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Charles Simonyi, former Microsoft, International Space Station, at Charlie Rose Show. 2012


Scars of the Boom: Time for the bulldozers? Frontline, RTE, Ireland. 2012


Rajat M. Nag, Asian Development Bank on : Asia's Future: What lies ahead? IIEA 2012


Dean Tenerelli, T. Rowe Price's European stock fund manager on Wealthtrack. 2012


Charlie Munger, CNBC. 2012


Dani Rodrik, Harvard, on the multipolar world. PS. 2012

• An interesting radio inteview with former Greece Prime Minister George Papandreou. RTE 20/5

• Dr. John Coates,Univ. of Cambridge, the trader who became a neuroscientist, has written the book: The Hour Between Dog and Wolf. Here Mr. Coates in a speech at Daedalus Trust Research café. 19/5

• Jean Claude Trichet on: Challenges for the advanced economies and for the european monetary union. PIIE18/5

• Creating small spaces of "zero" gravity, MIT 17/5

• Are the left wing politicians in Greece causing harm to less well people in Spain and Italy? As the bond yields rise in those countries the government has less money to spend on the public sector, as they need to spend more on interest on their sovereign loans. At the same time the Germans- whom Syriza  in Greece don't like- are becoming richer due to lower bond yields....17/5

• Lessons from the Greek Debt Exchange, by Charles Dallara, Institute of International Finance. IIEA. 16/5

• Permanent TSB has  choosen controversial Oliver Wyman for aid in the re-organising of Permanent TSB. II 16/5

• The latest annual report(pdf) on the Portuguese economy from Bank of Portugal. One of the findings is that the deposits in Portuguese banks increased last year. 16/5

• A primer on 3:D printing, by Lisa Harouni, TED. 15/5

• The latest data on the Portuguese GDP. It will be interesting to see if the GDP contraction peaked at around 3% in q4, 2011. That would mean a contraction of less than the estimation of 3% in 2012.  The q2 figures, released in summer, will be interesting. INE 15/5

• Contrary to a lot of media out there, I believe that the present turmoil just is another bump on the road. The Greece situation will continue to be hard on the people in Greece, but the alternative with an exit out of the euro and complete default seems to be much worser. I believe they will stick with the program. The IMF has a lot of responsibility, by setting up the program, so it better work as promised! 14/5

• Portugal and China: The rise of a new strategic geography? by(pdf) Paulo Gorjão,
  Portuguese Institute of International Relations and Security (IPRIS). 13/5

• Restoring Stability and Growth in the Portuguese Economy, by(pdf) governor of the Bank of Portugal, Carlos da Silva Costa. 11/5

• While the "trouble" pupils in the class are in a mess as usual, it is promising to note that Poul Thomsen from IMF seems to be upbeat about Portugal. 11/5

• "The full supportive impact of the three-year LTROs will need time to unfold. Any assessment of their impact on the economy can be only preliminary in nature at this stage. However, the data available to date give some encouraging signals." Full text, Peter Praet, ECB 10/5

• Top executives from CBS, ABC, CNN, and NBC discusses the future of news media, CFR // Martin Wolf, FT, on the eurozone crisis. PIIE 10/5

• Abby Cohen, senior strategist at GS, on(video) the bumpy road ahead, FT 10/5

• Investing in stock is a timeless game. Value investor Irving Kahn- 106 years old- is still active. Here is a video portrait of him from 2010. 9/5

• Fed has allowed several Chinese banks to start up in USA. 9/5

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