who said no one would pay for the bail-out?
Andrey Paxton

Best Speaker in Australia - 1 views

Working with Resultzcorp professional motivational speakers in Melbourne is the best and a life changing experience. They were great enough that they were able to uplift the interest of my employee...

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Gerald Payton

Best Speaker in Australia - 1 views

Working with Resultzcorp professional motivational speakers in Melbourne is the best and a life changing experience. They were great enough that they were able to uplift the interest of my employee...

started by Gerald Payton on 11 Dec 12 no follow-up yet
yosefong

Are you're Asking Yourself, "Where Can I Find a Notary?" - 2 views

If you are asking yourself "where can I find a notary," we obviously believe the best place is right here on FindNotary. We make finding a notary near you extremely simple. Just search by notary or...

Where Can I Find a Notary

started by yosefong on 29 May 12 no follow-up yet
clariene Austria

What You Need to Know about where to find a notary - 1 views

If you are asking yourself "where can I find a notary," we obviously believe the best place is right here on FindNotary. We make finding a notary near you extremely simple. Just search by notary or...

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clariene Austria

What You Need to Know about where can i find a notary - 2 views

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clariene Austria

What You Need to Know about where to get notarized - 1 views

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Markus Potter

Notary search - 4 views

If you are asking yourself "where can I find a notary," we obviously believe the best place is right here on Notary search. We make finding a notary near you extremely simple. Just search by notary...

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