2007 September:   Business
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Carbon(see also in Climate) last  down  top   on  back

John Perkins, Coal is carbon is emissions is not good, The Age, 2007 Sep. 27 (Australia can lead the way because it is a major coal exporter)
Climate change: Heavy weather, Economist, 2007 Sep. 22 (ever more firms are taking climate change seriously, and a growing number are trying to measure emissions)
Car emissions: Vermont takes on Detroit, Economist, 2007 Sep. 22 (on 12th September, a federal judge, William Sessions, dismissed the American automobile industry's attempt to bar Vermont from imposing tough greenhouse-gas emissions limits on cars and light trucks; the verdict thus upholds Vermont's right to force a 30% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2016)
Royce Millar, Building sector goes green in call on emissions, The Age, 2007 Sep. 17 (an unlikely alliance of the property industry and environmental groups has called for a mandatory target for cutting greenhouse emissions)
Mathew Murphy, Greenhouse gas scheme hurting, The Age, 2007 Sep. 13 (the NSW carbon trading scheme is on the brink of collapse as the falling price of credits looks likely to send several companies to the wall)
Felicia Mello, Counting the carbon at the counter, IHT, 2007 Sep. 12 (Timberland is among a growing number of companies seeking to capitalize on consumers' growing concern about climate change by developing "carbon labels" for everything from shoes to shampoo)
Liz Minchin, Companies admit ignorance on emissions, The Age, 2007 Sep. 11 (only one in 10 Australian companies know how much greenhouse gases they are producing and only a quarter have tried to save water, according to the biggest ever survey on environmental management in Australian industry)
David Gow, Carmakers say EU green plans 'against the laws of physics', Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (German motor companies hit back today at EU plans to fine them if they fail to comply with strict limits on CO2 emissions on new cars)
Peter Hannam, Act to cut emissions, EPA urges companies, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (nullifying a company's carbon emissions simply through the purchase of carbon offsets misses the point; more important is cutting energy use and emissions at the source)
John Llewellyn, In a confusing climate, I think the scientists are probably right, Observer, 2007 Sep. 2 (what are the potential consequences of climate change on global business?)
UK peatlands face future stress, BBC, 2007 Sep. 1 (erosion and climate change could release a vast volume of carbon from the UK's peatlands)
Competition and Free Trade(see also Marketing) up  down  top   on  back

Karen McVeigh, Big four accused of fixing dairy prices, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 21 (supermarkets could face multi-million pound fines from consumers paying extra 3p on pint of milk)
Sarah Wiley, New laws combat predatory pricing, The Age, 2007 Sep. 19 (small business will have greater protection from unfair competition by bigger rivals under new laws passed by the Senate)
David Gow, Three US chip-makers could be next targets for trust busters, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 18 (Brussels now expected to step up its cases against three other US technology groups, including the dominant microprocessor manufacturer Intel)
US probe into memory chip firms, BBC, 2007 Sep. 17 (US authorities have launched an investigation into the practices of firms that make memory chips used in MP3 players and digital cameras)
Nassim Khadem, Small business has price win, The Age, 2007 Sep. 12 (laws strengthening regulations against predatory pricing were expected to pass Parliament overnight)
John Elder and Renee Switzer, Vengeful shoppers flocking to the internet, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (while bargains can be found in the cyber marketplace, it is the bragging about victories over rip-off salesmen and old-fashioned stores and malls that people particularly enjoy)
Supermarket competition: Shopped by their suppliers, Economist, 2007 Sep. 1 (a look at whether big grocers are abusing their market power takes a new turn)
Consumerism(see also Social and in Social) up  down  top   on  back

Eric Pfanner, Consumers' word is best advertisement, survey shows, IHT, 2007 Sep. 30 (among U.S. consumers, the word most closely associated with advertising is "false")
David Hall, Ten million reasons why business really can counter climate change, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 20 (in slashing the price of lightbulbs, we have shown how green consumerism can work)
Susan Fenton, Women at forefront of consumer spending in China, IHT, 2007 Sep. 17 (women consumers are fueling the growth in Chinese consumer spending and helping to reduce the country's high rate of personal savings, a source of tension with its trading partners)
Mark Lynas, Can shopping save the planet?, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 17 (the big high-street chains are falling over themselves to 'go green'; but will any of it make any difference?)
Felicia Mello, Counting the carbon at the counter, IHT, 2007 Sep. 12 (Timberland is among a growing number of companies seeking to capitalize on consumers' growing concern about climate change by developing "carbon labels" for everything from shoes to shampoo)
Consumer electronics: And in the Blu corner . . ., Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (the fight heats up between the two high-definition video-disc formats)
Peter Wayner, The hunt for gotta-have-it gadgets, IHT, 2007 Sep. 6 (the first adopters willing to pay a premium for the exotic notebook computers, cellphones and tech toys can turn to any number of businesses that specialize in finding objects that are not sold in the big-box store near their home)
Leader, Industry-friendly officials leave U.S. consumers in the cold, IHT, 2007 Sep. 6 (the Bush administration has appointed industry-friendly officials to head agencies enforcing everything from consumer safety to workplace regulations; it has watered down standards and deprived regulatory agencies of the resources they need to do their jobs)
Peter Munro, What price is right?, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (we all aspire to be 'comfortable' in life; but exactly how much does comfort cost, and who can afford it?)
Copyright and Trademarks(see also in Internet and Technology) up  down  top   on  back

Spy charges for US computer duo, BBC, 2007 Sep. 29 (two computer engineers in the US state of California have been charged with conspiring to steal microchip designs to sell to the Chinese military)
John Naughton, You can have any gadget you like so long as it's an iPod, Observer, 2007 Sep. 16 (intellectual property law offered neither party comfort or redress because the trick turned out to be a fact about how Apple's software worked: something not copyrightable by iPhoneSimFree, and not patentable in practice)
Michael Cross, Time to take the jewels from the crown?, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 6 (the ancient institution of crown copyright is increasingly open to question, but a polarised response to abolition proposals has created a virtually insoluble problem)
Charles Arthur, How much should we pay to download a TV episode?, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 6 (inflated and inconsistent pricing means it's invariably cheaper to fork out for the DVD box set than go online)
Daniel Altman, Naming products gets harder the more you go global, IHT, 2007 Sep. 4 (with globalization opening markets in new cultural environments, the challenge is even greater - and there is more at stake)
Vanessa Thorpe, Publishers lock horns over rights to Beckett work, Observer, 2007 Sep. 2 (tug-of-war over playwright's legacy as another literary lion tries to preserve its cultural value)
Amrit Dhillon, Is Bollywood about to lose the plots?, The Age, 2007 Sep. 1 (the Indian film industry has been pumping out Hollywood copies for decades, but a plagiarism suit may put a stop to that)
Economics(see also Money) up  down  top   on  back

China's economy: How fit is the panda?, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (China's booming economy is helping to support global growth as America turns sickly; so now it has to keep up the pace)
Robert Brenner, That hissing? It's the sound of bubblenomics deflating, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 26 (merely cutting the cost of borrowing will do little to remedy the long-term weaknesses of the advanced economies)
David Altman, Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel-winning economist, looks at climate change, IHT, 2007 Sep. 25 (Altman recently moderated an online discussion about economics and climate change between readers and Joseph Stiglitz, a recipient of the Nobel in economic science and professor at Columbia University)
Will Hutton, Review: Her ranting obscures her reasoning, Observer, 2007 Sep. 23 (Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine deconstructs capitalist economics through 9/11, Iraq and the tsunami and hits some bull's eyes, but she can't put it all together again)
Royce Millar, Ben Schneiders and Clay Lucas, The price of a piece of dirt, The Age, 2007 Sep. 21 (fewer, but bigger, developers are controlling the land on Melbourne's urban fringe; textbook economic reasoning makes the link with both steeply rising prices and dwindling supply)
Heather Stewart, Spectre of the Great Depression haunts America's top banker, Observer, 2007 Sep. 16 (he made his name on campus; now Fed chief Ben Bernanke must pluck the global economy from the abyss)
Graeme Wearden, Rising inflation puts pressure on Chinese policy makers, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 11 (inflation in China has hit an 11-year high, thanks to rapidly rising food prices and a disease that has killed millions of the country's pigs)
Ross Gittins, Virtue can indeed be its own reward, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (don't believe the economists - it takes more than money to make the world go round)
Credit: Beware miracle cures, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (trust in the markets, not the politics)
The markets and the economy: Casting a long shadow, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (the City's malaise will take its toll on growth)
Economics focus: A book-keeping error, Economist, 2007 Sep. 1 (the accounting principle that is meant to capture fair value might end up distorting it)
Environment(see also in Health and Science) up  down  top   on  back

Economics focus: Playing games with the planet, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (a version of "prisoner's dilemma" may suggest ways to break through the Kyoto impasse)
Three Gorges Dam 'could be huge disaster', The Age, 2007 Sep. 27 (senior Chinese officials have admitted the Three Gorges Dam is at risk of becoming a "catastrophic" environmental disaster if accumulating threats are not dealt with promptly)
Brendan Wintle and Sarah Bekessy, Time for clear goalposts on Gunns plan, The Age, 2007 Sep. 20 (any decision on Tasmania's pulp mill must consider wildlife)
Nicolas Perpitch, Rio Tinto endures the curse of the troglobites, The Age, 2007 Sep. 18 (Western Australia's environmental watchdog has reversed its decision to block a $12 billion iron ore development to protect a tiny spider-like creature)
Andrew Darby, 128 scientists voice mill fears, The Age, 2007 Sep. 18 (scientists' fears about environmental approval for the Gunns pulp mill are growing, along with concerns about the Tasmanian Government's strengthening links with the forest industry)
Richard Black, More progress urged on ozone hole, BBC, 2007 Sep. 17 (faster progress is needed to safeguard the ozone layer, according to one of the scientists who discovered the "ozone hole" over Antarctica)
Juliette Jowit, Plastic waste threat to marine life, Observer, 2007 Sep. 16 (nationwide clean-up of Britain's beaches is under way this weekend amid growing concern over the threat to sea life)
Lindsay Murdoch, March of the toad, The Age, 2007 Sep. 15 (it can grow to the size of a small dog and has virtually taken over the top end of Queensland and the Northern Territory; the cane toad is wreaking environmental havoc and the locals are saying enough is enough)
Business and society: Green made good, Economist, 2007 Sep. 15 (Anita Roddick, pioneer of green capitalism, died on September 10th)
Felicity Barringer, .S. judge backs state law mandating cuts in automotive emissions of greenhouse gases, IHT, 2007 Sep. 13 (ruling in a lawsuit against Vermont's standards on those heat-trapping gases, the judge, William Sessions 3rd of the U.S. District Court in Burlington, on Wednesday rejected a variety of challenges from automakers, including their contention that the states were usurping federal authority)
PA, New M&S stores powered by windmill, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (two 'green' stores will include a series of eco-features aimed at reducing their carbon footprint)
Environmental protection: Muddy waters, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (the murky rules for keeping the Great Lakes clean)
Callum Roberts, Waves of despair, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (once they were a national treasure chest, teeming with fish and wildlife; now the waters of the North Sea are quiet, almost dead; but it's not too late to stop the fishing industry destroying itself)
Andrew Darby, Science friction, The Age, 2007 Sep. 4 (a group of scientists has called on the Federal Government to reject the $2 billion pulp mill in Tasmania's Tamar Valley because of serious pollution risks to Bass Strait)
Stephen Moss, Industrial revolution, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 3 (some of Britain's ugliest industrial sites are being transformed into wildlife paradises, providing a haven not just for plants and animals, but also for the people who visit them)
Liz Minchin, Natives under attack from 'deadly' humans, The Age, 2007 Sep. 3 (Australian animals and plants have been wiped out at an unprecedented rate by the deadliest introduced species the continent has ever known; it's not the cane toad: it's us)
Fraud and Corruption(see also in Internet and Social) up  down  top   on  back

Swiss join UN's dirty cash battle, BBC, 2007 Sep. 21 (Switzerland becomes the first country to sign up to a global initiative to recover money looted by corrupt government leaders)
Nick McKenzie and Paul Austin, Detective quits over corruption leak claim, The Age, 2007 Sep. 20 (a senior detective from one of Victoria Police's most sensitive units resigns after allegations he leaked details of a corruption inquiry)
Andrew Darby, 128 scientists voice mill fears, The Age, 2007 Sep. 18 (scientists' fears about environmental approval for the Gunns pulp mill are growing, along with concerns about the Tasmanian Government's strengthening links with the forest industry)
Peter Gregory, Probe into NCA behaviour, The Age, 2007 Sep. 15 (Commonwealth anti-corruption commission to investigate allegations made by former federal MP Andrew Theophanous against the former National Crime Authority)
Julian Borger, Organised crime: the $2 trillion threat to the world's security, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 12 (billions of dollars of bribes paid each year into the pockets of public officials in rich countries)
Naomi Klein, Extract: The shock doctrine, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 8 (the business of exploiting disaster)
Technology Quarterly: What is this that roareth thus?, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (the untold story of a failed attempt to introduce electric buses in London a century ago offers a cautionary technological tale)
Patrick Gray, Chaining up the rogue traders, The Age, 2007 Sep. 4 (an Australian company is leading the charge against manipulation of international stock markets)
Corruption in Brazil: Enter the judges, Economist, 2007 Sep. 1 (criminal charges for Lula's aides)
Globalism and Free Trade up  down  top   on  back

Larry Elliott, Three bears that ate Goldilocks economy, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 24 (no fairytale ending in a story of dark magic and motives)
The global economy: The turning point, Economist, 2007 Sep. 22 (does the latest financial crisis signal the end of a golden age of stable growth?)
Richard Wachman, Credit crunch is test case for free market, Observer, 2007 Sep. 16 (it simply isn't good enough for Bank governor Mervyn King to infer that Northern Rock was a special case deserving of sympathy)
The border: Free trade and fireballs, Economist, 2007 Sep. 15 (in February, despite protests, the Department of Transportation announced a one-year pilot programme that would allow up to 100 Mexican carriers access to America)
John Garnaut, Cashed up China bears safety storm, The Age, 2007 Sep. 12 (the "Made in Chna" brand survives months of bad publicity to drive the second-largest trade surplus the world has seen)
Mark Milner, CBI chief warns globalisation cannot be ignored, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 11 (Richard Lambert tells TUC conference that Britain turning its back on globalisation would spell disaster for the economy, draining it of capital and talent)
Angela Balakrishnan, 'The market system can get it wrong all the time', Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (developing countries could struggle to lift themselves out of poverty unless a new international body is set up to monitor exchange rates and reduce huge global trade imbalances, a United Nations agency warned today)
Daniel Altman, Naming products gets harder the more you go global, IHT, 2007 Sep. 4 (with globalization opening markets in new cultural environments, the challenge is even greater - and there is more at stake)
Martin Feil, Australia's debt story a sad tale, The Age, 2007 Sep. 3 (our failure to value add and to build industries is working against us)
James Kirby, Food prices set to surge 50 per cent within five years, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (ag-flation—the sudden and irreversible upward momentum in food prices which is going to change the world as we know it)
Agnes Poirier, China seeks milk, cows run dry, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (globalisation is going to strike us where it hurts most: in our stomachs)
Management up  down  top   on  back

Simon Caulkin, Take note: fortunes can go down as well as up, Observer, 2007 Sep. 30 (Northern Rock is a good example of what happens when a company succumbs to this kind of voodoo economics)
Heather Stewart and Nick Mathiason, Banks hooked on a numbers game that didn't add up, Observer, 2007 Sep. 30 (the banking sector was happy to ditch 'old-fashioned' ways and boost business with the help of complex debt vehicles; but the day of reckoning is at hand)
Face value: Changing how Japan works, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (Yasuyuki Nambu of Pasona is on a mission to make Japan's labour market more flexible)
Geoff Strong, Your call is (not) important, The Age, 2007 Sep. 26 (everyone knows the frustration of their call being placed in a queue but some companies still don't get the message - they're keeping you hanging on the line on purpose)
Gary Barker, The right information furnishes the road to success, The Age, 2007 Sep. 21 (a kid from Bairnsdale with a knack for computers has had a dream run onto the world stage of IT)
Max Hastings, Financial management is the new witchcraft. We need to break the spell, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 17 (the Northern Rock crisis, and the City's excesses, expose the dangers in our remaining ignorant of market complexities)
Simon Caulkin, Small companies prosper by travelling light, Observer, 2007 Sep. 16 (a key success factor for small firms is the ability to move smartly to avoid being crushed by giant competitors)
Nick Mathiason, Poll proves male bosses won't give potential mothers a job, Observer, 2007 Sep. 16 (a fifth of British directors refuse to hire women of child-bearing age)
Automated decision-making: The death of expertise, Economist, 2007 Sep. 15 (Super Crunchers, Ian Ayres; the sheer quantity of data and the computer power now available make it possible for automated processes to surpass human experts in fields as diverse as rating wines, writing film dialogue and choosing titles for books)
Algorithms: Business by numbers, Economist, 2007 Sep. 15 (consumers and companies increasingly depend on a hidden mathematical world)
Big sums: Of greed and ants, Economist, 2007 Sep. 15 (nature could help design even smarter algorithms)
Michael Bachelard, Workers badly done by as managers strip rights, The Age, 2007 Sep. 13 (compelling evidence emerges of how quickly bosses in retail and hospitality took advantage of WorkChoices to strip pay and conditions from their employees)
Leon Gettler, Teamwork avoids dangers of one-on-one emails, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (businesses should abandon person-to-person email for their own legal protection, according to a global information management specialist)
Corporate history: Past rites, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (how companies can benefit from looking backwards as well as forwards)
Manufacturing up  down  top   on  back

Chinese manufacturing: Plenty of blame to go around, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (Mattel tries to rescue its relationship with its Chinese suppliers)
Business in China: Talent arbitrage, Economist, 2007 Sep. 22 (can China continue to provide low-cost labour in high-tech industries?)
Car emissions: Vermont takes on Detroit, Economist, 2007 Sep. 22 (on 12th September, a federal judge, William Sessions, dismissed the American automobile industry's attempt to bar Vermont from imposing tough greenhouse-gas emissions limits on cars and light trucks; the verdict thus upholds Vermont's right to force a 30% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions by 2016)
Philip Hopkins, Report spots climate costs, The Age, 2007 Sep. 17 (manufacturers need to look to a range of savings options to reduce the threat of higher electricity costs arising from emissions trading)
Nassim Khadem, Labor tunes industry policy at round table, The Age, 2007 Sep. 11 (China's manufacturing strength should not be seen as an insurmountable obstacle for Australian manufacturers, Opposition Leader Kevin Rudd has declared)
Kim Carr, Manufacturing a better future needs nuts and bolts approach to innovation, The Age, 2007 Sep. 11 (industry must have support if it is to remain strong and competitive)
Philip Hopkins, Victoria inspires federal election manufacturing promise, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (a new department of innovation that will combine responsibility for industry, innovation, science and research will be the cornerstone of a federal Labor government's policy on manufacturing)
Richard Wachman, Revive manufacturing before it's too late, Observer, 2007 Sep. 9 (the recent credit crunch and turmoil in world markets should serve to remind us that there are risks associated with our neglect of manufacturing)
Dewi Cooke, Another manufacturing business bites the dust, The Age, 2007 Sep. 1 (amid the strike and the thousands of stand-downs, another car industry story passed quietly by last week)
Marketing(see also Competition and in Internet) up  down  top   on  back

Jason Koutsoukis, Renee Switzer and Deborah Gough, Truth in advertising: what you see is what you get, The Age, 2007 Sep. 23 (a pro-WorkChoices television advertisement featuring "union thugs" was pulled off air last night after The Sunday Age revealed that two actors featured in it were notorious criminals)
Outdoor advertising: Vive la Vélorution!, Economist, 2007 Sep. 22 (JCDecaux and Clear Channel Outdoor battle over urban bike-schemes)
Geoff Mulgan, How to spread the word about radical ideas, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 12 (everyone with a good idea wants it to have an impact, but what turns promising social innovations into household names?)
Naresh Ramchandani, How a gorilla and chocolate bar went superviral, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (the new ad for Cadbury's Dairy Milk is being talked about, uploaded, blogged about, downloaded - and blow me down if they're not talking about it on Radio 1 right now as I type this sentence)
James Doran, US motorists drive for dollars in advert cars, Observer, 2007 Sep. 2 (cash-strapped Americans are plastering their SUVs and cars with magnetic advertisements, collecting hundreds of dollars a month in an effort to make ends meet)
Dan Heath and Chip Heath, How they'll make you want to spend $300 for a pair of socks, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (couple a product with an idea and the profits will flow)
Matthew Benns, Charity begins on phone, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (telemarketing companies take up to 40 cents in every dollar that people donate to charities)
Jason Koutsoukis, Howard's $2 billion ad splurge, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (John Howard has spent nearly $2 billion on government advertising and information campaigns since coming to power 11 years ago)
James Harkin, Post-logo vogue, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 1 (branding boffins' hot new thing is anti-brand activism; but they don't live in the real world)
Media and Television(see also in Technology) up  down  top   on  back

James Robinson, Threat of young viewers turning off, Observer, 2007 Sep. 30 (broadcasting body says that fewer of us are watching TV, and those that do are not giving it their full attention)
Peter Wilby, Why rightwingers are on the warpath, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 24 (in an interview with MediaGuardian last week, the Daily Telegraph's Jeff Randall returned for the umpteenth time to the subject of BBC bias; its definition of "the middle ground", he insisted, was false; in reality, it propagates a liberal consensus)
Mark Kermode, Review: So, is there really Life on Mars?, Observer, 2007 Sep. 23 (his first and only love was for cinema; film critic Kermode didn't even own a TV, let alone watch one; so what happened when we asked him to watch some of the most acclaimed TV in recent years?)
Peter Preston, Will free WSJ take prisoners?, Observer, 2007 Sep. 23 (it's been the great debate since newspaper websites began; do you charge for your most precious content, or not?)
Travis Reed, Tasered student a known prankster, The Age, 2007 Sep. 20 (video of police using a Taser gun on a persistent questioner of US senator John Kerry has become an internet and TV sensation)
Matthew Ricketson, Advertising spending up in first half of 2007, The Age, 2007 Sep. 18 (advertising spending in the media has risen by more than 12 per cent in the first half of this year)
Giles Tremlett, With prejudice, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 17 (unofficial sources and the demands of 24-hour news have led to a media storm around Gerry and Kate McCann that gets darker by the day)
Media: Emerging journalism, Economist, 2007 Sep. 15 (journalism training is booming in the developing world)
Jenny Buckland, Children's TV must be better than just junk, The Age, 2007 Sep. 11 (there should be a public digital channel catering for the needs of children)
Jeff Jarvis, The real reason for Google's news-wire deal, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (publishers: be careful what you wish for; journalistic organisations and news agencies have complained that Google has benefited from their headlines, while I argue it is they who have benefited from Google's links)
Tristram Hunt, The time bandits, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (television history is now more about a self-indulgent search for our identity than an attempt to explain the past and its modern meaning)
Money(see also Economics and Wealth) up  down  top   back

Marcus Padley, Fund manager performance is the tip of the iceberg, The Age, 2007 Sep. 29 (the advent of the internet, easy access to investment information and the ability to deal easily in the sharemarket have been nothing short of a cultural revolution; it has spawned a culture that says looking after your own investments is clever and fund managers are nasty people driving around in BMWs while our funds underperform the market)
Sovereign-wealth funds: The new Rothschilds, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (state-run funds are pumping money into the financial sector)
Angela Balakrishnan, Daily currency trades equal to Germany's annual output, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 26 (trade in global currency markets has soared over the past three years and is now worth more than $3.2 trillion a day - roughly equal to the annual output of Germany, the world's third largest economy)
Simon Bowers and Mark Milner, Wave of petrodollars from the emirates sets western stock markets alight, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 24 (US concern after Nasdaq becomes target of Middle Eastern big money)
Ross Gittins, Virtue can indeed be its own reward, The Age, 2007 Sep. 10 (don't believe the economists - it takes more than money to make the world go round)
Larry Elliott, When money lenders cry for hand-outs, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (Bank of England fears that fire fighting could unleash a wave of pyromania)
Economics focus: Tangled reins, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (America's central bank attempts to tame a beast it once let loose)
The world economy: How much will the credit crunch hurt the world economy?, Economist, 2007 Sep. 1 (the central bankers have concentrated on stemming panic by flooding financial markets with short-term liquidity, and, in the case of the Federal Reserve, by loosening the rules for, and price of, banks' borrowing from the discount window)
Outsourcing(see also Pay and in Social) up  down  top   on  back

Anand Giridharadas, India tries outsourcing its outsourcing, IHT, 2007 Sep. 24 (one of the constants of the global economy has been companies moving tasks - and jobs - to India, where they could be done at lower cost; but rising wages for programmers here, a strengthening currency and companies' need for workers in their clients' time zones or for workers who speak languages other than English are challenging that model)
Richard Wray, Mobile rivals in mast venture, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 19 (Vodafone and Orange have finalised their UK network joint venture and will today announce they are looking for an outsourcing partner)
Dewi Cooke, 119 Ford jobs go offshore, The Age, 2007 Sep. 12 (more than 100 Ford manufacturing jobs have been outsourced and sent overseas)
Antoinette Odoi, Indian deal will create UK jobs, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (UK call centre group Telecom Service Centres is merging with Indian rival Hero in a deal valuing the business at around £40m)
Pay and Wealth(see also Outsourcing and in Social) up  down  top   on  back

UK personal wealth at £6 trillion, BBC, 2007 Sep. 28 (the wealth of UK households has been given a dramatic boost by rising house prices, says the Halifax bank)
Barry Fitzgerald, Chip heads off with $60m in shares, The Age, 2007 Sep. 27 (BHP Billiton's departing chief executive, Chip Goodyear, believes most Australians do not known how good they have it)
PA, Only $1bn? It's not enough for the US rich list, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 21 (a billion dollars is no longer enough to secure a place on Forbes' rich list of Americans)
Phillip Inman, Private equity chiefs warn on tax proposals, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 13 (the multibillion-pound industry would be forced to move abroad with the loss of thousands of jobs if the chancellor raised taxes on the personal wealth of private equity partners, report claims)
Mathew Murphy, Qantas chiefs' pay takes off, The Age, 2007 Sep. 11 (in the year of the spectacular collapse of the $11.1 billion takeover bid for Qantas, key airline executives received performance-based payments that almost tripled the previous year's)
Larry Elliott, When money lenders cry for hand-outs, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 10 (Bank of England fears that fire fighting could unleash a wave of pyromania)
Nick Mathiason, Tax loophole for rich costs £4.3bn, Observer, 2007 Sep. 9 (TUC leader urges PM to scrap non-domicile tax laws that allow the super-rich to pay virtually no tax on their fortunes)
John Carvel, The figure that shows it pays to be a man, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 5 (gap between pay of average male and female managers; gender pay gap among managers on rise again; number of senior women quitting also on increase)
Privatisation and Private Equity up  down  top   on  back

Private equity: A boom in bust-ups, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (as more deals turn ugly, buy-out firms rethink their approach to investing and their relations with backers)
Farrah Tomazin, State looks to school partnerships, The Age, 2007 Sep. 26 (Victoria could get schools built through public-private partnerships under a push by Premier John Brumby)
Marie dela Rama, Aged care money may be heading in wrong direction, The Age, 2007 Sep. 17 (private equity's dominance of aged care may bring pain despite the gain)
Broadband internet: Wiring rural America, Economist, 2007 Sep. 15 (a public-private partnership success)
Nils Pratley, Treasury must ignore private equity threat, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 14 (shock, horror, the private equity industry thinks 'dire consequences' could follow if its personal tax advantages are fiddled with)
Phillip Inman, Private equity chiefs warn on tax proposals, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 13 (the multibillion-pound industry would be forced to move abroad with the loss of thousands of jobs if the chancellor raised taxes on the personal wealth of private equity partners, report claims)
Mathew Murphy, Victoria to benefit from NSW energy, The Age, 2007 Sep. 13 (the privatisation of electricity retailers and generators in NSW could result in lower energy prices in Victoria)
Naomi Klein, The erasing of Iraq, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 11 (America failed the war-torn country through a disastrous programme of privatisation)
Stephen Moynihan, Taxpayers facing big ticket bill, The Age, 2007 Sep. 6 (Victorian taxpayers could be liable for millions of dollars in compensation to the operators of Melbourne's train and tram networks)
George Monbiot, This great free-market experiment is more like a corporate welfare scheme, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 4 (a hospital in Coventry lays bare the deceit of neoliberal logic: staff cuts, ward closures and millions to the financiers)
Jason Dowling, Profits siphoned off as water bills rise, The Age, 2007 Sep. 2 (as Melbourne faces rising water bills to pay for new infrastructure, the State Government will be siphoning off hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from Victoria's water companies)
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The magazine industry: Out of vogue, Economist, 2007 Sep. 29 (although healthier than newspapers, consumer magazines have problems)
Jeff Jarvis, Clicks and links will bring all the walls tumbling down, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 24 (the New York Times has just abandoned its two-year effort to charge for content online, taking down TimesSelect, the pay wall around its columnists and much of its archives; so content is now and forever free)
Jesse Hogan, AFR to unveil new, less Flash website, The Age, 2007 Sep. 21 (publisher Fairfax Media is preparing to unveil its latest attempt at resolving persistent criticism of The Australian Financial Review website)
Jesse Hogan, Narrow broadsheet size on hold for Fairfax papers, The Age, 2007 Sep. 21 (a multimillion-dollar project to reduce the width of Fairfax Media's metropolitan broadsheet newspapers is uncertain after its deployment was postponed)
Steve Almond, Meanwhile: For whom the blog tolls, IHT, 2007 Sep. 19 (virtually every newspaper and magazine has launched a blog - or 12 - at this point, in a frantic effort to attract those young readers who don't "do" paper)
Andreas Tzortzis, Real publishing lessons from the virtual world, IHT, 2007 Sep. 16 (along with real-life media like Reuters and the BBC and virtual-only rivals like The Second Life Herald and The Metaverse Messenger, The AvaStar is part of a bustling news gathering culture in the large and unwieldy virtual community)
Brad Stone, Are books passé? Web giants envision the next chapter, IHT, 2007 Sep. 6 (two new offerings this fall are set to test whether consumers really want to replace a technology that has reliably served humankind for hundreds of years: the paper book)
Simon Thiel, Napster settlements drag Bertelsmann to a net loss, IHT, 2007 Sep. 4 (Bertelsmann, the largest European media company, posted a first-half loss on Tuesday because of legal settlements stemming from its funding of the music-download service Napster and lower profit at its book publishing and music units)
AP, Google starts paying for news, The Age, 2007 Sep. 3 (Google has begun hosting material produced by four news services on its own website instead of only sending readers to other destinations)
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Rory Carroll, Economic crisis boost to health of Cubans, Guardian, 2007 Sep. 27 (Cuba's economic crisis in the 1990s inadvertently obliged them to eat less and exercise more, according to research)
Catherine Deveny, Spend, spend, spend. It's no way to happiness, The Age, 2007 Sep. 26 (you'll see them in shopping centres every weekend seeking sedation: people trying to buy their next high)
Julia Medew, Gambling addict lured, The Age, 2007 Sep. 26 (Crown Casino lured a gambling addict back to its elite rooms after the man asked to be banned from the venue and confessed to staff he had fraudulently obtained money to fund his habit, a court is told)
Nassim Khadem, Fondness for debt paves way for major recession, The Age, 2007 Sep. 18 (Australia's unsustainable appetite for debt has put us on a path to recession, and the impact of a slowdown similar to America's would be more severe here)
Lionel Frost, The challenge of an ageing population, The Age, 2007 Sep. 12 (retirement villages will have a major social and economic impact)
Janice Warman, How fat became a weighty problem for corporate world, Observer, 2007 Sep. 9 (the obesity epidemic will cost Britain £7bn by 2010; now firms are taking action to combat the problem themselves)
Business and society: In search of the good company, Economist, 2007 Sep. 8 (the debate about the social responsibilities of companies is heating up again)
Leon Gettler, Futurist sees way to end world woes, The Age, 2007 Sep. 4 (businesses will need to rethink their approach to growth and focus more on sustainability and innovation to save the planet, says futurist and author Thomas Homer-Dixon)