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The right message for a dark moment

economist.com — WHEN some horrible incident threatens to poison a country's social atmosphere, a single, well-judged sound-bite can make a huge difference; and the biter as well as...
Rickin Majithia Producer, BBC @rick_maj
RT @TheEconomist: When a horrible incident threatens to poison a country's social atmosphere, a single sound-bite can make a difference htt…
Nick Clark Anchor and Correspondent, Al Jazeera English @NickClarkAlJaz
econ.st/133wPfu An important time to choose your words
Ed Yong Freelance Journalist @edyong209
RT @TheEconomist: When a horrible incident threatens to poison a country's social atmosphere, a single sound-bite can make a difference htt…

The wages of sin

economist.com — MUST we pay for past sins? Michael Kinsley thinks so: I don't think suffering is good, but I do believe that we have to pay a price for past sins, and the longer we put it off, the higher the price will be. And future sufferers are not necessarily different people than the past and present sinners.
Michael Schrantz Online Editor, Steamboat Pilot @MLSchrantz
Michael Kinsley is mainly good for inspiring smarter bloggers to write very good posts. economist.com/blogs/freeexch…
Rex Nutting Money and Power Columnist, MarketWatch @RexNutting
Nice one from @ryanavent skewering argument that recessions are necessary and just payment for past economic sins. economist.com/blogs/freeexch…
Matthew Klein Columnist, Bloomberg View, Bloomberg News @Matthew_C_Klein
Worth reading this rejoinder to my latest column by @ryanavent: economist.com/blogs/freeexch…
Ryan Avent Economics Correspondent, The Economist @ryanavent
Hey Ryan, why don't you weigh in on whether we must pay for past economic sins, someone surely thought. economist.com/blogs/freeexch…

Bill O’Hagan | The Economist

economist.com — THE best sound in the world to Bill O'Hagan was the slow crescendo of sausages sizzling in a pan; the best smell, the charred skins of the same; the best sight, a glistening heaped plateful of the same, with mash; the best taste, a succulent tongue-teasing blend of minced lean pork, rolled oats, fresh eggs, sea-salt, chervil and winter savoury, generously dosed with real ale.
Jose Pagliery Small Business Reporter, CNN Money, CNN @Jose_Pagliery
RT @dlknowles: Lovely, lovely obituary in this week's Economist: economist.com/news/obituary/…
Greg Giroux Analyst and Reporter, Bloomberg News @greggiroux
RT @charlieNPR: The Economist obit on Bill O'Hagan, UK's Abe Froman, pioneer of Britain’s sausage renaissance (h/t @richarddeitsch) http://…
Charles Mahtesian Politics Editor, NPR @charlieNPR
The Economist obit on Bill O'Hagan, UK's Abe Froman, pioneer of Britain’s sausage renaissance (h/t @richarddeitsch) goo.gl/jmUKi
Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson Media Editor, Financial Times @Edgecliffe
RT @johnpmcdermott: Economist obit subject and the "pioneer of Britain’s sausage renaissance" = the new definition of a life well lived. h…
John McDermott Executive Comment Editor, Financial Times @johnpmcdermott
Economist obit subject and the "pioneer of Britain’s sausage renaissance" = the new definition of a life well lived. econ.st/Zir8wR
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Portuguese for the perplexed

economist.com — Inspired by a popular guide to Understanding the British, I've put together a few entries in a Foreigners' Guide to Understanding Brazilians. Portuguese speakers and Brazilianists are invited to add more in the comments.
Vincent Bevins Brazil Correspondent and Reporter, Financial Times @Vinncent
Absolutely amazing, again, from @HJoyceBrazil. What Brazilians say, and what they really mean - The Economist econ.st/13N06JY
Pan Yuk Emerging Markets Reporter, Financial Times @pyuk
Portuguese for the perplexed - economist.com/blogs/johnson/…
Donna Bowater Reporter, Telegraph @DonnaBow
Brazilians:I'm nearly there/Tô chegando Foreigners hear:He's nearly here Brazilians mean:I've set out RT@HJoyceBrazil econ.st/13N06JY
Ruxandra Guidi Reporter, KPCC @RuxandraGuidi
What Brazilians really mean: Não isn't just No, it's "absolutely never, not in a million years"! econ.st/13N06K0 (via @patricox)
Robert Greene Business Journalist, The Economist @lanegreene
Portuguese for the perplexed: what Brazilians say and mean, from our Sao Paulo correspondent. econ.st/13N06JY

Hobbling behind America

economist.com — EUROPEANS like to blame America for their crisis. But look at the numbers, and it is plain the euro zone has mishandled its response. Take growth: output in America has surpassed its pre-crisis peak and is growing; the euro zone has yet to make up the lost ground and is shrinking.
Colin Foote Burch Columnist, The Weekly Surge @cfburch4
RT @theeconomist: Looking at the numbers, it is plain the euro zone has mishandled its response to financial crisis econ.st/16eDI3q

The return of A.G.

economist.com — LAST November, Bob McDonald, the embattled boss of Procter & Gamble, invited three of his predecessors, Alan Lafley, John Pepper and Ed Artzt, to address a gathering of 250 senior managers as they wrestled with the challenges facing the world's biggest consumer-goods company.
Rohin Dharmakumar Senior Assistant Editor, Forbes India, Forbes @r0h1n
RT @mattbish: Steve Jobs, Howard Shultz triumphed 2nd time they ran the firm; Michael Dell didn't. Will AG Lafley win again at P&G? http://…
Matthew Bishop New York Bureau Chief, The Economist @mattbish
RT @JenniferRiel: "@mattbish: Can AG Lafley revive P&G a second time? My latest economist.com/blogs/schumpet…" My bet is yes.
Peter Himler @PeterHimler
RT @mattbish: Steve Jobs, Howard Shultz triumphed 2nd time they ran the firm; Michael Dell didn't. Will AG Lafley win again at P&G? http://…
Matthew Bishop New York Bureau Chief, The Economist @mattbish
Steve Jobs, Howard Shultz triumphed 2nd time they ran the firm; Michael Dell didn't. Will AG Lafley win again at P&G? economist.com/blogs/schumpet…
Chrystia Freeland Managing Director and Editor, Consumer News, Reuters @cafreeland
RT @mattbish: Can AG Lafley revive P&G a second time? My latest economist.com/blogs/schumpet…
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The week in American monetary policy

economist.com — Parsing the Federal Reserve by G.I. | WASHINGTON, D.C. The Federal Reserve left a lot of people scratching their heads this week. Between Chairman Ben Bernanke's testimony, and the release of the minutes to the May 1 st Federal Open Market Committee, investors were struggling to figure whether an end to easy monetary policy was nigh.
Greg Ip U.S. Economics Editor, The Economist @greg_ip
Nine things to know about the Fed and what we learned from it this week. My latest. econ.st/10RQlsh

Why Americans love the IRS

economist.com — America's Internal Revenue Service in numbersWHEN Barack Obama fired the acting head of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this month, he doubtless...
Ray Henry Reporter, Associated Press @rhenryAP
RT @TheEconomist: Daily chart: Today's chart shows America's Internal Revenue Service in numbers econ.st/10tnaga http://t.co/uokoilG…

Treasure islands in trouble

economist.com — LAST month McKeeva Bush, the ousted premier of the Cayman Islands, appeared in court to contest a string of charges, some stemming from alleged use of his government credit card in American casinos. His next date with the judge is in June.
Bill Faries Miami Bureau Chief, Bloomberg News @billfaries
The #Caribbean: Treasure islands in trouble | The Economist econ.st/1ab7z9m

The age of smart machines

economist.com — IN HIS first novel, "Player Piano" (1952), Kurt Vonnegut foresaw that industry might one day resemble a "stupendous Rube Goldberg machine" (or as Brits would say, a Heath Robinson contraption). His story describes a dystopia in which machines have taken over brain work as well as manual work, and a giant computer, EPICAC XIV, makes all the decisions.
Aparna Mukherjee Contributor, Wall Street Journal @aparnamuk
RT @commons11: RT @erikbryn: The Economist's Schumpeter discusses the age of smart machines & its impl'ns for work + inequality: http://t.c…

Nigeria’s northern insurgency

economist.com — SOLDIERS sit sweltering in bunkers made from sandbags on the streets of Maiduguri, a town in north-eastern Nigeria at the centre of a four-year Islamist revolt. Around them, young boys on clanking bicycles carve through sand blown in from the Sahara, which has been slowly burying a town that was once, long ago, a thriving Islamic trading centre.
Xan Rice West Africa Correspondent, Financial Times @xanrice
RT @gillianparker3: #Nigeria’s northern insurgency: A city under siege | The Economist econ.st/1aaO68G
Asteris Masouras @asteris
RT @t_mcconnell: Maiduguri, at the heart of northern #Nigeria's violent insurgency, faces "desertification, literal and figurative" http://…
Tristan McConnell Freelance Journalist @t_mcconnell
Maiduguri, at the heart of northern #Nigeria's violent insurgency, faces "desertification, literal and figurative" econ.st/1adOvr7

Englishness: Identity parade | The Economist

economist.com — IN 1924, speaking on St George's Day, the then prime minister, Stanley Baldwin, gave thanks that for once he could refer to England "without some fellow at the back of the room shouting out: 'Britain!'" Even then, the tendency of the English to forget the other nations of the United Kingdom irritated the politically correct.
Daniel Knowles Reporter, The Economist @dlknowles
RT @LabourHistory: Interesting map in @TheEconomist showing pattern of people identifying as English in the census: econ.st/10SYscc
Sid Verma Associate Editor, Euromoney.com @_SidVerma
"Blacks & Asians are far more likely to consider themselves British [rather than English]".Yep.Good story @dlknowles econ.st/14GiXcI
Daniel Knowles Reporter, The Economist @dlknowles
On the English or British distinction: economist.com/news/britain/2…

Business in Cuba

economist.com — AFTER the 1959 revolution Fidel Castro declared that golf was a "bourgeois" hobby, unsuitable for communists. Most of the island's courses were built on, and no new ones have been developed since. But the government has just given the go-ahead to a new golf resort, in what it claims is "the start of a whole new policy to increase the presence of golf in Cuba".
Patrick Oppmann Correspondent, CNN @CNN_Oppmann
Politics, corruption and golf in #Cuba via @TheEconomist economist.com/news/americas/…

The solace of quantum

economist.com — CRYPTOGRAPHY is an arms race between Alice and Bob, and Eve. These are the names cryptographers give to two people who are trying to communicate privily, and to a third who is trying to intercept and decrypt their conversation. Currently, Alice and Bob are ahead-just. But Eve is catching up.
Roger Highfield Editor, New Scientist @RogerHighfield
Cryptography: the solace of quantum economist.com/news/science-a…

Christianity, history and liberty

economist.com — TODAY IS the date when many Christians commemorate Emperor Constantine the Great and his mother Helen, central figures in the late Roman empire's conversion to...
Ania Wieckowski Managing Editor, Harvard Business Review @agwieckowski
RT @TheEconomist: Historians still argue about the significance of the Roman Empire's conversion to Christianity econ.st/14RS3Ov