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George Soros: Extended Play
Amanda Aronczyk Nov 3, 2011
Yesterday, David Brancaccio reported on the future of the global financial system, as seen by billionaire George Soros, British financial regulator...
Bretton Woods: If you tweet about your twitter feed does it make a... tweet?
Amanda Aronczyk Nov 3, 2011
Our tweets from Bretton Woods:...
Seven Terms to Sound like a Bretton Woods Economist
David Brancaccio Nov 3, 2011
Nearly sixty-seven years after an international conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire organized a new financial system, an unofficial...
The Debt Ceiling: Inching Toward Trouble
Dash Wasserman Nov 3, 2011
Just days after a deal to cut $38 billion in federal spending averted a government shutdown, politicians gear up for the next battle: to raise or...
At the New Bretton Woods, Sustainability is Inheritance
David Brancaccio Nov 3, 2011
At a new Bretton Woods conference in New Hampshire, I came across a new definition of sustainability. Typically the term sustainability is unders...
A Bretton Woods Conference for the Economy of the Future
Stan Alcorn Mar 28, 2012
For the next three days, David Brancaccio and I are in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire with some high IQ folks who are looking at ways to make the...
Bretton Woods Examines Global Financial Policy
Dash Wasserman Nov 3, 2011
After World War II, Bretton Woods, NH hosted that era's top economists, who hoped to rebuild a world financial system in tatters. Now, Bretton...
Too Big To Fail is Too Hard To Resist
Amanda Aronczyk Nov 3, 2011
HBO has just released a preview for Too Big To Fail, a film based on the Andrew Ross Sorkin book of (of course) the same name....
Survey: What Makes the British Happy?
Stan Alcorn Mar 28, 2012
Measuring happiness is no longer just for Bhutan; The United Kingdom is developing measures of "national well-being," and they're just finishing ...
Accounting for Happiness
Dash Wasserman Nov 3, 2011
A survey on social "well-being" will give economists -- and voters -- a new tool for judging their leaders. The British government wants to compile...
