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Thursday, 23 December 2010
Application season...
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Every year, we see a similar pattern - applications to the ITFD program start slow in November, and then pick up from December onwards. Comp...
Saturday, 18 December 2010
Just how great is the euro for Germany?
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I am at a conference in Berlin on sovereign debt. Last night, at one of the many pleasant restaurants serving remarkably good food at reason...
world heritage
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The best buildings by Lluís Domènech i Montaner in Barcelona have just been designated a World Heritage Site. I always had a weak spot for h...
Friday, 10 December 2010
'tis the season ... for peddling PhDs
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What does faculty do all day? I know it's a question many students wonder about. In addition to running ITFD, the department made me pla...
Saturday, 4 December 2010
Spain believes in education...
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it pays its professors in a year what it pays its air traffic controllers in two weeks. And boy do they deliver service.
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
Investment bankers discover solution to the Euro debt problems
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The solutions spells M-O-N-E-Y. German money. Lots of it. The American journalist H.L. Mencken once joked that for every difficult problem, ...
Sunday, 28 November 2010
The bright side of the Irish crisis
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These days, it is easy to remember why economics used to be known as the "dismal science". The EU finance ministers are meeting to...
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