Smart Links -- 27 April 2011
Paul Summerville • April 27, 2011
Tags: Asia, Cambodia, Europe, Financial Instability, Finland, Food Price Inflation, Inflation, No, Sovereign Debt, Technology, Thailand, United States, World, World, Yes
Financial Times -- Asia: Region riven by disputed terrain
Financial Times – EM Bank’s Are Doing the Fed’s Dirty Work
Wall Street Journal – Bernanke’s Inflation Paradox
Asia Sentinel – Grim Report on Food from the ADB
Spiegel Online – How Dangerous is Finland to the Euro?
Independent -- Easter tips for bubble watchers: Ten signs of an impending bust
Slate -- How restaurants will use tablet computers to replace servers
Charlie Fell – US Public Debt Concerns Mounting
Globe and Mail -- NDP surge in polls begins to weigh on Canadian dollar
Vancouver Sun -- Canucks’ Burrows wins it in Game 7 OT: ‘This is what legends are made of’
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The new politics must marry the twin virtues of unequal outcomes and equality of opportunity.
When too few get too much everybody ends up with less.
Can it be that striving for equality of opportunity however imperfect the process not only benefits the individual but also creates benefits for the society as a whole that are unintended but wonderful?
Economics must be a 'moral enterprise' as much as politics claims to be. Economic outcomes need to be framed in terms of right and wrong not just efficiency if only because these often align in surprising ways.
My vision of Canada is that any Canadian child from a family of limited circumstance can expect to have a chance at lifetime of unlimited opportunities.
Tax policy should be founded on the principle of generating steady tax revenues sufficient to maximise environmentally sustainable economic growth in order to fund fair government.
Public policy should be designed to decrease inequality before the law and increase equality of opportunity.
Capitalism is not the problem; the problem is what we do with capitalism.
Content is always more difficult to argue than conspiracy.
Let the state regulate and the market operate (most things).
Welfare strategies are best designed as a hand up not as a hand out.
Political debate should not be fact free fighting.
Explanation lasts longer than eloquence.
Always favour empowerment over dependency.
The most enduring public figures are embraced for the causes they fought for and not the concept of themselves they hoped others would remember them by.
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