FRANCE DRIFTS INTO DEFLATION AS ECB "PEA-SHOOTER" FALLS SHORT / THE TELEGRAPH

France drifts into deflation as ECB 'pea-shooter' falls short The Bank of Italy warns that any further falls in prices at this sta...

CRIMINAL JUSTICE : AMERICA´S POLICE ON TRIAL / THE ECONOMIST

Criminal justice America’s police on trial The United States needs to overhaul its law-enforcement system Dec 13th 2014            ...

TORTURE AND THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE FAILURE / STRATFOR GLOBAL INTELLIGENCE

Torture and the U.S. Intelligence Failure By George Friedman April 20, 2009 | 17:47 GMT The Obama administration published a serie...

STEPHEN HAWKING : SUPERHERO OF SCIENCE / THE FINANCIAL TIMES

December 12, 2014 6:18 pm Stephen Hawking: Superhero of science Clive Cookson Get Alerts Start alerts Get an email alert for Cl...

PUTIN´S RULES OF ATTRACTION / PROJECT SYNDICATE

Putin’s Rules of Attraction . Joseph S. Nye . DEC 12, 2014   CAMBRIDGE – Russian President Vladimir Putin’s covert aggression i...

GREEK CANDIDATE WILLING TO CALL EUROPEAN LEADERS´ BLUFF / THE TELEGRAPH

Greek candidate willing to call European leaders’ bluff Alexis Tsipras told Greek voters as recently as last week that his government woul...

INEQUALITY AND THE AMERICAN CHILD / PROJECT SYNDICATE

Inequality and the American Child Joseph E. Stiglitz DEC 11, 2014   NEW YORK – Children, it has long been recognized, are a special...

POLICING : DON´T SHOOT / THE ECONOMIST

Policing Don’t shoot America’s police kill too many people. But some forces are showing how smarter, less aggressive policing gets resul...

WHEN THE MARKET MOVES FAST, STUFF BLOWS UP / JOHN MAULDIN´S THE TENTH MAN

When the Market Moves Fast, Stuff Blows Up By Jared Dillian December 11, 2014 One of my old rules of trading is that whenever a major...

JAPAN TURNS TABLES ON KORE INC. / THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Heard on the Street Japan Turns Tables on Korea Inc. By Aaron Back Dec. 11, 2014 6:14 a.m. ET The Bank of Japan’s swelling st...

BANK OF AMERICA SEES $50 OIL AS OPEC DIES / THE TELEGRAPH

Bank of America sees $50 oil as Opec dies "Our biggest worry is the end of the liquidity cycle. The Fed is done. The reach for yield ...