The following is a guest post by Eric Clemons, Professor of Operations and Information Management at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. After returning from the World Economic Forum in Davos, I have been thinking about how to build more perfect human societies out of the visibly a...

Grizelda talks about her participation in the economic summit in Davos. Carlos visits as does Andaids and Rilch. Who cares? FLICK THE BEAN Tags: grizelda, cheryl, davos, prolapse, yeast, radio, economics, andy+melton, fat...

Operation Cast Lead has dropped a wrecking ball on the Turkey-Israel relationship which had been so promising for both nations, but especially for Israel. It allowed the latter to point to a major Muslim nation with which it had good trade and military ties. The two countries appeared to have much i...

Image via Wikipedia Hook: { Great Read} New York City is my reference point for what is world news and certain people who are great content creators keep me informed .Even the best writer can find it hard to get a reader’s interest when the story seems foreign to the reader. Is there a hook, s...

Your LibertyWeek hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist welcome you back with a rousing discussion of the much-debated Stimulus to Nowhere and the website where you can evaluate it, StimulusWatch.org. We get an update from the billionaire’s club known as the World Economic Forum in Davos, S...

I was at Davos again this year, but decidedly quiet on the blogging front — I did a bit of Twittering, but for the most part was really there to focus on the topics at hand. If you didn’t make it this year don’t worry, they provided HD links to download most all the big sessions, w...

Row Between Israel and Turkey Threatens to Damage Historic Ties The sharp exchange of words at the World Economic Forum between Israeli President Shimon Peres and Turkish Prime Minister Recep ErdoÄŸan over who started the Operation Cast Lead war in Gaza, is a sad and ominous message regarding the de...

AP on Davos: "Davos just sort of encapsulates the broader global debate," said Stephen Roach, chairman of investment bank Morgan Stanley in Asia and one of the few to warn last year of the global ramifications of the U.S. sub-prime mortgage problem. "We're now moving into the ugliest phase of every ...

Who is Dan Loeb, the rich guy who flew NonSociety egobloggers Julia Allison and Meghan Asha home from Davos in his private jet? He's a widely hated surfer, yoga enthusiast, and hedge-fund manager! A vicious critic of management. Loeb, 47, whose Third Point fund runs $2.6 billion in assets, is "Wall ...

The Forum is an intense 4 days, and this year probably more so than most - even folowing it by written word and video as I did was intense.  There were some clear themes, and some clear leadership from surprising sources.  The surprise was the Asian contingent and their discussion of global co-ope...