http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/ Thought du Jour Wed, 06 Jan 2010 08:29:49 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1677 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1677 [Martin Wolf has drafted another superb Wednesday column. He begins with these words:] What would have happened during the financial crisis if the euro had not Mon, 04 Jan 2010 07:28:11 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1676 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1676 I neglected to add the following message to the previous post: As a 'small l' liberal and follower of John Stuart Mill, I of course support the estate tax. Sun, 03 Jan 2010 16:14:20 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1675 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1675 [In the USA, thanks to GW Bush, the federal government no longer levies taxes on the estates of deceased citizens. Wealthy citizens who die in the years to Fri, 01 Jan 2010 12:44:23 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1674 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1674 [MIT economist Simon Johnson explains that the policies embraced by key members of Obama's economic team are opposite those they supported during the Asian Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:48:38 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1673 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1673 My wife and I are off to Tuscany for the holidays, so don't expect any posts until after the 4th of January. We have visited other regions of Italy, but never Mon, 21 Dec 2009 09:07:31 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1672 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1672 [The Financial Times today published a thorough if depressing description of the final hours of the Copenhagen conference.] It was an extraordinary sight: the Sun, 20 Dec 2009 13:00:38 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1671 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1671 A federal advisory panel [in the USA] recently set off a controversy by recommending that most women without special risk factors delay breast cancer screening Sun, 20 Dec 2009 11:20:06 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1670 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1670 [Zoologist Bernd Heinrich today focuses on biofuels, but his words apply equally to Joseph Heath's call for "a simple, cogent line of reasoning that defends Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:19:35 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1669 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1669 [T]he split infinitive ... isn't quite the perennial bugbear we imagine. [Jack] Lynch notes it has "come and gone through the history of the language". Popular Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:27:37 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1668 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1668 MYTH: User fees would stop waste and ensure better use of the healthcare system There's an old idea that frequently sparks debate: that patients rampantly Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:06:10 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1667 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1667 [Though completed in Brazil many years ago, this study may still be of some relevance. It explains my interest in John Kay's column today.] More than a quarter Wed, 16 Dec 2009 12:03:14 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1666 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1666 [But is R&D innovation? John Kay explains.] When we talk about innovation, we visualise men and women in white coats with test tubes and microscopes. Outside Tue, 15 Dec 2009 12:22:37 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1665 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1665 [Outrageous news from the USA.] Although Medicare is primarily an insurance program for older Americans and the disabled, it has since 1973 covered those with Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:41:27 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1664 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1664 As one Climategate e-mailer noted, we do not understand why global warming has paused lately: the models cannot account for it. But this is not for public Sun, 13 Dec 2009 06:35:12 GMT thought_du_jour http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1663 http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/thought_du_jour/message/1663 [Journalist Catherine Rampell asks why the government of the United States, following the lead of "nearly 150 other countries, in developed and developing