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Last Saturday, the White House announced the launch of Recovery.org, the U.S. government's official website providing access to information on how the Recovery Act money is spent and allowing for...
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Narrating our way out of the crisis
What have the Obama victory and the financial crisis to do with Marxism and narrative? A lot, according to the Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. It is unlikely that the financial meltdown of 2008 will...
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When activism, regulations and the market march in the same direction
Following their intention to develop a national nuclear energy plan, the Energy Ministry of Turkey launched a call for bids to build the Country's first nuclear power plant. Just two days after a spectacular...
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Nuclear power financial arithmetics
Remarkable post about the financial feasibility of the nuclear power plan promoted by the Berlusconi government (DL n.112, 25/6/2008, art. 7), written by an experienced (although anonymous) manager who...
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Graph or Grid?
The analogy is striking, and the coincidence as well. I have recently had a chat with Anthony Candiello (from INFN's Grid Computing Technology Transfer Office) about one of the most fascinating trends...
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Virtual Banks
Last summer, Second Life got a lot of bad press because of financial cracks. The most widely known one was the case of Ginko Financial, which had offered a spectacular interest rate around 40% a...